Center for Scientific Review 2022-2027 Strategic Plan

Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of NIH Center for Scientific Review Guest post by Noni Byrnes, originally released on the NIH Center for Scientific Review’s Review Matters blog I am pleased to announce the release of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) 2022-2027 Strategic Plan. CSR is entrusted with most of the peer review that enables NIH to support a broad range of biomedical research. Our primary goal, to ensure that peer review identifies the strongest, most promising science, depends upon an evaluation process that is fair, independent, expert, timely and free from inappropriate influences. This plan delineates a forward-looking framework comprising five overarching goals that organize CSR’s current and future initiatives in support of our important mission. Goal 1: Maintain scientific review groups that provide appropriate scientific coverage and review settings for all of NIH science. Goal 2: Further develop a large cadre of diverse, well-trained, and scientifically qualified experts to serve as reviewers. Goal 3: Further develop an outstanding, engaged, and diverse staff. Goal 4: Implement changes to the peer review process to make it more fair, effective, and efficient. Goal 5: Achieve our mission through transparency, engagement with the scientific community and a data-driven approach to decision-making. In developing and finalizing the plan, CSR sought and received broad input from the CSR Advisory Council as well as the wider extramural scientific communit...
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