Welcome the New Director for the NIH Center for Scientific Review – Dr. Noni Byrnes
It gives me
enormous pleasure to extend my warm congratulations to a friend and colleague, Noni H. Byrnes, Ph.D., for her recent selection as the
new Director for the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR).
CSR serves a
vital role. Not only does CSR manage the receipt and referral of all grant applications
for NIH and for other parts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
dedicated CSR staff also oversee the peer review of approximately 75 percent of
the more than 80,000 grant applications NIH receives each year. One can find
more data on NIH peer review “in” the NIH Data Book.
An analytical
chemist by training, Dr. Byrnes first joined CSR in 2000 as a Scientific Review
Officer. Over the past 18 years, she has taken on increasing
degrees of leadership and responsibility, most recently serving as Acting
Director following Dr. Richard Nakamura’s retirement.
Dr. Byrnes has led a number of high-profile efforts. She oversaw peer review
activities related to American Reinvestment and Recovery Act
Challenge Grants, the NIH Director’s Common Fund, and the All-of-Us program.
She helped launch a new framework to
increase collaborations with the scientific community and continuously evaluate
all of CSR’s 178 study sections. She spurred on the creation of CSR’s Review Matters Blog,
a Facebook page, and a Twitter
account to communicate important issues around peer
review. She has an extraordinarily deep
knowledge and understa...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: Open Mike CSR Peer review Source Type: funding
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