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rivkaOn May 16th, I got an e-mail from NIH telling me that my grant application had been assigned to a study section, and that if I went to the NIH eRA Commons website I would be able to log in and see the details.
Two institutes at NIH were involved in the specific request for proposals I responded to: the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Nursing Research. When I logged onto eRA Commons, I discovered that my grant had been assigned to the NINR, which probably made the most sense. I downloaded the list of study section members (volunteer scientists who review proposals made to NIH). I looked the various members up to try to figure out who would be asked to review my proposal, and what the section members were likely to think of psychological research. (This is an utterly pointless exercise, because there's nothing you can do with the information. But all the researchers I know do it anyway.)
I also noticed with nervous excitement that the study section was scheduled to meet on June 14th. I marked it on our office calendar. And I waited for the 14th with slightly nauseated anticipation.
See, a couple of days after my study section meets, my priority score will be made available to me on the eRA Commons website. Actual funding decisions won't be made until the fall, but once I know my priority score I'll have a sense of whether funding is likely, possible, or out of the question.
It's a big deal.
I logged on today to see if maybe, perhaps, just by chance, they already had the priority scores up. And I saw: Review date 7/12/07. Because they moved me to a different study section. An HIV-specific one: "Behavioral and Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS." Which makes perfect sense, and everything, it's just that I had no idea that I'd been moved... and now I have to wait another month for my score.
Argh.
Two institutes at NIH were involved in the specific request for proposals I responded to: the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Nursing Research. When I logged onto eRA Commons, I discovered that my grant had been assigned to the NINR, which probably made the most sense. I downloaded the list of study section members (volunteer scientists who review proposals made to NIH). I looked the various members up to try to figure out who would be asked to review my proposal, and what the section members were likely to think of psychological research. (This is an utterly pointless exercise, because there's nothing you can do with the information. But all the researchers I know do it anyway.)
I also noticed with nervous excitement that the study section was scheduled to meet on June 14th. I marked it on our office calendar. And I waited for the 14th with slightly nauseated anticipation.
See, a couple of days after my study section meets, my priority score will be made available to me on the eRA Commons website. Actual funding decisions won't be made until the fall, but once I know my priority score I'll have a sense of whether funding is likely, possible, or out of the question.
It's a big deal.
I logged on today to see if maybe, perhaps, just by chance, they already had the priority scores up. And I saw: Review date 7/12/07. Because they moved me to a different study section. An HIV-specific one: "Behavioral and Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS." Which makes perfect sense, and everything, it's just that I had no idea that I'd been moved... and now I have to wait another month for my score.
Argh.
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Date: 2007-06-15 07:50 pm (UTC)