NIH Early Career Reviewer Program

I wanted to draw your attention to the NIH Center for Scientific Review’s Early Career Reviewer (ECR) Program. If eligible, it is an opportunity to improve your grant proposal writing skills by experiencing first-hand how grant applications are evaluated. You will also network with accomplished researchers, and learn how applications are reviewed and scored.

To qualify for the ECR program, you must:

• Have at least 2 years’ experience as a full-time faculty member or researcher in a similar role. Post-doctoral fellows are not eligible.
• Show evidence of an active, independent research program.  Examples include publications, presentations, institutional research support, patents, acting as supervisor of student projects.
• Have at least 2 recent senior-authored research publications in peer-reviewed journals in the last 2 years. In press publications are considered and author position can be as single author, corresponding author, or first or last author.
• Have not served on a CSR study section in a role other than mail reviewer. (Mail reviews do not include participation in the meeting.) Review service at other agencies or at other NIH institutes/centers are not disqualifiers.
• Current funding is not required. (Anyone who has received an R01 award is over-qualified and could be considered as a temporary reviewer.)

For more information: https://public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers/BecomeAReviewer/ECR