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The mission of the Center for Scientific Review (CSR) is to see that NIH grant applications receive fair, independent, expert, and timely scientific reviews — free from inappropriate influences — so NIH can fund the most promising research.

Power of NIH Peer Review

Scientific and health breakthroughs are heralded in the press almost every day. You often can trace them back—directly or indirectly—to one or more NIH peer review groups that found promise in an application.

Breakthroughs through Peer Review

Scientific and health breakthroughs can often be traced back to one or more NIH peer review groups. To illustrate this, we share these accounts.

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