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>>Narrator: If you are
an emerging biomedical or
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behavioral researcher, consider
applying for our Early Career
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Reviewer Program.
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The Center for Scientific Review
at the National Institutes of
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Health developed this program to
help you jump-start your career
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by giving you some experience
reviewing grant applications.
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Early Career Reviewers or ECRs
get an insider's view of the NIH
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grant application
review process.
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They develop skills
needed to be expert reviewers.
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They network with distinguished
scientists and they enrich the
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pool of future NIH reviewers.
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The feedback from our
ECRs has been impressive.
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But don't take my word for it.
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Listen to what they have to say.
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>>Eleanor Seaton: I would say it
was an awesome experience...
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In terms of thinking
about grant proposals,
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preparing grant proposals
and how they are reviewed,
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and also meeting some of the key
people -some of the key movers
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and shakers in the field.
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>>Craig Nunemaker: Anybody's
who is junior faculty has got to
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sign-up for this thing.
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Because it's an
eye-opening experience.
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I thought it was incredibly
beneficial and a great way to
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sort of ease your way into the
peer review process at the NIH.
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>>Narrator: How hard was it
to review the applications?
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>>Judith Altarejos: I think it's
natural to feel nervous about
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reviewing grant applications
because it is such an important
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job.
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But I do feel that I had
sufficient training from my
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previous experiences, as
well as my current position,
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to actually review
the grant applications.
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And I was assigned grant
applications that were within my
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area of expertise that I felt
very comfortable reviewing.
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After you get the
first one done,
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you feel kind of like "yes I
am definitely qualified to do
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this."
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>>Narrator: What was
the review meeting like?
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>>Ehsan Jabbarzadeh: The
spirit of the meeting was very
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positive.
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And that was a surprise.
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Because, you might think
that people would argue about
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proposals.
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But it was very positive.
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There were discussions
among the panelists,
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but the whole concern of
the panel is to identify good
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science and also provide
constructive feedback.
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>>Daniel Enquobahrie:
Participating in this program
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really helped me appreciate the
difficult task reviewers have
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making sure that good are
decisions are made that really
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promote the science.
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They have open minds and try
to get as much information as
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possible about each of the
applications they review and
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make sure they understand what
investigators have in mind when
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they apply for funding.
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>>Eleanor Seaton: The thing that
impressed me the most was the
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consistency I heard in
terms of the reviews.
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Despite the fact that
the reviewers had diverse
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backgrounds, expertise, and even
disciplines there seems to be a
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great amount of consistency in
how grants were being reviewed
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and discussed.
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I just think it confirms
the objective nature of the
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scientific process that
we're all striving to achieve.
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>>Narrator: What did you
learn about peer review?
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>>Ehsan Jabbarzadeh: In this
climate of funding writing a
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strong proposal with a
strong written impact,
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significance, and innovation
is extremely important for
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assistant professors -- for
young investigators like myself.
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And I believe this Program
really helped me understand how
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to strike a
balance between details,
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significance and other parts of
the proposal and how to present
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my ideas.
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>>Craig Nunemaker: You really
need to be able to communicate
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why what you're doing is
important and why it should,
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therefore, be of utmost priority
to the folks in that room.
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You know these are people that
are coming from very different
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backgrounds, and you really
need be able to convince,
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certainly, the people who have
reviewed your grant directly
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-but then really everybody
else in the room --that this is
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something that's
worth putting money into.
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And so to me, more than anything
it was simply: sell what you're
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doing and explain
why it's important.
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>>Narrator: How do you think
being an ECR will help you?
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>>Eleanor Seaton: The best thing
about being in an Early Career
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Reviewer was hearing the
conversation around how grants
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are reviewed in terms of
criteria for the investigator or
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in the investigator
team, significance,
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innovation.
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All of that was really good for
me because I never achieved an
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NIH funded grant before.
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So I think the best part is
that it will help me with future
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grants because now I have a good
idea of what people are looking
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for.
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>>Judith Altarejos: I think
having the opportunity to
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actually experience the review
process will help my career
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because it will help me become
a more effective grant writer.
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I understand, now,
what our target audience,
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which is the grant reviewers,
what they're looking for and
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what the scoring criteria are
and how grantsmanship can really
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be important for them
to get your message.
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And so I think this program
will really help me succeed at
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getting a grant.
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>>Craig Nunemaker: I had an
opportunity to meet a whole 'lot
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of different folks from
different backgrounds,
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from different areas,
different Institutions.
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Being able to listen to
grants being presented from the
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perspective of the reviewers in
all these different fields was
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really valuable in terms of
getting an idea of how to
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properly form your ideas so
that they can be communicated to
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folks who don't necessarily
know your branch of research
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particularly well.
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>>Narrator: Who should
apply and how do you apply?
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We are looking for researchers
who have a faculty position,
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or equivalent,
who have an active,
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independent research
program, who are published in
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peer-reviewed research journals
and have not reviewed for NIH.
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You don't necessarily need to
have NIH or equivalent funding.
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Visit our Web site at
www.csr.nih.gov and apply
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online.
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We want to hear from you and
help jump-start your research
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career.
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>>Eleanor Seaton: I think it's
invaluable for junior scholars
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like myself.
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I think it's
invaluable for minority,
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ethnic junior scholars...
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again people who are trying
to make their way into the
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pipeline...
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So I hope more individuals like
myself can take advantage of it.
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>>Judith Altarejos: In this day
and age you really have to take
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your career in your own hands.
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