Leppert Phyllis C
Reproductive Sciences Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7510, USA.
Fertil Steril. 2004 Feb;81(2):279-86. doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.10.006.
To discuss the new peer review system at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to present the process undertaken to accomplish these changes, with an emphasis on the reproductive sciences.
A discussion of the many NIH committees and their composition and reports leading to the changes in peer review affecting the reproductive sciences.
RESULT(S) AND CONCLUSION(S): The Center for Scientific Review (CSR), which reviews grants for all NIH Institutes, will initiate the Cellular, Molecular, and Integrative Reproduction, the Integrative and Clinical Endocrinology and Reproduction, and the Pregnancy and Neonatology study sections in February 2004. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)'s Division of Scientific Review has the following subcommittees, which started review in July 2003: Pediatrics; Developmental Biology; Biobehavior and Behavior Sciences; Population Science; Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Biology; Reproduction, Andrology, and Gynecology; and Function, Integration, and Rehabilitation Science.
探讨美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)的新同行评审系统,并介绍为实现这些变革所采取的过程,重点关注生殖科学领域。
对NIH的众多委员会及其组成和报告进行讨论,这些报告促成了影响生殖科学的同行评审的变革。
负责审查NIH所有研究所拨款申请的科学审查中心(CSR)将于2004年2月启动细胞、分子与整合生殖、整合与临床内分泌学及生殖、妊娠与新生儿学研究小组。美国国立儿童健康与人类发展研究所(NICHD)的科学审查部门设有以下小组委员会,于2003年7月开始审查工作:儿科学;发育生物学;生物行为与行为科学;人口科学;产科学与母胎生物学;生殖、男科学与妇科学;以及功能、整合与康复科学。