1. Richard Nakamura, Ph.D. October 2014 CSR Update for CSRAC

3. Number of Applications Received by Fiscal Year

4. Council asked for an all A0 plus application control trial NIH decided A0 > A1>A0>A1 Will not affect FY2014 numbers Major concern under both policies was application numbers and time to award Applications up 14% for CSR for initial cycle Initial numbers for next Council also up Submission policy

5. Success rates Time to award – Queuing Work loads of reviewers and SROs SRG shopping Submission policy – Need to watch

6. Highly correlated to chances of award or Success Rate -Reliability and continuity of funding Concerns of senior scientists, early career scientists and the fate of best and brightest ACD, SMRB, editorials and commentaries Issues beyond funding: Stature of reviewers (our funded scientists) Culture of peer review Editorial board style review and Alternative platforms Concerns about peer review

7. Good ol’ days It is all about success rate What changes are possible? Culture of peer review (ad hoc increase) Difference in the science – memory effects Time to award Concerns about peer review

10. Application numbers Review requests Reviewer opinions Program opinions Intra - IRG rankings Citation/RCR results Evaluating study section performance

11. America Competes Challenge Survey of new PIs Anonymizing applications Text evaluation Evaluation of “ND” applications Award disparity projects

12. Post meeting ranking pilot Reliability Other Pilots and Studies

13. Questions? CSRDirector@csr.nih.gov