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Inside the Secret World of NIH SBIR Peer Review

23 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker outlines the NIH SBIR peer review process, emphasizing three core functions. First, reviewers assess how well a proposed project aligns with the funding agency’s mission and goals. Second, they evaluate the potential public‑health impact of the applicant’s prior SBIR work and the proposed research. Finally, the process is designed to deliver detailed feedback to all applicants—awardees and non‑awardees alike—by critiquing the application across five standard criteria: significance, innovation, investigators, approach, and resources/facilities.

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Secondly, the peer review process is meant to evaluate the relevancy of your proposed research efforts to the goals of that funding agency. Here, reviewers are evaluating if you were successful in your SBIR efforts, how would that impact the public health? And finally, the peer review process was designed so that reviewers can give thorough feedback to all the applicants, whether or not their SBIR application was awarded. Here, the reviewers are supposed to give feedback and comment on the strength and weaknesses of the significance, the innovation, the investigators, the approach, and the resources and facilities abilities of your SBIR application.