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A lottery for funding NIH grants?

April 19, 2016 By Chris Pickett

Peer review, as conducted by the National Institutes of Health, is not great at determining relative merit among the top 20 to 30 percent of grants. A new paper by Ferric Fang and Arturo Cassadevall expands on their previous proposal to fund meritorious grants by a lottery system rather than continuing to use the rankings determined by peer review. This system would depend on peer review to sort grants into meritorious and non-meritorious bins, but then rely on a lottery to determine which meritorious grants receive funding. 

Others have voiced concerns about this approach and raised important questions. What do you think?

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: biomedical research enterprise, NIH grants, peer review, science funding

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