Peer review at NIH: a conversation with CSR director Toni Scarpa.

65 The stated objective of NIH’s efforts to enhance peer review is to “Fund the best science, by the best scientists, with the least amount of administrative burden.” In 2007 NIH began a formal review of its peer review system. This led to the development of a number of new policies and procedures, including the introduction in January 2010 of a shortened and restructured grant application. The APS Public Affairs Committee asked Center for Scientific Review Director Toni Scarpa to provide the readers of The Physiologist with his insight into several key aspects of these peer review changes.