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Science 1 September 2006:
Vol. 313. no. 5791, p. 1217
DOI: 10.1126/science.313.5791.1217b
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Seeking brevity, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) aims to shorten grant applications. Reviewers of NIH's standard R01 application must currently wade through 25 pages with unlimited appendices--longer than at any other major funding agency. At a meeting of the NIH Center for Scientific Review's advisory council this week, NIH staff said they were considering a limit of 15 pages with no appendices. Biologist Keith Yamamoto of the University of California, San Francisco, suggested seven pages with emphasis on innovation instead of preliminary results. NIH will request input on the issue this fall.




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