Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 26 March 1999:
Vol. 283. no. 5410, pp. 1999 - 2001
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5410.1999
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

News Focus

PEER REVIEW:
NIH Invites Activists Into the Inner Sanctum

Bruce Agnew

Under pressure from advocacy groups to open up the grant-review process, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is adding lay members to some peer-review "study sections"--particularly those dealing with potential therapies. Some scientists worry that NIH is "diluting" expert advice, but others who have served on study sections with laypeople say that the lay members serve as a "reality check," raising issues that scientists wouldn't have thought about, and that by serving on study sections they can become allies of scientists rather than critics.

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Balancing Uncertain Risks and Benefits in Human Subjects Research.
R. Barke (2009)
Science Technology Human Values 34, 337-364
   Abstract »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)