Preamble:
In an ongoing effort to improve our review and endorsement process of grants and manuscripts NCER executive has developed a more transparent and time sensitive process for review and endorsement.
The endorsement process is outlined in the flow diagram below. There are two components to endorsement:
- Feedback by two NCER reviewers to improve scientific rigor, which will be supplied to the author of the grant.
The author of the grant is to inform the NCER chair whether they’re looking for comments just related to scientific rigor to improve their overall grants scientific rigour for submission or are looking for letter of endorsement (to include in the body of the grant), and/or a letter of collaboration to support the grant.
Process:
Timeline:
- 3 months prior to Project Grant deadlines for CIHR, an email will be sent out to all NCER researchers.
- June (in advance of Fall Project Grant deadline in September)
- November (in advance of Spring Project Grant deadline in March)
- The grant should be submitted a minimum 2 months in advance of the grant date. (The grant may be submitted in any stage of development for review.)
- NCER commits to review and provide feedback within 1 month of grant deadline.
- Letter of endorsement or collaboration are to be requested at the time of submission.