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Salvatore La RosaMember
Dear all,
I agree with what Patricia mentioned about how variable the review process is.
We have a budget-determined # of awards, but normally more meritorious grants than we can fund.
Our experience has been that looking at the overall scorings, there is no pre-determined cut off on what the pay-line is. Meaning that that line is dynamic and changes every year depending on the scores we received.
Most of the times there is a natural selection at the top and between the top scoring applications and the rest of the pack there is gap. We always look at this gap, spend most of the time during the review call to see if any applications that did not score well deserve to be included in the top selection, despite the final scoring. After we are comfortable with the decision of what stay at the top and deserve funding, the scoring number is not the only factor to decide what to fund. We select the application deserving funding not only based on the overall scoring, but also based on the overall portfolio of grants, diversifying and making sure the selection of what we fund fulfills our mission (almost in line with what the programmatic review does for CDMRP). The rest of the top-scoring unfunded proposals fall in a contingency list that we use until the announcement of the next grant cycle to propose to other organizations or donors to fund (with the approval of the applicant).
Salvatore La Rosa, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer
Kidney Cancer Association
Office 847.332.1051 x 121Web http://www.kidneycancer.org
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