Responding to the need for better expertise to assess multidisciplinary grant applications, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is inviting a select cohort of researchers to serve as retained reviewers for complex proposals.

The NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR) in Bethesda, Maryland is taking a page from academic journals and recruiting more than 2,000 scientists to serve on its equivalent of an editorial board. Affiliates of this ‘College of CSR Reviewers’ will act as first-stage experts for translational and other multifaceted research topics by providing written critiques of up to 12 applications a year. (Click here to continue reading; subscription required)

Addendum: After Nature Medicine went to press, John Raymond was invited to join the College of CSR Reviewers. Congrats John!