Target Your Application

Three Tools to Help Direct Your Application to the Best Place for Review and Funding

1. Use NIH RePORTER to locate funded applications in your field and discover:

• The scientific review groups (located in Project Information) in which they were reviewed.
• The NIH Institutes and Centers that fund this field of research.
• The program officers who can guide you before submission and after the results of the review.

You can use the Matchmaker function or a text search.

2. Use CSR's Assisted Referral Tool (ART) to match your abstract or specific aims to a study section/scientific review group.

3. Use the Assignment Request Form in your application to:

• Suggest assignment to an Institute or Center that might be interested in funding your application (e.g., NCI, NIAID).
• Suggest a study section/review group assignment. All suggestions will be considered; however, not all assignment suggestions can be honored.
• Identify conflicts of interest.
• Suggest expertise using keywords. Never request specific reviewers.