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Receipt, Referral, and Assignment of Applications

Routing of applications arriving at NIH. The Division of Receipt and Referral (DRR) of CSR is the central receipt point for competing applications. The role of the DRR is to assign each application to a review group that has the expertise to evaluate the scientific and technical merit of the application and to one or more ICs for funding consideration. Information on the assignment of grant applications is accessed through the Commons.

Quoted from the NIH OER Glossary & Acronym List.

For additional information on Receipt, Referral and Assignment, visit the NIH OER Receipt and Referral and the CSR's The Assignment Process webpages.

When an application is assigned to NCI for initial peer review, a referral officer In the DEA's Program Coordination and Referral Branch (PCRB) will examine and direct each application to the appropriate NCI program director. The program director is responsible for following the progress of his/her assigned application(s) through the peer review process.