How data can help to guide NIH funding policy

Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Rigorously assessing data about grant applications can help to identify problems and shape funding policies. Credit: Dragos Condrea/Alamy The world’s largest funder of biomedical research, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) , has decades’ worth of data on grant applications, peer-review results, funding outcomes and publications. Using such data to guide NIH policy could offer insights and help to address inequities. It would align with the “radical transparency” promised by the US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, under whose purview the NIH falls. Grant proposals drafted with AI help more likely to win NIH funding