Greetings,

Do any of your institutions have policies or practices about asking
or requiring investigators to share their "pink sheets" (ie, reviews
of grant applications) with administration?

The advantage to administration is that such reviews are useful in
determining whether an institution should use institutional funds to
support a researcher who has not been able to win external funds.

For example a dean might be reasonably comfortable in
providing briddge funding to an investigator whose application was very
favorably reviewed and just missed the payline. On the other hand, the same
dean might be reluctant to support an investigator who consistently obtains
unenthusiastic reviews for proposals that are competent but unexciting.

An objection that might be raised by an investigator is that the NIH
reviews are privileged communications and an institutional policy requiring
their disclosure is an invasion of privacy.

Thanks

Robert Bienkowski
Pediatric Research Center
Schneider Children's Hospital
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
xxxxxx@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu