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Re: Disclosure of "pink sheets" Tony Boccanfuso 11 Oct 1994 16:44 EST

>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

Applications are from the institution and not the individual.  I think a
PI's argument against sharing pink sheets are weak.