Grant Review Process
Administrative Review
Research Program staff conduct a preliminary review to verify applications are complete and comply with all stated requirements.
Incomplete or noncompliant applications may not move to the scientific review stage.
ATS cannot accept changes or additions to letters of intent or applications once they have been submitted.
Scientific Review
The ATS Scientific Grant Review Committee (SGRC) is composed of distinguished respiratory health researchers. The SGRC leads a rigorous, NIH-style review process to identify the most impactful research proposals.
Reviewers determine the overall impact of each application by assessing the quality of the investigator’s scientific background and research environment and evaluating each proposal’s overall significance, innovation, feasibility, and importance to patients.
For its unrestricted and diversity grants, the Research Program employs a two-stage process. Partner grants do not require a letter of intent (LOI) and are reviewed at the full application stage.
- Letter of Intent Stage
- Two members of the SGRC review each LOI and provide an overall score.
- Researchers submitting LOIs with the highest scores are invited to submit full applications.
- Full Application Stage
- Full applications are reviewed by three SGRC members, who provide an overall impact score and comments.
- Applications are ranked by their average preliminary score. The lowest scoring applications are triaged and not discussed at the review.
- The SGRC discusses the remaining applications at the grant review meeting. The entire committee scores the applications.
- The applications are then ranked from lowest to highest average score. The SGRC recommends the top scoring application(s) in each grant category for funding.