Janet Dafoe
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Yes. His grants go out with himself as Primary Investigator with Stanford as the Institution. In the Collaborative Center Grant, they required or encouraged to work with an NGO and to have a substantial community outreach program. OMF was part of those in that grant. Ron was still PI.Hi adreno - just for clarification, the OMI is the Open Medicine Institute, headed by Dr Andy Kogelnik. The OMF is the Open Medicine Foundation, led by Linda Tannenbaum and with Dr Ron Davis as the head of its Scientific Advisory Board. The OMF doesn't do research: it raises money for research, specifically the End ME/CFS Project.
So we should be seeking for neither the OMI nor the OMF to be funded by the NIH - rather, we should be looking for Ron Davis's group to be funded directly.
Have I got that right, @Janet Dafoe (Rose49)?
With respect to reviewers, Ron isn't positive about exactly how this one worked, but there were about 20 reviewers. Each had a few (3?) (the head of the study section gets to decide how to run it) who have to read the entire grant and score it. All the others get a copy of the grant and may or may not read the whole thing and can make comments. Keep in mind: he's been on LOTS of study sections and this is generally how it works, but it's up to the head of the committee the exact methods. But yes, it's not the whole group doing the heavy lifting on any one grant. It's a subset, a small subset, usually. And usually one of them gathers all the info and puts together the main review, so that person has a lot of leeway. I repeat, he does not know for sure EXACTLY how this one worked.
Also, grants are confidential. Scientists put their ideas and plans into them. They aren't made public, and reviewers are supposed to keep the contents confidential. The ones that are awarded can then be made public.
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