Application Chair

As in traditional review meetings, the Meeting Chair serves as the moderator of the discussion of scientific and technical merit of the applications being reviewed. The Meeting Chair is also a peer reviewer for the meeting.

In situations where the chairperson has a conflict on an application, the SRO* will assign an Application Chair role to another reviewer for that application.

TIP: *Other Transaction Authority (OTA) — Some screens and terminology may differ to accommodate review of OTA, a type of award that is neither a grant nor a contract but a different way of funding that is used across NIH. These changes will typically not be visible to NIH or agency reviewers.