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FOREWORD
Many of the immediate questions confronting NIH in its support of
biomedical research relate to the allocation of funds in terms of
the scientific potential of a field. NIH has always believed that
the persons most capable of evaluating a scientific field are sci-
entists themselves -- on the NIH staff or elsewhere in the scien-
tific community. They are best qualified to examine the efforts
and objectives of their colleagues, to set priorities, and to
assist in obtaining an appropriate balance within the health-
related research effort. To investigate how NIH might avail it-
self of this expertise, Dr. Joseph C. Hwang, Chief of the Scientific
Evaluation Section, Office for Research Analysis and Evaluation in
the Division of Research Grants, suggested that the Division con-
duct a series of evaluation conferences. The proposal was endorsed
by the then Associate Director for Research Analysis and Evaluation,
Dr. Arley T. Bever, and four conferences were held in the fall of
1968. The conference dealing with Nutrition and Developmental Biol-
ogy forms the basis for this report.
It is hoped that this report and the others resulting from these
conferences will suggest a possible format for future evaluation
of scientific fields that will provide an improved rationale for
allocation choices.
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