Read Phase

During the Read Phase of a meeting, reviewers who have already submitted critiques for their assigned applications can view the critiques and scores of other reviewers. Reviewers may submit late critiques if they had not done so in the Submit Phase; however, Reviewers cannot modify or resubmit critiques or preliminary scores already submitted during the Read Phase.

Not all Reviewers can view all critiques, for example, Mail Reviewers may only view assigned applications. Reviewers may be blocked by SROs* from reviewing others’ critiques if their own have not been submitted. Reviewers are also excluded from viewing critiques of applications with which they are in conflict. Refer to Viewing Critiques for more information.

The Read Phase of the meeting begins immediately at the end of the Submit Phase and ends when the SRO designates, which usually is at the time the actual meeting ends.

TIP: *Other Transaction Authority (OTA) - Some screens and terminology may be different in order 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.