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Scientific Review Group/Committee Structure

Office of Extramural Affairs Grant and Contract Review Committees

Code Committee Name or Description Scientific Review Officer Research Areas
ZDA1-___- Special Emphasis
Panels (SEP)
Various NIDA SROs A NIDA Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) is recruited by the SRO for a special review, often a unique RFA or a Program Announcement (PA), or for contract proposals. Some recurring SEP reviewed at NIDA are listed below.
ZDA1-EXL-T Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) for NIDA Centers Eliane Lazar-Wesley, Ph.D.
301-451-4530
Review complex multidisciplinary, multi-component applications with administrative and scientific cores and projects related to an integrating theme.
ZDA1-MXL-A Special Emphasis Panel (SEP) for
Conference Grants
PA-08-149
Minna Liang, Ph.D.
301-435-1432
Review grant applications for high quality conferences/ scientific meetings relevant to NIDA's scientific and public health issues.
ZDA1-GXM-A Special Emphasis
Panel (SEP) for
I/START
PAR-06-311
Gerald McLaughlin, Ph.D.
301-402-6626
Review grant applications to facilitate the entry of beginning investigators with brain imaging research relevant to drug abuse.
ZDA1-SXC-A Special Emphasis
Panel (SEP) for
CEBRA
PAR-06-209
Scott Chen, Ph.D.
301-443-9511
Review grant applications to foster highly innovative or conceptually creative research related to drug abuse and addiction and how to prevent and treat them, and to support high-risk, potentially high-impact that is underrepresented or not included in NIDA's current portfolio.

*The standing review committees that reviewed the R mechanism, [NIDA/E (Treatment), NIDA/F (Health Services), and NIDA/L (Medication Development)], were dissolved in 2009, and NIDA/K (Training Committee) was dissolved in June, 2012, and most applications that would have been reviewed in these committees are now being reviewed in CSR.

Click here for rosters of review groups that are managed by the Center for Scientific Review or other Institutes.

General committee information contact:

Ms. Camilla L. Holland,
NIDA Committee Management Officer
(301)435-1384.

For specific committee information contact the Scientific Review Officer listed above.

Office Address:

Office of Extramural Affairs
National Institute on Drug Abuse
National Institutes of Health
6001 Executive Boulevard
Room 4230, MSC 9550
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-9550

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This page was last updated December 1, 2011.

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