Peer review is the best way for health and medical research charities to decide what research to fund
Principles of peer review
Peer review is the best way for health and medical research charities to decide what research to fund. Done properly, peer review allows charities to support the best research and the best researchers. This, in turn, can help charities maximise the impact of their funding and deliver changes that really matter to their supporters and stakeholders, so that patients benefit from the fruits of research.
We have implemented AMRC’s five principles of peer review when selecting our research for funding:
Accountability
Balance
Independent decision making
Rotation of scientific advisors
Impartiality
Our peer review process goes through 4 different steps before we award our research grants, as described below:
Internal triage
Written peer review
Scientific Advisory
Scientific Advisory Committee
Trustees
For more information on the AMRC’s principles of peer review, follow this link.
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