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4 Vision Setting and the Pre-Application Process
4 Vision Setting and the Pre-Application Process
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The chapter then focuses on the processes that a programmatic panel uses to establish an annual vision and investment strategy for the research program. The programmatic panel's activities with regard to reviewing applications are discussed in Chapter 6 because they occur after the peer review process (discussed in Chapter 5)
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. When a new research program is initiated, the CDMRP program manager assigned to the new program initiates the program process (with the help of the programmatic review contractor)
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The CDMRP provided the committee with 10 vision setting booklets for 6 research programs. These booklets -- along with the investment strategies that they help inform -- delineate the short-term goals of the program, the research gaps to be addressed, congressional intent, research initiatives and funding in other organizations, the award mechanisms to be used to achieve program goals, and the amount of funding to be
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Pre-Meeting Activities Prior to the vision setting meeting, the CDMRP program manager needs to understand the intent of the annual congressional appropriation language that funds -- and, in some cases, specifies -- the scientific focus of the research program (e.g., that the Prostate Cancer Research Program should fund imaging studies)
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Information gathered from all the above sources is included in the vision setting booklet for each CDMRP research program. The booklet, prepared annually by the program manager, is provided to the programmatic panel members at least 1–2 weeks in advance of the meeting, preferably earlier.
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Vision setting meetings are nearly always held in person. At the vision setting meeting, the CDMRP program manager briefs the panel on the goals of the meeting, including a review of the research program's vision and mission statements, the current award portfolio, and information on the program announcements, such as an estimation of the number of anticipated awards per mechanism, and application criteria (Salzer, 2016b)
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Post-Meeting Activities and Deliverables After the investment strategy recommendations are developed by the programmatic panel, they are reviewed by the CDMRP program manager and the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA)
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Landscape Documents Two CDMRP programs -- the Breast Cancer Research Program and the Ovarian Cancer Research Program -- have developed landscape documents to help refine the criteria in the program announcements; as of August 2016, only the breast cancer document was available on the CDMRP website. These landscape documents provide a synopsis of the available epidemiologic data on morbidity and mortality as well as a summary of new diagnostic and treatment advances for those cancers.
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The committee has been informed, however, that the Gulf War Illness Research Program is in the process of developing a similar document which will be posted on the research program's website (Salzer, 2016c) and that several other research programs are considering or are in the process of developing similar documents (Salzer, 2016d)
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Other award mechanisms require more extensive pre-application materials and have screening criteria for their review. In 2014, more than 11,000 preapplications were received across 23 research programs, ranging from 8 for the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Disorders Research Program to 2,314 for the Breast Cancer Research Program (Salzer, 2016c)
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. During this meeting, the program manager may brief the panel on the program announcements as well as review the program's history, award intent, focus areas, and portfolio composition, along with key elements of the pre-applications and their screening criteria (Salzer, 2016b)
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76 EVALUATION OF THE CDMRP REVIEW PROCESS finds that applicants who are not invited to submit full applications are not informed about why their application did not meet the screening criteria for full submission, nor are they permitted an opportunity to address the pre-application's shortcomings and resubmit.
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