While numerous studies have described the funding discrepancies faced by scientists at minority-serving institutions (MSIs), there is a relative paucity of information available about MSI-based scientists’ participation in grant review, the process used by research funders to allocate their budgets.
A new article from the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) sheds further light on grant review and the factors that underlie MSI scientists’ ability to participate in it. The article can be accessed here.