From CIHR instructions to Reviewers

ASSESSMENT: Please address the strengths and weaknesses of the application in each of the following areas:

  1. The significance, impact or importance of the work proposed: the likelihood that it will, directly or indirectly, lead to the creation of new knowledge and its translation into improved health for Canadians, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health care system:
  2. The originality, or novelty of the concepts, ideas or hypotheses being pursued in the application, or the innovation shown in the approach to the research problem:
  3. The appropriateness of the research plan, including its feasibility and the use of the best available methodologies:

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