The Grant Review Committee is an international peer review panel for the Danish Diabetes and Endocrine Academy (DDEA).

Tasks and Responsibilities

The principal task of the Grant Review Committee is to:

• perform a professional peer review evaluation of applications for the DDEA grants for PhD scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships, and visiting professorships.

Composition and Appointment

The Grant Review Committee consists of 147 members from internationally renowned research institutions, constituting a pool of reviewers. The committee has four Chairs, one within each grant type, i.e. PhD scholarships, postdoctoral fellowships, visiting professorships, and industrial PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships.

The committee is based on a well-balanced and broad representation of international, renowned, scientific experts within diabetes and other endocrinology fields, with regard to gender, geography, and sector.

The members and the Chairs are appointed for a period of five years by the DDEA Board of Directors.

The Grant Review Committee is an executive committee, but has no decision-making mandate.

Further information can be found in the Terms of Reference for DDEA Grant Review Committee.

A list of members can be found here, and the Chairs are displayed below.