The Grant Review Committee is an international peer review panel.

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 115 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 of the highest international level within diabetes and other endocrinology fields, considering 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.

Members of the DDEA Grant Review Committee

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

	Anna Krook Professor	Karolinska University, Sweden Chair of Postdoctoral Fellowships
	Christopher Rhodes Chief Scientist	AstraZeneca, United States Chair of Industrial Scholarships and Postdoctoral Fellowships
	David McIntyre Professor	University of Queensland, Australia Chair of PhD Scholarships
	Richard Holt Professor	University of Southhampton, United Kingdom Chair of Visiting Professorships