These findings helped prompt a multi-year NIH probe to determine whether unconscious racial biases impede minority researchers from receiving funding and to detect and correct racial bias in the grant-making peer-review process.38 In 2014 the NIH Center for Scientific Review announced a challenge for investigators to devise new methods to detect bias in peer review and strengthen impartiality.39 According to a press release announcing the winners, many of the entries overlapped with ideas NIH is already considering, which center director Richard Nakamura said “suggests we are on the right track.”40
