An experienced peer reviewer on making proposals shine and standards of indigenous health research
As a cancer immunologist, Misty Jenkins has been involved with the National Health and Medical Research Council for most of her career. Currently the head of a lab at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Jenkins not only has a number of National Health and Medical Research Council fellowships and project grants under her belt but has been a peer reviewer for a decade and chaired peer review panels for the last six years.
Over that time she’s seen some important changes in the system, not least the NHMRC shake-up in 2018 that introduced Investigator Grants, which provide salaries with added research support, and Ideas Grants, which fund research projects.