22VAC30-50-70. Grant reviewers and technical advisors.
The advisory board may choose, at any time, to appoint grant reviewers or other technical advisors, or both, to assist in reviewing and ranking applications. Such reviewers and advisors may represent medical researchers, medical practitioners, community-based service providers, consumers, advocates for consumers, or others deemed appropriate by the advisory board for this purpose. Reviewers and advisors shall be appointed so as to provide equal representation from Virginia's medical schools. Reviewers and advisors shall be selected so as to avoid any conflict of interests or the appearance thereof, and the advisory board may choose reviewers and advisors residing or working outside Virginia to ensure impartiality. Whenever reviewers or advisors sit as a committee, the chair of the advisory board or his designee shall serve as chair of the committee but shall not vote on individual applications.
Statutory Authority
§§ 51.5-131 and 51.5-181 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Former 12VAC5-185-70 derived from Virginia Register Volume 17, Issue 9, eff. February 14, 2001; adopted as 22VAC30-50-70, Virginia Register Volume 19, Issue 9, eff. February 13, 2003; amended, Virginia Register Volume 25, Issue 24, eff. September 3, 2009; Volume 33, Issue 2, eff. October 19, 2016; Volume 37, Issue 19, eff. June 25, 2021.