Molecular Cellular and Developmental Neuroscience (MDCN) is not a study section, it is an integrated review group (IRG), a cluster of individual review panels. Applications go through two stages of referral during peer review. First, the Center for Scientific Review’s (CSR’s) [1] Division of Receipt and Referral assigns the applications to an IRG. The IRG staff then assign the applications to particular panels within the IRG. Check in the Commons 4 to 6 weeks after submitting your application; it should have been assigned to a particular panel and a Scientific Review Officer.

If your review assignment is an odd string of initials (like MDCN) and no scientific review officer is named, go to the CSR home page [1]and insert the initials in the upper search window (“Search Integrated Review Group (IRG)/Study Group using keywords”). The IRG will be returned, and you can click on that link to find the study sections clustered within it.