3. Results
MRS
Through cohorts 1–4, our study has thus far recruited 210 ESI participants that are deemed eligible to submit applications for funding. The 210 ESIs produced 234 applications for extramural funding. By October 2022, of these applications 62 (26.5%) went through an MRS with proposed mechanisms of funding distributed as follows: 43 (69.4%) R-series research grants, 14 (22.6%) career development (K series) grants and 5 (8.1%) others (Support of Competitive Research (SCORE) and National Science Foundation grants). Before and after the mock review became mandatory, 32 (51.6%) and 30 (48.4%) MRS were, respectively, held. 