RCP provided peer review services for over 1,100 research grant proposals for Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullaziz City for Science and Technology’s inaugural rounds of the Applied Research Grant Program and Basic Research Grant Program. The proposals covered a wide range of priority research areas including Health & Medicine; Energy; Electronic, Communication & Phonetics; Water; Environment; Agriculture & Food Manufacturing; Oil, Gas & Minerals; Natural Sciences; and Engineering and Technology. Proposal review took place between November 2017 and March 2018. AAAS has supported KSA’s scientific research and development enterprise since 2008 by providing high-quality, independent peer reviews of research grant proposals.