Steve Harris wrote:

I can't tell you how many times I've had a grant proposal
criticized on the grounds that it wasn't being submitted by
a recognized expert in the field in which the work was
proposed. That's fine, but this actually happened once in a
field my lab had invented, and in which there WERE no
experts working on the technique but me and a couple of my
team members!

This would be your work in proactive treatments for
chronic, whole-body frostbite?