How the NIH Can Help You Get Funded : an Insider's Guide to Grant Strategy.

How the NIH Can Help You Get Funded takes a novel, non-formulaic approach in teaching readers how to ""write a grant""--And much more. The authors draw on their decades of experience working with both investigators and NIH personnel to anticipate their questions and concerns and...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Kienholz, Michelle L.
Other Authors: Berg, Jeremy M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Essential Steps for Securing NIH Grant Funding: A Quick Guide to Key Concepts; Abbreviations; 1. National Institutes of Health; Office of the Director; How an Application Becomes a Grant; 2. Institutes and Centers; Program Officers; Advisory Councils; Institute and Center Data; 3. Center for Scientific Review and the Peer Review Process; Picking the Right Reviewers; How Your Application Is Reviewed; What the Score (or Lack Thereof) Means; Percentiles versus Paylines versus Success Rate.
  • Becoming a ReviewerPeer Review Resources; 4. Office of Extramural Research; Funding Opportunities; Preparing Your Application; eRA Commons; Grants Policy; 5. Federal Budget Process; 6. NIH Funding Data and Trends; Applying Data to Your Application Strategy; 7. Getting at Mechanism; Research Grants (R series); Research Programs (P series); Career Development; Research Training; A Word about Supplements; A Word about Bridge Funding (R56 Awards); 8. Telling Your Story Well; First, Check the Data; Specific Aims; Approach; Significance; Innovation; Introduction.
  • Protection of Research Subjects (Human, Animal)Project Summary; Other Application Components; Cover Letter; Budget; 9. Presenting Your Message Well; Organizing Your Ideas; Reader-Friendly Formatting; Science of Communicating; Beyond the Text; 10. Getting by with a Little Help from Your Friends; Friends at the National Institutes of Health; Friends outside the National Institutes of Health; 11. Before and After Your Study Section Meets; Before the Review; Review Week; After the Review; Council Meeting; Appeals; Administrative Review and Award Processing; 12. Is the Check in the Mail?
  • Reading the NumbersWhen Will You Know Whether Your Score Is "Fundable"; 13. The Check Is Not in the Mail ... ; Resubmission; Repurposing Your Application; 14. The Check Is in the Mail, but ... ; Downsized; Change of Institution; Carryover; Keeping the Money Coming: NIH Public Access Policy; Appendix: Contacts and Resources at Institutes and Centers Common data set for each Institute and Center with funding authority (key links, contact information); Index.