How the Nih Can Help You Get Funded: An Insider's Guide to Grant Strategy

ISBN-13: 9780199989645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str.

Michelle L. Kienholz; Jeremy M. Berg

Opis

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 help establish a comfortable, productive partnership between them.

With this book's focus on applying this knowledge to their personal grant strategy, readers will learn:

- how the NIH operates at the corporate level, as well as the culture and policies of individual institutes and centers
- how the NIH budget evolves over the course of a fiscal year and why the timing is important
- how to customize NIH Web site searches and use the data to increase chances of success
- how to identify appropriate program officers, study sections, and funding opportunities

The authors advise readers on developing each component of the grant application in order of the components' influence on the final impact score. Individual funding mechanisms are reviewed along with grantsmanship tips specific to each. Readers learn the importance of reviewer-friendly formatting and organization of the text.

The final chapters cover next steps after the application has been submitted-before, during, and after the review and funding decision. Strategies for resubmitting or repurposing applications are provided for those readers whose applications do not receive awards. The authors likewise anticipate the needs of readers who do receive funding but have questions on managing and maintaining their award.

Amid ever-increasing competition for government research grants, How the NIH Can Help You Get Funded is an invaluable manual for how to pursue -- and sustain -- NIH funding.

Recenzje

The two authors are experienced with and knowledgeable about this bureaucratic system and provide researchers an exceptional aid in working through the process...the authors do a magnificent job of explaining why the application process is so time-intense. The book also gives superb advice about developing a protocol and applying for a grant and what the different decision steps mean for researchers.100 - 5 stars!

O autorze

Michelle Kienholz has partnered with scientists, clinicians, and public health researchers from all disciplines at dozens of universities to develop grant applications for almost every federal agency, including most grant mechanisms for each of the institutes and centers at the NIH. She volunteers her knowledge and experience on her popular blog, Medical Writing, Editing and Grantsmanship (as writedit), through which she has learned the most common and vexing concerns of researchers who interact with the NIH and how best to foster a partnership between investigators and NIH personnel. Jeremy M. Berg served for eight years as Director of the National Institute for General Medical Sciences at NIH, where he championed transparency and communication. Prior to his time at NIH, he was at Johns Hopkins University for 19 years as a postdoctoral fellow, faculty member, and department chair. He is currently on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he serves in several key administrative positions and conducts research in computational biology and personalized medicine. He has received numerous research, teaching, and public service awards.