Grantsmanship:
Abel Pharmboy pointed to a piece in The Scientist entitled "Losing Your Lab" which discusses the plight of the soft-money researcher who has run out of funding. Actually, the plight of one researcher in particular. The commentary is, however, getting...
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Posted on May 9, 2008 10:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The NIH grant applications which will be reviewed Jun/Jul are going out to reviewers right about now. Poking through my pile of assignments I find that I have three R01 applications at the A2 stage (the second and "final" amendment...
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Posted on May 6, 2008 2:22 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[The motivating context for this has been removed because subsequent developments made it obvious that it was such a unique event that my post would violate the confidentiality of all concerned. In both minor and major ways. -DM] I keep...
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Posted on April 18, 2008 6:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The inestimable writedit has a hilarious (in a "sick sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach for that grant you just submitted" kind of way) post up over on Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship entitled "How to Prevent Grant...
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Posted on April 4, 2008 3:21 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Medical Writing, Editing & Grantsmanship I noticed a commenter musing: I'd be interested to know how many readers of this blog have actual formal training in the task of review (here I make a strong distinction from training...
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Posted on March 27, 2008 3:12 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Writedit ponders a recent Nature piece on PIs who hold largish numbers of awards and dollars from the NIH. The post from writedit covers some recent policy proposals seeking to limit the total number of awards any one PI can...
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Posted on March 21, 2008 9:48 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As a new PI, your single most important task (by quite a margin) in the first three years of your faculty appointment is to obtain an R01 research project grant. Getting that first R01 is essential to the ongoing viability...
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Posted on February 6, 2008 9:16 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You may be weighing the relative risks and rewards of submitting as your first NIH research project grant application an R21 versus an R01.
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Posted on January 29, 2008 1:30 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Applications for funds to support primarily mentored training of one kind or another have to be approached quite differently from your garden-variety R01 Research Project grant application.
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Posted on January 27, 2008 6:20 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Center for Scientific Review at NIH just released a two-page PDF pamphlet called the "Insider's Guide to Peer Review For Applicants". This publication contains little squibs written by former and current study section chairs intended as advice for applicants...
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Posted on January 23, 2008 11:49 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
