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Create a multiproject grant application as one complete application
that includes all research projects and cores.
Receipt dates for applications are in the funding opportunity announcement. Read these notices carefully as their instructions may differ from or supplement
those in this document.
For investigator-initiated applications, receipt dates for AIDS and non-AIDS differ. See NIH's Standard Due Dates for Competing Applications for details.
Send the signed original application and five single-sided photocopies to the Center for Scientific Review. Use the address labels in the PHS 398 to mail your application.
See our Advice for Multiproject Grants for grant writing tips.
Avoid Common Pitfalls
To make your application as strong as possible, try to steer clear of these pitfalls.
- Inclusion of weak projects.
- Lack of synergy and integration between the components (pay special attention to this).
- Lack of innovation.
- Insufficient expertise for the work proposed or failure to use expertise of people recruited to participate.
- Insufficient preliminary data.
- Failure to describe significance of proposed work.
- Insufficient experimental detail and unfocused experimental approaches.
- Lack of hypothesis-driven mechanistic studies.
- Lack of convincing rationale for some of the aims.
- Failure to address experimental pitfalls and alternative approaches.
- Overcommitment of program director or project leaders.
- Lack of program coordination.
- Submission of incomplete cores lacking detailed description of facility, approach, and project support.
- Failure to demonstrate progress for renewal.
- Poor formatting and presentation of application.
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