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| Fundamentals |
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| Write for your peer reviewers, your application's audience. |
| Find experts to help with technical matters and fill in gaps. |
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Your application's audience is the group of peer reviewers who review your application and give it a priority score, the most important determinant of its success.
In NIH
Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal, we walk you through the NIH application section by section.
We tell you how to write to your audience, create a hypothesis-driven application, address NIH review criteria, and organize your application to make it easy for reviewers to find information.
As a new investigator, you should consider seeking advice and filling in gaps with mentors, collaborators, or consultants. If you do not have a well-known mentor or a string of publications, you can compensate by getting a well-established investigator to sign on as a collaborator.
- A mentor or other adviser can help you plan a study design that enables you to analyze your data, test your hypothesis, and achieve your goals.
- Collaborators can fill gaps in your expertise and resources and will impress reviewers if known in the field.
- Experts can execute any of the technical and analytical aspects of the project.
- They can also help develop detailed information for the application on such items as sample size estimates, sampling and research design, data definitions, and analytic models.
- It helps to choose a mentor or collaborator who is well known and respected; reviewers may recognize his or her name.
- Try to get your application assigned to a study section where some members know the work of your mentor or collaborator. A proposal assigned to a study section whose members have barely heard of an investigator may have a weaker chance of success.
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