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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463433603321

Autore

Kienholz Michelle L.

Titolo

How the NIH can help you get funded : an insider's guide to grant strategy / / Michelle L. Kienholz and Jeremy M. Berg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-998965-6

0-19-935836-2

0-19-998966-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Disciplina

610.72/4

Soggetti

Medicine - Research

Medicine - Research - United States

Biology - Research

Biology - Research - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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: DT how the NIH operates at the corporate level, as well as the culture and policies of individual institutes and centers DT how the NIH budget evol