You sit down with palms sweaty against the keyboard, ready to write your next grant proposal to get your Big Idea (™) funded. You are dead serious and you let your reviewers know it, as you spew forth a stream of endless facts and figures about the wonderful work you do and will do. This is how to write a grant, right? You know that your ...(read more)
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Sometimes getting an NIH grant is like pulling teeth, because you’ll submit a proposal that you think is great, and get reviews back that just pick it apart. But grant reviewers almost never tell you what they’re really thinking. In this episode, Morgan reveals why that is, and how you can avoid it.
Hey, get some key tips on science careers, including an excerpt ...(read more)
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The genome era is an incredible time to be in science, but also presents unprecedented challenges. With the publishing of the first complete human genome just about 10 years ago, major questions remain, such as:
Where are all the genes located on the genome? How and when are the genes regulated? How are those genes spliced to form different variants of genes? Which of the genes encode proteins, and which encode other functional RNAs?It turns out that “sequencing a genome” was only a ...(read more)
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What is one of the key secrets that a great grant writer knows, but that most other people don’t?
In middle school I was a very disengaged student. I struggled and even dropped out for a while (funny, isn’t it, that I later became a successful professor! More on that later.)
One of the reasons I struggled was the BORING teachers.
I remember the most boring one of all. I won’t name him because I’m sure he was a well meaning ...(read more)
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Starting in January, NIH is implementing a shortened grant format for all of the main grant types, including R01′s and K awards. This came from very long and involved deliberation with many members of the research community, spanning years. The key message that prompted the NIH to do this was that everyone felt like the whole grant writing and grant reviewing endeavor was wasting far too much time. On that point I am in complete agreement!
Whether ...(read more)
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