Helping You Get Recognized For The Great Science That You Do
It would be hard not to notice that things are changing in the world of grants. Funding rates are at an all-time low (< 1 in 6 according to NIH data). People are demoralized. I talk to them everyday, and it can be painful at times.
I have some good ideas about why things are changing and what to do about it. Instead of trying to write this up in a (very long) blog post, I’ve decided to put together ...(read more)
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Tip #1: The specific aims
I’ve been writing grants for about 20 years. The first one I wrote was as a graduate student. I came up with an idea for a distributed-object system for DNA sequencing data management, and went to my advisor Lloyd Smith with it. He said, “great, why don’t you write a grant proposal to get it funded?”
I didn’t know where to start. I struggled with it, but eventually managed to come up with a plan. I gave ...(read more)
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