Guide to Effective Grant Writing How to Write an Effective NIH Grant
Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant is written to help the 100,000+ post-graduate students and professionals who need to write effective proposals for grants. There is little or no formal teaching about the process of wri
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Guide to Effective Grant Writing How to Write an Effective NIH Grant Application
Otto O.Yang Departments of Medicine, and Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics Gejfen School of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yang, Otto O. Guide to effective grant writing : how to write a successful NIH grant application / by Otto O. Yang, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-306-48664-4 (pbk.) - ISBN 0-306-48665-2 (ebook) 1. National Institutes of Health (U. S.) - Research grants - Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Proposal writing for grants - United States - Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title RAIL D6Y36 2004 2004051680 ISBN 0-306-48664-4(pbk.) ISBN 0-306-48665-2 (eBook) Printed on acid-free paper. © 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed in the United States of America. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 springer.com
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This book is dedicated foremost to my parents, who have provided constant support for all my endeavors. It is further dedicated to all my teachers, who provided me the tools to think and write. Finally, it is dedicated to my wife Wendy, without whose patience and understanding my work would not be possible.
Foreword
The bane of the academic existence is grant writing, and yet without grants most of us would not be able to continue to ply our trade. With this enormous importance of grants, it is surprising that we are so well trained to do research, with almost no formal attention given to grant writing, which is the lifeblood of academic research. Help is now at hand—this book by Otto Yang MD is the first truly helpful guide to grant writing. The book is likely to be of great help to anyone writing a grant, even those of us who are more seasoned grant writers. Organized in similar fashion to an actual NIH grant, with specific sections on specific aims, background and rationale, preliminary results, and experimental design, it outlines in very readable fashion specific suggestions for convincing study sections that the ideas being presented are worthy of funding, and turning the reviewer into an advocate for the project being proposed. It also points out common errors that make reviewers lose enthusiasm even when the experiments are highly worthy of funding. Frequent use of exampl
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