Grants & You Newsletter Winter 2017: Grantsmanship Training & Resources

The NIH Collaboratory Coordinating Center at Duke University recently launched The Living Textbook, a researcher-friendly compendium of information for the design, planning, and implementation of pragmatic clinical trials. Based on the expert consensus of researchers involved in the Collaboratory, this could be a valuable resource as you develop your clinical trial.

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Questions about clinical trials? This should help.

As of January 25, 2018, the NIH will require that proposals involving clinical trials be in response to FOAs that specifically state clinical trials are allowable. So how do you know if your research is a clinical trial? The attached interactive tool will tell you.

A new website that provides resources for researchers working with randomized groups. It features an interactive sample-size calculator and other research-methods resources.

Podcasts designed for investigators, fellows, students, research administrators, and others curious about the grant application and award process.

Enter abstracts or other scientific text and Matchmaker will return a list of 100 similar projects from the NIH RePORTER database. *Link includes a video tutorial.

Preparing, Submitting, and Tracking Your NIH Application Using ASSIST.

The title tells you it announces a funding opportunity, but what other information can you learn from a Funding Opportunity Announcement, and how can you search them on Grants.gov?

Confused about what constitutes a subaward or a subrecipient? Grants.gov's Community Blog provides a good overview.

The first lesson on Workspace from Grants.gov provides a more detailed overview of how to work within Workspace.