Grants & You Newsletter Spring 2018: Grantsmanship Training & Resources

How much funding is available? How many applications are received? How likely is it your proposal will be successful? This Open Mike Blog post compares that data (and more) from fiscal year 2017 and 3 preceding years.

Have you ever wondered how many researchers apply for NIH grants and, more importantly, how many are successful? Two years ago, NIH's Open Mike Blog examined the number of researchers NIH supports. At the time, two major problems were identified: 1) too many scientists vying for too few dollars and 2) too many post-docs seeking too few faculty positions. This recent Open Mike Blog post presents updated statistics regarding the number of researchers vying for support.

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.

NIH provides resources outlining new application changes.

Research surveys often take the form of a series of quantitative questions followed by a blank space for a free-text response. This article discusses problems to consider with this approach, and also identifies situations in which it is appropriate.

To ensure an enthusiastic response to your proposal, consider these solutions offered by the Chronicle of Higher Education to 10 common grant writing mistakes.