Strengthen your next grant submission with the Center for Advanced Research Training & Innovation's new Grantsmanship Diagnostic and Tune‑Up.
To obtain funding, a great idea is simply not enough. Grantsmanship is the “art” of communicating complex scientific ideas and proposal to reviewers. If your grants have been rejected or if you are not confident about your grant writing skills, submit your grants to Christy Chang, PhD, MS, a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-trained grant writing coach and a NIH-funded investigator, for a diagnostic review.
She will identify writing issues that make understanding the significance and the impact of your proposal more challenging. She will meet with you to review her findings and teach you the grant writing tips that experienced and successful principal investigators use consistently that make complex grants more digestible to reviewers.
What to submit: Completed but unfunded proposals or nearly completed applications. You can use applications to any funding mechanisms and agencies. For an application in progress, please submit at least two pages of a draft that, to you, is well written and ready to be submitted.
Timeline: After review, Chang will schedule a meeting with you in approximately two weeks to share her findings. For NIH grants that you plan to resubmit, please contact her at least six weeks before the deadlines. It is highly recommended that you share the revised grant along with the summary statement.