Guide to Effective Grant Writing

1. Front Matter

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2. Overview: Overall Goals When Writing Grant Applications

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3. Organization and Use of This Guide

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4. Preparing to Write

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5. Types of NIH Grants

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6. Anatomy of the NIH Grant Application

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7. Starting to Write: Planning the Aims and Overcoming Writer’s Block

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8. Organization and Writing Style

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9. Figures and Tables

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10. Specific Aims

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11. Research Strategy: Significance

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12. Research Strategy: Innovation

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13. Research Strategy: Approach

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14. Bibliography and References Cited

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15. Use of Appendices

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16. Collaborators and Consultants

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17. Training and Career Development Grants

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18. Administrative Sections and Submission Process

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19. Scoring Process

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20. Resubmitting an Application

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Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant, 2nd edition is a fully updated follow-up to the popular original. It 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 writing grants for NIH, and many grant applications are rejected due to poor writing and weak formulation of ideas. Procuring grant funding is the central key to survival for any academic researcher in the biological sciences; thus, being able to write a proposal that effectively illustrates one's ideas is essential. Covering all aspects of the proposal process, from the most basic questions about form and style to the task of seeking funding, this volume offers clear advice backed up with excellent examples. Included are a number of specimen proposals to help shed light on the important issues surrounding the writing of proposals. The Guide is a clear, straight-forward, and reader-friendly tool. Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Writing is based on Dr. Yang's extensive experience serving on NIH grant review panels; it covers the common mistakes and problems he routinely witnesses while reviewing grants.

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From the reviews of the second edition:

“It is a very recent book gives most timely information. … This rule book narrates an insider’s view about the how an application is evaluated and what could be winning point in writing for grants. Author’s writing style along with illustrations provided will captivate readers’ interest from preface to conclusion. … As reader reaches the conclusion chapter the qualities like precision and clarity will become mantras to win the grant writing skill effortlessly!!” (T. S. Seemanthini, Journal of Psychosocial Research, Vol. 8 (1), January-June, 2013)

• Geffen School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA

  Otto O. Yang

Dr. Yang attended college and medical school at Brown University and completed a residency internal medicine at Bellevue Hospital/New York University.  During his Infectious Diseases fellowship training at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he began his research career studying the role of cellular immunity against HIV-1.  During his fellowship training, he received NIH F32 and K08 grants, followed by an R01 grant as an instructor.  He is currently a professor at University of California Los Angeles, where he has been on the faculty since 1999.

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