This seminar will address aspects important to writing competitive NIH grant proposals. Geared toward faculty members, postdoctoral researchers and administrative staff with grant writing responsibility, emphasis is given to doing the ‘extra’ things that can make the difference between success and failure. Dr. Robertson will also address recent specific changes to the NIH requirements: new requirements for rigor, transparency, and reproducibility; changes to the writing of the Approach and Research Design subsections; and changes to the way that the Significance subsection should be written.

Participants will be taught to write with a linear progression of logic using the step-by-step process outlined in The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook—NIH version, of which everyone will receive a FREE COPY. It will be a guide to writing a competitive application, offering a practical, step-by-step approach to grant writing. Given that applicants are writing for two different audiences — the assigned reviewers, who read the application in its entirety, and non-assigned reviewers who may have read little, or nothing, of the proposal before the meeting of the review-panel — coping strategies will be emphasized.