Specific Aims: Fitting your grant on one page
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Specific Aims: Fitting your grant on one page
Laura RanumDirector, Center for NeuroGenetics
Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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What I look for in a Grant and on the Aims Page
• Who • What• Why • How• What will you do with the information– – Will it make an impact?– Is it incremental or transformative?
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Structure
• Background• Rationale for your proposal• List of specific aims– 1.) Hypotheses– 2.) General description of approach
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The foundation of your proposal: The Hypothesis
http://medicine.emory.edu/research/R_series.cfm
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My experience
• Keep it simple – expect that your reviewers will be smart but not necessarily experts in your field.
• I have never reviewed a grant directly in my field for the NIH
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Aims Page: Revise Revise Revise
• As you write your ideas down they will become clearer
• As your ideas become clearer revise your aims page
• Writing a grant is a wonderful opportunity to focus the efforts of your lab– What is most important– What has to get done quickly
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Consider a diagram of your aims
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Final thoughts• Start early• Grant writing is hard work• Administrative stuff takes A LOT OF TIME
– Get it done early!!!!!!• Talk through your aims with your colleagues• Refine and revise your aims as you write the body of the grant
– it is okay if they change• Writing a grant is fun – it is an opportunity to refocus and take
your research to the next level!!!!• Talk with your NIH Program Officer – they have great advice
and are your advocate
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Good Luck!!!!