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So, you wanna be an NIH investigator? Our first series is targeted at individuals at various career stages–new faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students–who are planning careers in biomedical research.
In our first three episodes, we discuss the New and Early Stage Investigator policies, grant writing for new investigators, and grant programs new faculty members can use to develop their research program.
Dr. Sally Rockey, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, describes which parts of the application are made public via the RePORTER website and why using plain language in these sections can help express the value of your research to the public. Don’t miss this episode, “Using Plain Language for Application Titles, Abstracts and Public Health Relevance Statements.”
In this episode of "All About Grants" from the National Institutes of Health, Ms. Megan Columbus, from the NIH Office of Extramural Research, discusses the importance of effectively telling your story in a grant application. She emphasizes the elements of a compelling narrative, such as a fascinating plot, strong themes, well-developed characters, and an appealing style, comparing it to reading a good book.
In this podcast on developing your budget, Grace Olascoaga, a Grants Management Officer from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, helps you figure out what to include in the budget, which form to use, and where to go for help. For more information, visit OER’s developing your budget page.
In this episode of "All About Grants" from the National Institutes of Health, Ms. Megan Columbus discusses the importance of determining appropriate roles for individuals in grant applications. Ms. Columbus is the director of the Division of Communications and Outreach in the NIH Office of Extramural Research. She is joined by Dr. Amanda Boyce, a Program Director at the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, and Dave Curren from the Office of Extramural Research's Division of Grants Policy.
The All About Grants podcast welcomes Dr. Neil Thakur, special assistant to the NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research, and Dr. Bart Trawick, literature database lead at the NIH National Library of Medicine, as guests on its two newest podcasts, “Understanding NIH’s Biosketch Requirements” and “Using SciENcv to Create an NIH Biosketch”.
Proposing the use of animal models in your application? All About Grants has a new podcast episode on writing the vertebrate animal section in your grant or contract research proposal. Join Dr. Patricia Brown, Director of the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare for a discussion of why this application section is required, what reviewers look for, and more.
Starting January 29, 2019, NIH will begin implementing the Inclusion Across the Lifespan policy, which requires the consideration of age, along with sex/gender and race/ethnicity, in applications that involve human participants. What does this policy mean for you and your study?
Hello and welcome to another edition of NIH’s All About Grants podcast. I’m your host David Kosub with the NIH’s Office of Extramural Research. We recognize that to address public health concerns, science must be empirical, replicable, and rigorous. We know that the biomedical and behavioral research community considers these factors too when preparing, performing, and publishing their research. In January 2016, NIH established a policy to continue strengthening these precepts of rigor and reproducibility in the research that we support. And that’s what brings us here today.
Individual fellowship (F) awards provide research training opportunities to trainees at the predoctoral, graduate, and postdoctoral levels. Listen to this next installment of the NIH’s All About Grants podcast series, to hear NIH’s Research Training Policy Officer discusses the F application process, sharing tips and best practices for developing a strong application.
