Developing a Successful Grant Application

In this next installment of the NIH’s All About Grants podcast series, Cathleen Cooper, Ph.D., who directs the NIH’s Center for Scientific Review’s Division of Receipt and Referral, joins us to talk all about letters of support. Hear what information should be included in these letters, what should not, how they differ from other letters submitted as part of an application, and more.

You have a promising research idea that may involve human participants to carry out the study. Do you know what to do next? Join us for the next NIH All About Grants podcast conversation about how you know you are doing human subjects’ research.

You’ve done your homework: read the requisite materials on human subjects, spoken with program staff at NIH, even listened to Part 1 of this podcast mini-series for some insights on how you know you are actually doing human subjects research. Now you’re ready to explain in your NIH grant application how research participants will be protected and monitored.

Thanks to a suggestion from a listener, in this NIH All About Grants episode a duo of NIH program officers, Drs. Lillian Kuo from the National Cancer Institute and Kentner Singleton from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, share their advice and experience on developing a research plan for a grant application. They discuss the relationship between the specific aims and research strategy, provide suggestions for when you sit down to start writing, and share common pitfalls.