Session 4 - Writing a Competitive Grant Application

This workshop focuses on writing an NIH or other peer-reviewed grant application.  This is an examples-driven session, which focuses on the NIH Research Plan (Abstract and Specific Aims, Background and Significance, Preliminary Studies and Research Design Methods).  The examples used in this session are from funded as well as unsuccessful grants, so that participants learn how reviewers evaluate grant applications.  While this workshop focuses on the NIH R01 application, it also covers NIH awards for new investigators, focusing on the “K” awards as well as the NIH R03 and R21.