Main description:

*Includes new chapters on Fellowship Grants and Career Development Awards designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career faculty
*Provides strategies to highlight the "overall impact" of the grant, one of the most important aspects determining NIH funding in a new chapter on Significance and Innovation
*Provides step-by-step guidelines for grant structure and style alongside broader strategies for developing a research funding portfolio
*Explains how to avoid common errors and pitfalls, supplying critical dos and don'ts that aid in writing solid grant proposals
*Illustrates key concepts with extensive examples from successfully funded proposals

Contents:

Preface to 2nd Edition. Author Bio. 1 Ten Top Tips for Successful Grant Proposal Writing. Part I Preparing to Write the Grant Proposal. 2 Setting up a Time Frame. 3 Identifying a Topic and Conducting the Literature Search. 4 Choosing the Right Funding Source. 5 Scientific Writing. Part II The Grant Proposal: Section by Section. 6 Specific Aims. 7 How to Develop and Write Hypotheses. 8 Significance and Innovation. 9 Preliminary Studies. 10 Pilot Grants: Reproducibility and Validity Studies. 11 Study Design and Methods. 12 Data Analysis Plan. 13 Power and Sample Size. 14 Study Limitations to Consider. 15 How to Present Limitations and Alternatives. 16 Project Summary/Abstract. Part III Submission and Resubmission. 17 Submission of the Grant Proposal. 18 Fellowship Grants. 19 Career Development Awards. 20 Review Process. 21 Resubmission of the Grant Proposal. Index.