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• Genre
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• Planning
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• Drafting
• Revising and editing
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o audience-focused
o concise
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• Before writing:
o Identify the purpose
o Estimate the scope
o Consider the audience’s needs
o Select a communication channel
o Collect the information
Purpose
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o request or provide information
o create a record
o explain a policy or procedure
o provide instructions
o encourage action
o promote goodwill
Scope
• Length
• Level of detail
• Format
Audience Profile
• Who are they?
• What do they know about the topic?
• How will they respond?
• Do they have any particular needs or
expectations?
• Organization’s
requirements:
o Accuracy
o Speed
o Cost
o Permanent record
o Organization
preference
• Audience
requirements:
o Size of audience
o Location of audience
o Privacy
o Opportunity for
feedback
Medium or Channel
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o Richness
o Importance of message
o Formality
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• Skip around
• Take a break
• Practice freewriting
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1. A Tactical Approach
to Writing Your
Grant Proposal
Tannaz Moin, MD, MBA, MSHS
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December 8, 2022
Special thanks to Drs. Catherine Sarkisian and O. Kenrik Duru
2. 4-6 Month Time-line:
1st month
• Pick a high-impact topic you love and get excited to be creative
o Should be natural extension of your K work
• Draft Specific Aims
• Start to put together scientific team
• Meet with admin team – map out calendar and divide up tasks
o Find out who can help you and what key dates are
(i.e., resources, budget, DSMP, figures, references etc. . . )
o Set target dates to get drafts to Co-Is
• Consider vacations, hospital attending etc.
• Schedule CTSI grant studio if possible
3. 3-4 Months Out:
Meet with your
Program Official
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awardees get R01s
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• Will he/she/they will read your specific aims?
• Suggestions re study section?
• (Cover letter can mention your PO)
• (Send thank you email and copy of grant)
4. Putting Together Your Team:
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• Each team member needs to be making unique/
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• Consider linking with strengths of your institution
• Will be attractive to reviewers
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• Think carefully about subcontracts
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• Balance of seniority levels
• Think about division needs
• Choose people you want to work with
6. Developing
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Leadership
Style
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• Emulate PI’s you admire
• Consider formal leadership training
• Be very clear to Co-I’s what is expected
• Exact role?
• How many meetings? Format? Travel?
• What % time covered?
• Authorship?
7. Start Budget Early
• Tension between being economical and practical (talk to your PO)
• Agencies like low-budget projects BUT
• Make sure you can do the work!
• And, likely to get across the board cuts
• Budget justification is CRITICAL
• Investigator time:
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• 5% time for Co-Is can be red flag to reviewers
8. Don’t Under-budget:
• Project Director salary
• Ground transportation for staff
• Cell phones and service
• Translations
• Data storage
• Publication fees for open access journals
9. Writing
Your
Grant
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• Write first. Do not wait.
• Remember your audience
• Few MDs
• May know nothing about your area of research
• Make it easy on the reviewer
• White space, figures, tables, colors
10. Telling Your Story:
Preliminary Studies
• Purpose:
• (Findings that support your
hypotheses)
• Most important: to show the
reviewer your team has
experience to do the project
11. • Discuss trade-offs of your
design decisions
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individual vs. cluster?
• Can do this throughout or in
summary section towards end
of approach section
• How will you deal with
potential problems?
Show that you have
considered potential
obstacles/ tradeoffs
and how you will
address them
12. Make it Easy for the Reviewer
• Use exact language from program
announcement
o “the stated aim of this program announcement is
XXX and our project addresses this by . . . . “
• Remind reviewer of specific review criteria
and state specifically how your project
addresses
o Consider bulleted sections
o Significance
o Investigators
o Innovation
o Approach
o Environment
13. Avoid Common Pitfalls
• Write face page (abstract) early and circulate
• Don’t be unjustifiably overambitious
• Convince reviewer of feasibility
• Preliminary studies
• Benchmarks
• Alternative plans
• Institutional support
• HAVE FUN!