Writing Grants and Responding to Peer Reviews Laurence Y. Katz, MD, FRCPC Professor of Psychiatry University of Manitoba

Basics of Grant Writing Ask a clear, important and well articulated question Review the literature (you may have been scooped)

Factors to Consider Who is the PI Who do you want on your team Plan team meetings The design of the study (admin or secondary data) Intervention –pilot? Sample size? Granting Agency (local or national, i.e., how much money do you need)?

Writing Sort out who is going to do what (in our lab the PI does the bulk of the writing) Build a case for why they should give you money!!! Be concise and clear Follow the guidelines Expect many drafts/revisions Make sure you have the expertise on your team to critique what you have designed and written Know your audience

Peer Review Remember that it will make your paper better It never just gets accepted (or you have shot too low) Read the reviews carefully and decide which points you will go with Make the revisions to your paper Write a letter to the editor in excruciating point by point detail describing your response to each point the reviewers have made If you did not revise a point explain rationale