1. Please, complete evaluations. Important to assess faculty performance
Watch video and
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Please, complete evaluations. Important to assess faculty performance

2. Pre-submission review
Pedro Fernandez-Funez, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Neurology

3. By now, you should…
Understand the complexity of the NIH grant proposal
Identify all the components
Work on a timeline to complete the proposal on time

4. Review: Key documents Documents to upload and submit: Minimum of 12
Scientific proposal:
✔Abstract
✔Narrative
✔Specific Aims
✔Research Strategy
✔References
Information:
✔Cover letter
✔PI Biosketch
✔Resource sharing
✔Facilities, Environment
✔Equipment
Budget:
✔Modular/detailed budget
✔Budget justification

5. Preview: Additional documents
Extra documents:
Key Personnel Biosketch
Support letter(s)
Consortium
Multiple PI
Proprietary info
Regulatory documents
(depending on proposed research):
Human subjects
IRB permit
Vertebrate animals
IACUC permit
Documents to upload and submit: 15-20

6. Timeline for submission
Announce intent to submit
3-4 months
Aims, Sign+Innov
for Dept. presentation
2.5 months
Complete Research
Strategy for COM
1 month
R01 deadline
Received by NIH
Aims, Sign+Innov
for COM review
2 months
Final Submission
10-15 days
Title, Biosk, budget
COI, humans? Animals?
3 months
-Upload to NIH form
-Upload on PeopleSoft
-Approvals: PI(s), Chair(s), Dean
-COM-RAC review
-DSR-UF review and submit
Budget justific, Animals,
humans, facilities
1.5 months
Jun 5
Feb
Mar 5
Mar 19
Apr 5
May 5
May 22

7. The Budget trap !
You don’t have to submit a detailed budget to the NIH, if below 250K/year
BUT, you HAVE to your college !

8. Completing the science
Project Summary/Abstract- 30 lines or less
You will need to send an introduction to application only if this is a resubmission.
Specific Aims- 1 page !!!
Research Strategy – Page limits by mechanism or guidelines (12 p. R01, 6 p. R21, R03)
Significance and Innovation: 1 page, part of Research Strategy
References Cited-Full citations, no page limits

9. Summary / Abstract
Could be considered the most important part of your application since every reviewer in the panel will likely read it
30 lines or less !
Do not include proprietary information
If awarded, it will appear on RePORTER

10. Summary / Abstract
Stand alone document: most reviewers will not read the specific aims or the proposal
Should be written last to make sure it clearly reflects the content of your proposal
Open by describing gap in knowledge followed by key sentences in the Specific Aims
Copy the Specific Aims and primary methods
Finish with statements of Significance and Innovation

11. Project Narrative No more than 2 or 3 sentences Layman language
Meant to describe the relevance to public health and how it relates to the NIH mission
Public Health Relevance/Narrative: Carolina Wahlby, 2010
Large-scale screening experiments that test the effects of thousands of chemicals or genetic perturbants by microscopy and image analysis can discover new treatments and help biomedical scientists understand disease mechanisms. Microscopy screens of cultured cells are routine, but researchers wish to study complex processes like metabolism and infection in a whole animal like the tiny worm Caenorhabditis elegans, for which existing image analysis methods are insufficient. The goal of this research is to develop open-source software to automatically identify and measure C. elegans in microscopy images, thereby making it possible for researchers worldwide to screen a wide variety of complex biological processes related to human disease.

12. Cayuse 424
New software that allows PI to prepare grant application on their own

13. Cayuse 424

14. Cayuse 424

15. MyinvestiGator

16. My Investigator

17. Remember !
Be responsive to requests from your grants people. After all, it is YOUR grant
Your grants person does not submit directly to NIH. Many internal steps to get it through the system

18. Congratulations ! You completed the course !