Developing strong grant writing skills is essential for all Neurology faculty, and absolutely critical to the successful promotion of any faculty who plan to go up for promotion under Scholarship as area of distinction. You must take advantage of as many local and external resources as possible to improve your grant writing skills. This section of the website provides a series of published work that helps with grant writing. Important resources are also available at the Departmental and Institutional levels. You must plan to attend those events when offered. Department of Institutional Resources include:
Published Manuscripts and Books (in order of usefulness)
- Russell, S.W., and Morrison, D. C. (2009) The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook – National Institutes of Health, Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, LLC: Los Olivos, CA. (grantcentral.com)
- Inouye, Sharon K., and Fiellin, David A. An Evidence-Based Guide to Writing Grant Proposals for Clinical Research Ann Intern Med, 2005;142:274-282.
- Porter, Robert. Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals. The Journal of Research Administration, 2007;38: 37-43.
- Urrutia, Raul. Academic Skills: A Concise Guide to Grant Writing. Pancreatology 2007; 7:301-310.
- Gill, TM, McDermott, Mary M, Ibrahim Said A., et al. Getting Funded Career Development Awards for Aspiring Clinical Investigators, J Gen Intern Med; 2004;19:472–478.
- Friedlander, Andrew J. and Folt, Carol L. (2009) Writing Successful Science Proposals, 2nd ed. Yale University Press: New Haven.
- Katz, Michael Jay. (2009) From Research to Manuscript A guide to scientific writing, 2nd ed. Springer: Springer Science + Business Media: NY.
- Yang, Otto. (2005) Guide to Effective Grant Writing How to write an effective NIH grant application, Springer Science + Business Media: NY.
(Note: somewhat outdated because of new NIH guidelines)
General Proposal Writing Resources
- Proposal Writing for Grants (source - University of North Carolina)
- Research Development - Proposal Development Resources (source - Texas A&M University)
- Introduction to Proposal Writing (source - Grant Space)
- Grant Proposals (or Give Me the Money!) (source - University of North Carolina)
Learning from Failed Proposals
- Proposal Preparation (source - Montana State University)
- How to Fail in Grant Writing (source - The Chronicle of Higher Education)
NIH-Specific Guidelines
- Grant Writing Advice (source - NIH)
- Foreign Grant Applicants (source - NIH)
- Writing a Human Subjects Protection Section (source - NIH)
- Writing an Animal Protection Section (source - NIH)