Grant Writing Skills

Grant writing is both a skill and an art. We have compiled courses, how-to guides and tip sheets from URMC, NIH and beyond to help you write winning grants.

Resources

• PM 438 Grantsmanship course (offered by the Department of Public Health Sciences), which helps learners develop grantsmanship skills
• Resources on writing from the Center for Professional Development
• Tips for Writing Specific Aims and The Anatomy of a Specific Aims Page by Michelle, S., PhD Bioscience writers.
• Making Your Words Count Twice: Writing Compactly for the NIH Format
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• NIH Grant Writing Resources
  • Write your application: The NIH Office of Extramural Research has tools to help you write your application, develop budgets, format attachments, and understand requirements for page limits, data tables, reference letters and biosketches.

Rigor and Reproducibility

The UR CTSI is devoted to helping teams conduct research with the highest level of scientific integrity, public accountability, and social responsibility. Below is a list of resources to help researchers meet NIH guidelines that ensure unbiased and well-controlled experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation and results reporting.

• Guidance for new grant requirements for Rigor and Reproducibility
• ARRIVE guidelines for reproducible animal research
• NIH One Page Guide to Rigor and Reproducibility
• Atlanta CTSI Ethics Podcast in Research: Reproducibility
• NIH's Enhancing Reproducibility Through Rigor and Transparency

Human Subject Protection Plan

Are you doing human subjects research as defined by the NIH Office of Extramural Research? Use this tool to find out and peruse humansubjects.nih.gov for more information on human subjects research pre- and post-award processes, clinical trial requirements for grants and contracts, policies, regulations and more.

NRSA Training Grants

The URMC Office of Graduate Education offers an NRSA Training Grant Materials Sharepoint site that includes institutional information needed for training grant applications, samples of training grant narratives, sample letters of support, and more. (*You must be on the URMC network to access this webpage.)