NIH Expertise

Course Library

In an effort to provide cost-effective training to the broadest group possible, we created a series of virtual, self-paced training courses. For a fraction of the cost of one-on-one consulting, Dr. Bouvier will teach you step-by-step how to write an NIH submission.

Courses

Virtual Self-Directed

All activities in the online course library have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. For detailed credit information, choose a course title.

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Writing Courses

Master the R Series and the Research Strategy of the K Series

Preparing to write your first R01 or R-series submission, or the first in a while? Unsuccessful at NIH? Need help staying on schedule?

Master Resubmissons

Your NIH submission did not go as planned. Now what?

Master the K Series

The mentored NIH K Series is often a grantee’s first contact with the NIH grant process. It can be a steep and intimidating learning curve.

Master the T32

You mastered the R Series and are dreaming of an institutional training grant to attract the most highly qualified trainees. How do you begin?

Master the P & U Series

The NIH multiproject grants can lead to the most gratifying stage of one’s career, in which one directs a research center or a hub within a cooperative network.

Grantsmanship

Optimize Your Funding Mechanism

How does one choose between the NIH R01 and the smaller-format R-Series mechanisms?

Navigate the Review Process

In this course designed for new grantees, we describe the path your application follows after upload.

Checklist to Avoid Top Mistakes

This course describes the most common mistakes seen recently on NIH grant applications.

Grow a Healthy Funding Portfolio

So you are ready to begin applying for external funding and will begin with an NIH R01, right? Probably not.

The Human Subjects Form

The PHS Human Subjects & Clinical Trial Information Form is crucially important to application success.

The 4 Rigor Scoring Criteria

This short course covers the four NIH rigor scoring criteria introduced in 2016 and revised almost every year since.

Administrators

Best Practices to Increase Funding

Over years of working with medical centers and universities on their funding portfolios, I have observed certain practices common to those who are consistently successful.

10-Week Workplan

Deadline-Push

What’s your NIH submission workplan? How do you manage your time working toward deadlines?

Course Bundles

Grantwriting Starter Bundle

We’ve created an all-new collection of online courses to help beginning NIH grantwriters learn the skills you need to be successful.

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"This is a wonderful experience for those in the scientific world and who has a desire to apply for a grant. Early career scientist should consider taking this training before submitting their first grant."

"Very, very helpful. In particular the specific, detailed, and actionable recommendations regarding elements and language to include in the grant is invaluable."

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