Between 1980 and 2001, the average age at which an investigator first obtained NIH R01 funding rose by almost 6 years (I won’t tell you what that age currently is, because I don’t want to depress you.) Yet the NIH website states, “New investigators are the innovators of the future – they bring fresh ideas […]
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A client of mine, Barry Braun, has co-authored a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek take on grantwriting: http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Fail-in-Grant-Writing/125620/ In it, the authors explore ways in which one can ensure failure. Among their suggestions: *Don’t explicitly state any goals, objectives, or hypotheses *Use lots of acronyms *Don’t give sample sizes or statistical tests *Make sure that in your “broader
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A client of mine, Barry Braun, has co-authored a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek take on grantwriting: http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Fail-in-Grant-Writing/125620/ In it, the authors explore ways in which one can ensure failure. Among their suggestions: *Don’t explicitly state any goals, objectives, or hypotheses *Use lots of acronyms *Don’t give sample sizes or statistical tests *Make sure that in your “broader
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