Morgan Giddings - SCI•FOUNDRY

May 17, 20212Comments

How To Write a Specific Aim – 3 Parts to a simple and clear aim that your reviewers will “get”

The Specific Aims (for NIH) or Objectives (NSF) are the key to what you are proposing. You want them to be not only clearly understandable to your reviewer (right?), but

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

November 15, 20182Comments

How to write your NIH Approach Section, without overloading yourself or your reviewer

In today's blog post, I made a short video (< 8 min) for you on the topic of writing the Approach Section of your NIH grant proposal. A lot of

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

NIH Grantwriting

November 17, 201514Comments

You’ve got your NIH grant score results, now what?

Once you have your NIH score (or non-score), it’s only the beginning of the process that will determine whether, when, and how much of your grant will be funded! The next steps that you take are very important, so let's explore how to navigate them.

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

NIH Grantwriting

November 19, 20133Comments

The NIH Significance and Innovation Sections: demystified

One of the great things about working with some top scientists to hone their grant-getting skills is that I get to hear really good questions that they struggle with. One question

by Morgan Giddings

Building a Research Career

Grantwriting

September 18, 20133Comments

Working hard does NOT mean success (at grants or anything else)

There’s this persistent myth that I need to tear down once and for all. Maybe it won’t all happen in this one blog post, but by God I’m gonna give

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

October 30, 20120Comments

Speed writing your grant proposal

Grants are now officially “hyper-competitive(TM).” I’ve seen more than one great grant not quite make the cut, because there were even better grants in the pool for that round. Dealing with this

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

June 25, 20122Comments

NIH Grant Writing Tips: The Significance of “Significance”

Once upon a time, the NIH had you lead the body of your grant proposal with a section titled “Background and Significance.” Then they messed everything up by taking out

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

June 13, 20127Comments

NIH Grant Writing Tips: The new format – significance, innovation, approach

Recently the NIH completely redefined the format requirements for research grants. There were many changes, but one that seems to create a big mess of confusion is the redefinition of

by Morgan Giddings

Academic Life

Grantwriting

January 31, 201211Comments

Science for the sake of it, or science for dollars (euros)?

After a recent web seminar I hosted to help people write grants that are more likely to get funded, I got a note from a writer overseas that raised an

by Morgan Giddings

Grantwriting

January 16, 20125Comments

Crafting your NIH biosketch “personal narrative”

On a recent webinar about State of Grants in 2012, I mentioned that the personal statement part of the NIH biosketch is a great opportunity to additionally “market” your project.

by Morgan Giddings

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