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…

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…

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…

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.…

Say you’re in a science career (or thinking about one). Say that you actually want to be as successful as possible at that endeavor. Given those two prerequisites, then we…

should science really be so boring all the time? Most talk titles I see convey that sense. But given that we need to get more people interested in science, not…