1. Session 14B:Grant Writing Tips from Multiple Perspectives Akiva Cohen – U. Penn.; NIH Grantee Naomi Kleitman – NIH/NINDS; Program Director Stuart Hoffman – VA/ORD; Program Manager Linda Noble-Haeusslein – UCSF; Review Chair

3. Learn about VA funding opportunities

6. Are you eligible to apply? Is it >$500K in any year?

7. Does your research fit the Institute mission, FOA?

8. After you’ve digested your summary statement; email 1st

9. Program Announcements “FOAs”

10. Use “Parent” FOAs; targeted RFAs are rare these days

11. Be clever: Common Fund? Blueprint resources?

12. Align your application to Review Criteria

13. Overall Impact: Help the reviewers make your case

15. WHAT are you proposing?

16. WHY is it important, timely?

17. CAN IT BE DONE (by you)?

18. WHAT will you discover or create?

19. HOW will the work Impact the Field?

20. Career Development

21. Candidate, Mentor(s); Training & Development plans

22. Resources, institutional commitment

24. Impact: the problem You chose, Your strengths/weaknesses

25. Hypothesis/impact on field, approach, feasibility, focus

26. Show the work is cutting edge, the approach is sound

27. Reviewers have to present your ideas:

28. Align your application to review criteria

29. Make it easy for them; be concise, clear, responsive

30. Scoring – tends to count up weaknesses:

31. If your record/plan has unavoidable issues: give alternatives

32. {Strength of training plan, funded/experienced mentor(s)}