Tuesday, April 12, 2011

I finished the third and fourth pages, "Career development/training activities" and "Training in the responsive conduct research."

"Career development/training activities" was okay, but "Training in the responsive conduct research" was really boring. I know it's important, though.

Anyway, I am now working on "Research Strategy." It's more fun.
Do I need 5 years plan for K99 or just for 2 years? I don't know. Need to ask somebody.


Dr. R

Monday, April 11, 2011

I finished the second page "Career goals and objectives"

Are you working on K99 grant? I recently finished the second page "Career goals and objectives." We still have almost two months. No worry, we can do it.

Arial, size 11, 1/2" marjin.

We need a 12 pages Research plan which includes Candidate background, Career goals and objectives, Career development/training activities, Training in the responsive conduct research, and Research strategy.
Seems like first 4 will be 1 page each and Reseatch strategy will be 8 pages. MAYBE.


Dr. R

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

I finished the first page "Candidate's Background"

It wasn't that difficult. Maybe my next step is "Career Goals and Objectives."

I think you might have to read this instruction.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/SF424_RR_Guide_General_Adobe_VerB.pdf

You can also find it in here.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/424/index.htm

Especially, the page I-131~158 of Application Guide SF424 will be helpful.


Dr. R

Monday, April 4, 2011

Let's start writing a K99/R00 grant!!!

I have been working on a Japanese grant lately and kind of finished it finally, so I guess it's time to start writing an NIH-K99/R00 grant.

But I didn't know what to start at all. Well, then, I asked my friend, who is a postdoc in a lab next to ours and submitted a K99 grant before, to give me a copy of his grant proposal. Lucky me, he said yes and gave me it.

Although he hasn't gotten the grant yet, he said his score was pretty good so that now he is submitting a revised-proposal, which means it will be super helpful for me.

I can't upload his proposal of course, but let's figure it our together.

Again, here is a list of what I need.

Internal Forms (Title and Signature)
Project Summary
Project Narractive
Facilities and other resources
Biosketch
Budget
Budget justification
Cover letter
Candidate background
Career goals and objectives
Career development/training activities
Training in the responsive conduct research
Statement by mentor
Description of institutional environment
Institutional commitment of candidates research career development (what's this?)
Specific aims
Research strategy
Biography and references cited
Vertebrate animals
Equipment
Resource sharing plan
List of referee

First I will need a 12 pages Research plan which includes Candidate background, Career goals and objectives, Career development/training activities, Training in the responsive conduct research, and Research strategy.
Looks like more than half of 12 pages are Research strategy.

I will also need a page of Specific aims.

I guess those are first things to do. Let's figure out what to do next when I finish those. 


Dr. R