Probably the most important parts of your National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 application are those in which you describe your proposed research. In particular, these are the Specific Aims and Research Strategy sections. They address your project’s Significance, Innovation and Approach, which are three of the five core grant criteria that reviewers use to score your application. As a matter of fact, these sections are the ones you will spend most of your writing time on.

At the same time, these sections will heavily influence your application’s Overall Impact score. Unfortunately, there is no template for incorporating overall impact into your application, and there is no section called “Overall Impact” — or even an incentive to simply add a paragraph labeled as such. Consequently, this report examines how you can use the Specific Aims and Research Strategy to perform double-duty:

• Fulfill the Significance, Innovation and Approach criteria
• Support the Overall Impact of your research

Must-have, step-by-step expert guidance includes:

• Avoid the dreaded “overly ambitious” reviewers’ critique with advice from the experts
• Are your Specific Aims “sequential” or “parallel”? 1 Way to know for sure
• One section holds the key to completing the rest of your application. Learn the easiest place to start
• How to make the argument that your research is “translational” — Key language every grant-writer should know
• Effectively craft your Innovation section: Here’s how
• Reviewers focus specifically on your Approach — Make sure yours passes muster
• How much preliminary data is really necessary? Know where to draw the line

PLUS! This 53-pg special report includes sample language from NIH funded applications specifically focused on these sections!

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A research strategy is not just about experiments, but how you think about solving the problems raised. To successfully meet the requirements of the research strategy component of the NIH grant you must provide a clear picture of your research and its impact, how you will overcome challenges and what you hope to accomplish.

Learn how by joining grant writing expert, Dr. Dorothy Lewis, during her Webinar “NIH Research Strategy: Actionable Next Steps to Develop a Winning Proposal.” You’ll walk away from this valuable Webinar with actionable next steps to help you tackle each component of the research strategy and develop a winning proposal.

5 Key Take-Aways:

• Importance of clarity in the specific aims and matching to approach section.
• How to impress the reader regarding innovation and your credentials.
• Level of detail needed in approach.
• Importance of focusing on strategy, not INDIVIDUAL experiments.
• Importance of showing the reader that you can interpret your own data.

This webinar is perfect for scientists who need assistance on:

• How to make specific aims related but not dependent.
• How to make the innovation stand out.
• How to convince the reader that you are the one to do the work.
• The level of detail needed in preliminary data and research plan.
• Importance of showing the reader that you can interpret your own data.

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