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Study Section Insider: 5 Common Mistakes That Will Sink Your Grant

The challenge that all reviewers face as they try to separate the outstanding from the merely good is to convert their intuitive, emotional response to a grant into a series of bullet points that encapsulate the proposal’s strengths and weaknesses. Over the years I’ve been writing my own reviews and listening to other panelists at review meetings, I’ve come to appreciate that grants that score poorly appear to share one or more of a common set of flaws. Avoiding these pitfalls, and appreciating the issues that frequently diminish reviewer enthusiasm, should help you to write a better grant.

1. The reviewers did not find your central scientific question interesting.
2. The preliminary data are weak, and call into question the feasibility of the proposal and the validity of your central hypothesis.
3. The proverbial house of cards: the overall success of the grant depends on the outcome of a key experiment, which has yet to be performed.
4. The scope of the project is too ambitious, with multiple hypotheses or rationales that pull the grant in disparate directions.
5. The PI and/or research team lacks the experience to carry out the proposed work.

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