The Dirty Truth: Passion Isn't the Only Ingredient for Success
The Edge for Scholars
Although passion is often thought to be a necessary ingredient for success, we all know it’s not the only one. If you’re passionate about handwritten letters, but everyone …
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Who Are You Really Talking To?
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According to Morgan Giddings, creator of popular grant-writing resources and courses, you misunderstand the level at which you need to appeal to reviewers at study section. While you may think …
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Marathon Running, Marathon Research: Dawn Newcomb
Rebecca Helton, MA
For Dawn Newcomb, PhD, writing a grant is like running a marathon. As a veteran of six marathons since she moved to Nashville in 2007, she should know. “You have to …
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Rock Talk: Recent Data on R21 and R01-Equivalent Grants
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While many think that R21’s are easier to get than R01’s, since fewer researchers compete for them and they require no preliminary data, in fact R21’s are …
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Finding Signals in the Noise: Todd Edwards
Rebecca Helton, MA
Discovering meaning in a massive amount of random-seeming data is nothing new to Todd Edwards, PhD, a genetic epidemiologist. His career has made meaning out of many disparate parts, beginning …
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Rock and a Hard Place
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Yesterday Vanderbilt played host to NIH Director Francis Collins who spoke about “Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research”. Collins told a full house and an overflow room that big initiatives like …
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Heart to Heart: Anna Hemnes
Rebecca Helton, MA
Every day, Anna Hemnes, MD, treats patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Every day, she works to find a cure. Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a rare disease that narrows and stiffens …
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Nifty Things from Open Mike
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NIH’s Rock Talk is now Open Mike, a blog by Dr. Michael Lauer, the Deputy Director for Extramural Research. He and his team have been posting some cool stuff …
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A Grant Submission New Year's Resolution
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Half of us make new year’s resolution, but fewer than 1 in 10 succeed. Many of these resolutions involve getting over a tendency to procrastinate. NIH’s Deputy Director for Extramural …
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Buckle Your Seatbelts, Motherf*$%ers...This is How You Start a Grant
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
Fighty Squirrel’s ninja-in-training Amy Palubinsky sent me this fabulous bit of prose she found on the interwebs. I absolutely believe all specific aims pages should be at least this …
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