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Writing Your Specifics Aims CHIP Grant Workshop 2014 Amy Gorin, Ph.D. Listen Up! This is a critical section of your application. NIH. SPECIFIC AIMS: One page that can make o r break your chances of funding. Your Audience. Significance Investigator(s) Innovation Approach

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  1. Writing Your Specifics Aims CHIP Grant Workshop 2014 Amy Gorin, Ph.D. Listen Up! This is a critical section of your application. NIH

  2. SPECIFIC AIMS: One page that can make or break your chances of funding.

  3. Your Audience • Significance • Investigator(s) • Innovation • Approach • Environment • Impact

  4. The gap… Your objective… Central hypothesis… Specific aims… The payoff… http://www.grantcentral.com/index.html

  5. Introductory Paragraph • Opening sentence • Grab their interest • Current knowledge • Review state of the science for those not necessarily in your field • Lead up to the…

  6. Long-term goal • Objective • Central hypothesis • Rationale

  7. Specific Aims Paragraph • Brief and informative headlines • Hypothesis-driven • Provide the why • Avoid descriptive language • Limit to 3-4 aims

  8. Payoff Paragraph Relevance to NIH mission Significance Uniqueness of team Impact Expected outcomes

  9. Flash Mob!

  10. Too many abbreviations No logical flow Critical gap not established Overly ambitious Questionable assumptions So what???

  11. How to start? Make an outline Expand, refine, revise Get feedback (and more feedback…) Leave time for a fresh look

  12. Best. Idea. Ever.

  13. Someone has to finish second. Most important page then becomes… Introduction to Revised Application

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