PO
Targetted? Or Omnibus? Where should I send as a RFA. Study group? Study section? Special emphasis panels, so not very many options. Institure; NIA.
- Phase 1 STTR R41
- Special Emphsis Panels: Typically non-permanent.
- Confirm MATCH-maker <---- NIA + R41/R43/R44
- "prior meetings: so look at the background"
- "preconception: project summary... highlight this is not what you think it is"
- "milestones: Measurable quantifiable to get in to Phase 2, whathappens if yoiu fail to reach it, what is the pivot"
- "risk mitigation"
- NIA/NIDA/NIAID examples of succesful proposals
Review criteria
- significance: Unmet need, market, if successful how aims changes the interventionas, concepts etc. Will that lead to marketable product. Prior reserach solid? 1
- investigators: Background, qualifications (personal statement, biosketch), MPI: demonstrate complemnetary skills, system in place to manage, what happens if you disagree
- Innovation: clear precisewhy approach is innovative (different from before, what it offers that other cannot) 2
- Approach: how you are doing it [how outcome of pahse 1 becaomes phase 2, backghround and preliminiary results, risk mitigation] 2
- Environment: .5
LOS
Get letter of support, explianing why what you are doing is important. (not part of project)
Budget
- Budget justification. (60%)
- compnay team: clear commercialization path (?). commercialization plan comes in phase 2. what is the plan for that. describe that in phase 1.
https://www.sciencedocs.com/specific-aims-page-behold-your-reviewer
https://www.biosciencewriters.com/NIH-Grant-Applications-The-Anatomy-of-a-Specific-Aims-Page.aspx
A very important item that you need to work on in the next couple of weeks is your budget. Here's a fairly detailed guide provided by NIH - read it carefully, and send me any questions you might have:
- https://grants.nih.gov/grants/how-to-apply-application-guide/format-and-write/develop-your-budget.htm
- Holly : do the IP