New CARTI Program: Grantsmanship Diagnostics

To obtain funding, a great idea is simply not enough. Grantsmanship is the “art” of communicating complex scientific ideas and proposal to reviewers.  If your grants have been rejected or if you are not confident about your grant writing skill, submit your grants to Dr. Christy Chang, a NIH-trained grant writing coach and a NIH funded investigator, for a diagnostic review.

She will identify writing issues that make understanding the significance and the impact of your proposal more challenging. She will meet with you to review her findings and teach you the grant writing tips that experienced and successful PIs use consistently that make complex grants more digestible to reviewers.

What to submit: Completed but unfunded proposals or nearly completed applications. You can use applications to any funding mechanisms and agencies. For application in progress, please submit at least 2 pages of a draft that, to you, is well written and ready to be submitted.

Timeline: After review Dr. Chang will schedule a meeting with you in approximately 2 weeks to share her findings. For NIH grants that you plan to resubmit, please contact her at least 6 weeks before the deadlines (see an example below). It is highly recommended that you share the revised grant along with the summary statement.

How to request this service: Please use this link to set up a request.