Grants and Support

Grants and Contracts Office

We have a tremendous resource in the MSSM Grants and Contracts Office (GCO). GCO is the centralized administrative office that oversees the research grant award process and provides support to faculty regarding research activities and generally assists faculty in all aspects of the pre-award process.

The GCO Web Resources section provides a list of links to information that is essential for your experimental planning and grant writing.

Links for the following topics are included:

• Animal Research
• Biosafety
• Clinical Trials
• Contacts
• Funding Resources
• Government Agencies
• Governmental Information and Legislation
• Human Subjects
• Informational Resources
• NIH
• Private Agencies

Grant Writing and Reviewing

• Advice for your NIH proposal: Things are better than they seem  
  Israel Goldberg, Ph.D.
  Health Research Associates, Rockville, MD
• R01s IN A TOUGH TIME: How you can improve your chances for success 
  Israel Goldberg, Ph.D.
  Health Research Associates, Rockville, MD

• NIH Mock Study Section Video
  "Inside the NIH Grant Review Process", is a 39-minute video developed by the NIH Center for Scientific Review. The video includes excerpts from the reviews of 3 types of NIH applications: R01 - Research project grant, K08 - Mentored clinical scientist career development grant and R03 - Small research grant.

  You may download copies of the mock proposals at http://www.drg.nih.gov/Video/video.asp#docs.

  NOTE: This video is available for viewing over the Web.
  Go to: http://www.drg.nih.gov/Video/Video.asp

• So, What Are Specific Aims?
  A Grantsmanship Seminar by Israel A. Goldberg, Ph.D., Health Research Associates, Rockville MD, March 2005
• Writing an outstanding grant Insights from the reviewer's perspective by Lloyd Fricker, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
  Author of How to Write a REALLY Bad Grant Application (and other helpful advice for scientists)
• Your Grant Application: How Does the NIH Study Section Evaluate It? Summary of insights from study section members: Terry Krulwich, Sandy Masur, Lilly Ossowski, and Karen Zier, January 2002
  
• Grant-writing, how-tos and dos and don'ts
  fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html
• Research Proposals: A Guide to Success. 3rd ed.
  Thomas E. Ogden, Israel A. Goldberg: Academic Press
• Grant Writing Manual
  www.med.upenn.edu/rpd/grants.html
• Responding to the NIH Summary Statement
  www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=112&id=1603&tcode=nws3
• Study Section Service: An Introduction
  Frank Solomon, April 2003
  www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=112&id=1613&tcode=nws3
• Business Planning: What, why, how, when
  Margaret Pastuszko, M.B.A., May 2001
  
• Picking a Research Problem — The Critical Decision
  by C.R. Kahn, New England Journal of Medicine 1994; 330 (21): 1530-1533.
  content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/330/21/1530
• Writing a Revised Grant Application
  Lloyd Fricker, Ph.D.
• How to Ask a Research Question  
  Henry Sacks, Ph.D., M.D.