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How to increase your funding chances: common pitfalls in medical grant applications.

This commentary identifies 16 items to consider when trying to achieve success with grant applications.

May All Your Wishes Come True: A Study of Wishes and How to Recognize Them

A wish is “a desire or hope for something to happen.” In December 2007, people from around the world offered up their wishes to be printed on confetti and dropped from the sky during the famous New Year’s Eve “ball drop” in New York City’s Times Square. We present an in-depth analysis of this collection of wishes. We then leverage this unique resource to conduct the first study on building gene...

Best Wishes for Your Successful Completion of the Examination!

Please remember that this is a closed-book examination. You must be prepared to answer 4 of the 7 questions. Although not necessary, you may prepare written answers, overhead figures, or any type of materials that you think might be useful in the presentation of your answers. You may bring such preparation materials with you to the examination. The oral examination itself will not extend beyond...

UAH/NASA EPSCoR Core Infrastructure Seed Grant

Surveys of current status in biomedical science grant review: funding organisations' and grant reviewers' perspectives

BACKGROUND The objectives of this research were (a) to describe the current status of grant review for biomedical projects and programmes from the perspectives of international funding organisations and grant reviewers, and (b) to explore funders' interest in developing uniform requirements for grant review aimed at making the processes and practices of grant review more consistent, transparent...