Weeks after lawmakers in the United States rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, funding still isn’t flowing to researchers. (Nature | 8 min read) (NIH Reporter; adapted from Jeremy Berg)
Grant Slowdown
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Has AI Changed Your Proposal’s Audience?
The first rule of writing? “Write to your audience!” For scientific and medical grant proposals, that audience comprises our human scientist and stakeholder peers. Or does it?
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Reviewers want to fund scientifically sound projects with the potential for great impact on health outcomes for all patients. Understand and acknowledge these expectations, then address them with the appropriate evidence to address those concerns.
You’ve designed your study in league with your community engagement and research teams. You have secured IRB approval, and you have drafted your funding proposal in collaboration with your site PIs and research team. Even with all the moving parts required for a study with human subjects, the research design has come together well.
Then you look at your estimated enrollment across study sites and stop short. They’re skewed. What to do now?
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