Professional Grant Writer Services
Beyond the basic grant application and management services, Ochsner offers the Principal Investigators the support of professional grant writers. Read about their basic editing and full, concierge services here.
Grant Writing Tips
- Write in a straightforward manner. (Hemmingway, not Faulkner.)
- Start with a clear statement of your research objective.
- Distinguish long-term goals from project aims.
- Connect all of the dots, especially when discussing significance. In general, reviewers will not do this for you.
- Write as if you are teaching to a general scientific audience instead of trying to impress a specialist in your field.
- Make your document free of formatting, grammatical, and spelling errors.
- Read the review criteria (if provided) before you start writing and after you finish your first draft.
- All Components (complete applications)
- Sample NIH applications
- Annotated NIH Application Forms Set (Included for information purposes only. The grants team loads these forms.)
- Biosketches
- Budgets
- Concept Papers
- Cover Letters
- Human Subjects and Clinical Trials Information Form
- Other Support
- Research Plan
- Specific Aims
