Receive funds: Receive funds

Receive funds:

• Receive funds:

• Research and non-research – improve knowledge and society
• Interact with scientists, technologists, and academicians – nationally and internationally – meetings and publications
• Receive royalties for inventions
• Career advance

Research

• Research

• Educational – new programs

• Facility, institution building,

• Equipment

• Conference, training

• Non-academic – health club, swimming pool, child care center, etc

Hypothesis

• Hypothesis

• Literature search
• Patent search
• Discuss with collegues
• Choose a mentor
• Keep updating the relevant knowledge by attending conferences, reading journals, etc.

Intramural and extramural

• Intramural and extramural

• Advertisement – journals, newspapers, newsletters, internet – websites,

• Contact relevant agency eg. ICMR for medical research, AICTE for Engineering and Technologies, etc.

• Office of grant administration

Writing “letter of intent”

• Writing “letter of intent”

• Propose your plan
• Ask relevancy to the granting agency
• When to apply
• What is the budget limit
• When will the grant be initiated if awarded
• Success rate

Summary

• Summary

• Introduction

• Aim or objective

• Method

• Significance

• Budget

• Regulatory info

One page

• One page

• 2-3 lines on introduction

• Clearly state the objectives

• Methods to achieve the objectives

• Significance of the proposal

Basic info – no complex

• Basic info – no complex

• Preliminary work – publications

• Feasibility – facility, equipment, library, other collaborative investigators, other projects ongoing, etc.

• Evolution of hypothesis.

Overall Objective

• Overall Objective

• Specific objective

Methods should be related to the specific aims

• Methods should be related to the specific aims

• Published – but change can be allowed

• Feasible – equipment wise, skilled persons, training, etc.

• Detailed – verifiable

Should have value

• Should have value
• Financial
• Advancement of knowledge

Give a true estimate for:

• Give a true estimate for:

• Personnel (supplementary salary- percent effort)
• Supplies and reagents
• Miscellaneous
• Stationary
• Travel
• Books

Signatory authority

• Signatory authority

• National and international regulatory issues – human subjects, animals, recombinant biologics, etc.

• Waste disposal – radioactive, biohazard, etc

• Safety and ethics

Read the agreement and make sure you can follow the regulations pertaining to the awarding agency

• Read the agreement and make sure you can follow the regulations pertaining to the awarding agency

• If budget is reduced, renegotiate

• If not feasible to do the work, do not take it

Follow the reporting requirements for progresses in science and budget

• Follow the reporting requirements for progresses in science and budget

• Adhere to the timeline in the proposal

• If could not be achieved the objectives as mentioned in the timeline, justify.

Read forms and instructions

• Read forms and instructions

• Write clearly and precisely

• Explain all abbreviations and acronyms

• Edit for spelling and grammar