Finding the Idea
- Keep a lab notebook
- Look for opportunities for exposure to what is a hot topic in your field
- Find an area in which you can fill a gap in the research somewhere and that will allow you to answer a pertinent Question
- Find out who's on the study section for the grant review (it's online)
- Do a literature search on their name(s)
- Address something related to what they're doing
- Cite them in your grant proposal
- If there is someone you're afraid of being on the review committee for your proposal, send your proposal to them in advance and ask them to review it. Then they cannot be permitted to review your proposal.
- Write to the people who are reading it. They are people. Make it meaningful and interesting.
- Preliminary work with a small sample to make sure the project is feasible.
- Demonstrates good potential for overall project success.
- Makes you think through the whole process.
- Get IRB approval any time you think you might publish an article on your study/project.
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