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The-Life-Cycle-of-a-Grant
Grants and Funding
January 20, 2020

The Life Cycle of a Grant

The grant life cycle is an overview of an extensive and complicated process of research funding mechanism that involves everything in its entirety from proposal solicitation, application, and submission to administration. A grant life cycle is significant to comprehend otherwise complex research policies and procedures required to identify funding opportunities,…
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Resubmitting-Application-for-a-Rejected-Grant
Grants and Funding
January 20, 2020

Resubmitting Application for a Rejected Grant

Writing a grant application is not an easy feat, but successfully qualifying for one is an even tall order. Professor Nicholas Graves from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) estimated grant success by surveying samples from several applicants. He calculated that writing grant applications took 38 person-days of work each, and given the…
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lab management
Lab BasicsLab Management
January 16, 2020

Laboratory Quality Assessment

Quality assessment Quality assessment (QA) is the evaluation of the results obtained in the lab using known standards and proficiency panels in order to validate quality control and quality assurance programs. Quality assessment can be internal, where the lab’s staff performs the verification tests, or external quality assessment (EQA), where…
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lab management
Lab BasicsLab Management
November 21, 2019

Laboratory Quality Control

What is Laboratory Quality Control? Laboratory quality control is all the measures put in place to eliminate the risk of non-conforming outcomes. It involves systems that safeguard the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of lab results by ensuring the early detection of results or measurement errors and the procedures to rectify…
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Understanding Grant Application Scoring Process
Grants and Funding
November 8, 2019

Understanding Grant Application Scoring Process

Everyone knows that only the highest scoring grant proposals get awarded. For this, you have to comprehend its scoring process. There are multiple scoring systems worldwide, but the most frequently used system is of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has a certain priority scoring system to judge the…
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