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Top 10 Health Funding Organizations
Grants and Funding7 min read

Top 10 Health Funding Organizations

Need help with your Grant Application? Click here Biomedical research has evolved over the past few decades and, together with genetics, comprises one of the most investigated healthcare fields in the world. Biomedical advancement is not possible without research and development (R&D), which in turn, thrives upon funding, grants, and subsidy. A number of government, […]

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What a Winning Grant Application Looks Like
Grants and Funding8 min read

What a Winning Grant Application Looks Like

What Is a Grant Application? A grant application is a justified document-of-need submitted to government/private institutions, corporations, foundations, or trusts for research funding. The grant, in the form of money, salaries, expenses, travel allowances, technical facilitation, and equipment – supports the pool of emerging investigators or veteran biomedical scientists. Research funding serves as oxygen for […]

How Your Grant Application is Scored
Grants and Funding7 min read

How Your Grant Application is Scored

A grant application, submitted at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and other funding agencies, is reviewed by a panel of internal and external reviewers. These reviewers are seasoned scientists and experts in biomedical scientific disciples who judge the application on five critical parameters, namely; Significance Investigator(s) Innovation Approach Environment Based on these criteria, an […]

How to get a K award
Grants and Funding8 min read

How to get a K award

Clinical research is touted as the backbone of healthcare; it lays the foundation for scientific discoveries, medical advances, and better therapies. Research is central to our knowledge of disease and its eradication; without it, we would not have been able to discover quinine to treat disease as common as malaria that still continues to consume […]

Preparing to Write Grant Proposal
Grants and Funding8 min read

Preparing to Write Grant Proposal

Academic, clinical and medical success depends largely on the availability of grant funds which in turn depend upon the quality of research proposal and application. Grant is the lifeline of biomedical research; it brings prestige and honor to the investigator. Most importantly, it ensures financial and technical support without which research cannot be conducted. But […]

Specific Aims Section of a Grant – Why is it Important?
Grants and Funding8 min read

Specific Aims Section of a Grant – Why is it Important?

A grant application consists of several sections such as Abstract, Goals, Proposal, Methodology, and Design, etc., but the most important section is Specific Aims. Specific Aims are the crux of the application; they summarize the hypothesis, methodology, scientific basis as well as the literature gap of the research proposal. This section makes the first and […]

What is Grant Proposal Peer-Review
Grants and Funding8 min read

What is Grant Proposal Peer-Review

What is Peer-Review? Peer review is the critical evaluation of a grant application. It is the cornerstone of academic research; it ensures scientific credibility and ethical standards of research proposals. It ensures funded studies and research projects are in strict accordance with the line of the funder’s mission. It is applied at the beginning and […]

rNPV: Approaches to net present value (NPV) in pharmaceutical research and development (R&D)
Grants and Funding12 min read

rNPV: Approaches to net present value (NPV) in pharmaceutical research and development (R&D)

Pharmaceutical Research and Development & Commercialization of Biotechnology Pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) is a challenging niche in which experts must find a balance between financial revenue and people’s well-being. It’s not a secret that drug discovery is a complex and expensive process. On top of that, the field of biotechnology is expanding progressively and […]

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