Proposal Development
Resources to increase the quality and competitiveness of grants and all scientific materials.
NIH Application Resources
Application Process
Biosketch Formatting
Budget
Formatting your Application
Preparation
Reference Letters
Submitting the Application
Writing your application
Copy Editing and Scientific Writing
Learn more about copy editing and the services provided by the Office of Scientific Writing to our faculty on the Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville campuses.
Grant Writing Seminar Series
SESSION 1
Overview of clinical research, developing the research area, hypothesis and specific aims, issues in choosing a study design, issues in data collection.
SESSION 2
Is my proposal significant? Components of a research question, literature review and preliminary results, research strategy: significance and approach.
SESSION 5
Hypothesis and statistical testing, sample size, power, and detectable effect size
SESSION 6
Recruitment and retention; eligibility and screening; IRB and human subjects; ethics
SESSION 7
Data collection; data entry systems; data management; storage and quality assurance
SESSION 8
Data analysis strategies and how they can enhance the proposal. Outcomes, adverse events, intend-to-treat analysis (ITT), surrogate endpoints, clustering/grouping of observations, missing data, pre-planned vs. ad hoc subgroup analyses, heterogeneity of treatment effects (HTE) with respect to sex/gender and race