Write a grant proposal

Most research is funded through grants, and to get a grant, you must write a grant proposal. Our group generally finds funding through the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and the NSF (National Science Foundation), which have distinct and well-known grant proposal styles. Collected here are links to guidelines and examples for writing grants in these styles.

NIH

• NIH guide to proposals
• Example proposal: DTI+MRI-based Tools for Analyzing White Matter Variation by Laidlaw, Ahrens, Allman, and Bastin
  1. First submission
  2. NIH Reviews
  3. Revision A1, in response to the first round of reviews
  4. NIH Reviews of the revised proposal
  5. Revision A2, in response to the second round of reviews
• Additional tips: How to Write a Research Project Grant Application

LaTeX Templates

You can copy the files nih.cls and prop.tex in /pro/graphics/proposals/nih/bisti to serve as templates for your proposal, but please don't modify the originals.

NSF

• NSF grant proposal guide
• NSF guide to proposal writing
• Cindy Grimm's user-friendly NSF grant proposal guide