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Subscribe today at: XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigators.org/free_e_alert.php ________________________________________________________________________ No. 8, December 21-December 25, 2009 Grant Clinic: Grant Application Budget Reader Question:=A0 Do the reviewers look at the budget, and is it taken into account as a revi= ew criterion? How does one ensure that a budget will be viewed as realisti= c? =20 Expert Comments:=A0 In theory, the reviewers are not supposed to take the budget into considera= tion - that is for the council, which meets several months after the study = section. The study section reviewers' job is to evaluate, and assign, a pr= iority score, to the science and feasibility (at the broadest level). However, the budget is there if the reviewers want to take a look at it - I= do - and may be factored into their scores, albeit unnamed as such. After= all, it is one measure of the PI's experience and judgment.=20 If the budget is deemed inadequate, you may be told that your proposal is View the remainder of the expert comments at: XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigators= .org/news.php Comments by=A0William Gerin, Ph.D., Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Penn= sylvania State University. Author, Writing the NIH Grant Proposal: A Step-= by-Step Guide SAGE Books (2006) Agree? Disagree?=A0Submit your comments at: XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigators.o= rg/news.php ________________________________________________________________________ ??Preview of Next Week's Question?? No. 9, December 28-January 1, 2009 Reader Question:=A0 A month ago I was flying to a convention of my research specialty in San Fr= ancisco, and in one of my checked bags was my notebook computer and three d= iscs of raw data (non-encrypted) on about 800 patients we have enrolled in = a clinical trial. But the airline lost the bag in transit. 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No. 8, December 21-December 25, 2009

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Grant Applicati= on Budget

Reader Question:=A0Do= the reviewers look at the budget, and is it taken into account as a review= criterion? How does one ensure that a budget will be viewed as realistic?= =20 =20

Expert Comments:=A0In th= eory, the reviewers are not supposed to take the budget into consideration = – that is for the council, which meets several months after the study= section. The study section reviewers' job is to evaluate, and assign, a p= riority score, to the science and feasibility (at the broadest level).

However, the budget is there if the revie= wers want to take a look at it – I do – and may be factored int= o their scores, albeit unnamed as such. After all, it is one measure of th= e PI's experience and judgment.

If the budget is deemed inadequate, you = may be told that your proposal is

View the remainder of the expert comments

Comments by=A0William Gerin, Ph.D., Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University. Author, = Writing the NIH Grant Proposal: A Step-by-Step Guide SAGE Books (2= 006)

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