文档介绍：Editorial
Ten Simple Rules for Getting Grants
Philip E. Bourne*, Leo M. Chalupa
his piece follows an earlier and that you are the best person to do an inappropriately formulated
Editorial, ‘‘Ten Simple Rules it. Different granting programs require application may aggravate the
T for Getting Published’’[1], differing amounts of preliminary data. reviewers, and will have a negative
which has generated significant For certain programs, it can be said impact even if the science is sound.
interest, is well read, and continues to that the work must be essentially done Length and format are the most
generate a variety of positive before the grant is awarded, and that frequent offenders.
comments. That Editorial was aimed at the funds are then used for the next
students in the early stages of a life of phase of the research program. There is Rule 5: Obey the Three Cs—Concise,
scientific paper writing. This interest some truth in this. So where Clear, plete
has prompted us to try to help appropriate, do provide some The grant does not have to fill the
scientists in making the next academic tantalizing preliminary result, making allotted page count. Your goal should
career step—ing a young sure to tell the reviewers what these be to provide plete reckoning of
principal investigator. Leo Chalupa has results imply with respect to the what is to be done, as briefly as
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