Checklist for Part 3. Define Your Project
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This checklist is based on Part 3. Define Your Project of NIAID's NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal. Find more checklists at Checklists for the NIH Grant Cycle.
Table of Contents
- Scope, Amount, and Effort
- Special Requirements
- Using Consultants and Collaborators
- Multiple PI Applications
Scope, Amount, and Effort
 Will you be able to accomplish the work within the time and resources you plan to request? See Think About Scope, Amount, and Effort.
Are you keeping the scope of the research narrow?
Read why this is important in Scope.
Are you thinking about overestimating time and underestimating work? Read more in Scope.
Are you making sure that your budget stays within a reasonable target? See Amount.
Do you know what a typical budget is for a new investigator? See Amount.
Do you understand how much of your time NIH expects you to devote to the award? For more information, see Effort.
Are you making sure you are not spreading yourself too thin? Read more in Effort.
Special Requirements
Will your research have special requirements, e.g., human subjects, research animals, stem cells, rDNA, or select agents?
Can you avoid these areas and still accomplish your research goals?
Have you talked to your business office to find out if you have requisites in addition to NIH's?
Do you need to plan to share and distribute research resources?
For more information, see Will Your Research Have Special Requirements?
Using Consultants and Collaborators
If you lack expertise to complete the project on your own, will you use consultants and collaborators? See Decide the Involvement of Others.
Do you know the difference between them? Find out in Using Consultants and Collaborators.
Multiple PI Applications
Do you understand the caveats of using a multiple PI application? Read Take Heed -- You Might Want to Avoid a Multiple PI Application.
Did you discuss the appropriateness of this approach with a program
officer in the Division
of AIDS, Division
of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation, or Division
of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases?
Find more checklists at Checklists for the NIH Grant Cycle. For more information, see NIAID's NIH Grant Cycle: Application to Renewal and the All About Grants tutorials.
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