Does your grant application withstand these concerns?

I know it has been a while since I posted here - lots of great things are under development. I will catch you up over the next few weeks. For now, I wanted to share with you a (random) list of concerns that have cropped up over and over again in grant review of my own work. I am hoping this list can serve as a checklist as you are working on your applications:

• Lack of preliminary data
• Lack of description / justification of a method used in the proposed work
• Sex as a biological variable not fully considered/discussed
• Rigor and reproducibility not fully addressed
• Research requires a device that is not yet built
• From figure legend not clear what exact measurement is shown (protocol, time-point etc)
• Behavioral intervention not described in detail
• Personnel: Unclear who does what.

Hope this list of help - good luck with your grant writing!

​Flavio