Resources for Research

• Awards, Grants and Funding Opportunities

• IACUC/IRB Resources

• NIH Funding Opportunities

• NIH Loan Repayment Program

• Research Tools

• Success Stories

Awards, Grants and Funding Opportunities

• Agriculture, National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

• American Cancer Society

• American Council of Learned Societies

• American Heart Association

• Army Medical Research & Materiel Command

• Army Research Office

• Arthritis Foundation

• Burroughs Wellcome Fund

• Community of Science

• Doris Duke Charitable Trust

• The University of Iowa

• Education (U.S. Dept of)

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Federal Government Grants

• Foundation for PM&R

• Funding News

• Health & Human Services (US Dept. Of)

• March of Dimes

• Muscular Dystrophy Association

• Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation

• National Endowment for the Arts

• National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health

• National Osteoporosis Foundation

• National Science Foundation

1. NSF - Award Search - Awardee Information

2. US NSF - Funding - Browse Funding Opportunities

• North American Spine Research Foundation

• ResearchResearchLite

1. Funding opportunities and news on research policy and politics

• Social Science Research Council

• Scott F. Nadler, DO, Research Grant

• Shriner’s Hospital Grants (for those in Shriner’s program). Please contact individual hospital for grant opportunities.

• World Health Organization

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IACUC/IRB Resources

• Refer to your institution’s guidelines and regulations

• Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative

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NIH Funding Opportunities

• Funding Opportunities and Notices - NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts

• National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

• NIH R03 Parent Program Announcement (PA-06-180), Contacts and Special Interests

• NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award (R21)

• PA-06-180: NIH Small Research Grant Program

• Search results for active R03 FOA

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NIH Loan Repayment Program

Research Tools

• CRISP - A Database of Biomedical Research Funded By the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

• Community of Science

• Electronic Submission of Grant Applications

1. FAQ - Prepare to Apply

2. Communication Resources and Calendar (Provides PowerPoint presentations on electronic submission)

3. Prepare Application

• Filtering the Literature
  Most of these sites give guidance on how to filter the higher quality evidence from Medline. The majority of them utilize the research conducted by McMaster University.

1. Evidence Based Medicine Toolkit

2. Evidence Based Filters for Ovid Medline

3. PubMed Clinical Queries using Research Methodology Filters

4. Search Strategies to Identify Reviews and Meta-analyses in MEDLINE and CINAHL

• Foundation Center

• Grant Writing Tips
  The NIH Web site offers many resources for grant writing. Of particular use are:

1. Grant Writing Tip Sheets

2. Getting Started at NIH

3. The glossary of NIH terms is particularly useful as a bookmark when reading NIH policy guidelines

4. Science magazine has a Web site devoted to grant writing.

5. It includes the popular series "How not to kill a grant application."

• Job Requirements for Research Assistants

1. Research Assistant (Microsoft Word file)

2. Research Technician (Microsoft Word file)

• National Institutes of Health – Center for Scientific Review
  Resources for Applicants

• New Investigator Tools

1. New Investigators Program

2. Pathway to Independence Award: PA-06-133: NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00)

3. Resources for New Investigators

4. "All About Grants" Tutorials -- NIAID Research Funding

5. NIH Study Sections

• Sample Size Calculator
  Use it to determine how many people you need in your study to have sufficient power.

• Vassar Stats – Web site for Statistical Computation

Success Stories

• Beeson Scholars

  • Neil Segal, MD

• Jahnigen Career Development Scholars

• Rehabilitation Medicine Scientist Training Program Fellows