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Grant Writing Panel Discussion with Vijay Kuchroo, Dennis Selkoe, and Howard Weiner (moderated by Tracy Young-Pearse)

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Grant Library

Workbook and sample grants indicated below are available for check out to allow users access to full copies of grants that have been successfully funded. Please contact NIBSS@bwh.harvard.edu and indicate the files you are interested in for access:

• The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook (NIH) A comprehensive breakdown of the process and best practices. A must read for anyone applying for an NIH grant.

Examples of Successfully Funded Grants

R01s

• R01: AD Immunotherapy with a Novel CDC-Mutant Anti-Pyroglutamate-3 Abeta Antibody to Avoid Vascular Side Effects (Cynthia Lemere PhD) – grant description
• R01: Biology of Native alpha-Synuclein Tetramers in Parkinson’s Disease (Dennis Selkoe MD) – grant description
• R01: Probing Heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s Disease Using iPSCs (Tracy Young-Pearse PhD) – grant description

P01

• P01: Presenilin Biology and the Mechanisms of Alzheimer’s Disease (Dennis Selkoe MD) – grant description

R21s

• R21: Mechanistic Dissection of P-body Formation and Abnormal mRNA Degradation in alpha-Synucleinopathy (Vikram Khurana MD) – grant description
• R21: Shifting Multimers: New Mouse and Culture Models of alpha-Synuclein Truncation by Calpain in PD (Silke Nuber PhD) – grant description
• R21: Establishing a Human Cellular Model of Sex Differences in the Brain (Tracy Young-Pearse PhD) – grant description

S10

• S10: Confocal Microscope for the Study of Neurologic Diseases (Tracy Young-Pearse PhD) – grant description

K08

• K08: Protein Palmitoylation in Synuclein Pathophysiology (Gary Ho MD) – grant description

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Helpful sites for grant writing pre-research

• NIH RePorter: A list of all grants funded by the NIH
• The Neurotechnology Studio’s Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub for help with power calculations, technical feasibility, and preliminary data analysis
• The BWH iPSC NeuroHub: Support for stem cell related research