Brad Hall

Drafting an application for a grant or an IIT (Investigator-Initiated Trial) can take an enormous amount of time and effort, so you want to be sure that your proposal has the highest chance of being funded. While there is always an element of luck, you can beat the odds by ensuring that your IIT stand out from the rest. In this article, we’ll highlight some of the critical factors that reviewers are looking for and how you can use them to your advantage to ensure your application is a success.

Drafting a proposal for an IIT (Investigator-Initiated Trial) or a grant is a difficult task even for the most seasoned academic. Even harder is crafting an application that will be successful and approved for funding. In this article, we’ll share some of our in-depth strategies to help you write your next application and improve your chances of success.

Have you identified an unmet medical need that needs to be addressed? The next step is to generate potential ideas for clinical studies and filter the best to put forth in a proposal. Keep in mind that because funding for studies is highly limited, so good selection criteria can help save you a lot of wasted time and effort.

Whether you’re writing a grant proposal or an Investigator Initiated Trial, the first critical step is to identify the unmet scientific or medical need. Too often is this step overlooked or rushed, which makes it a lot more difficult to develop a convincing idea for a funded study.  In this post, we’ll share with you our detailed approach to identifying and evaluating an unmet need for your applications.

You’ve come across an excellent idea for a study that you think would be worthwhile to submit as an Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT), but how and where do you begin? In this article, we’ll describe all the steps and general tips for submitting a successful ITT application.

Clinical trials are the gold standard for getting new drugs and products on the market, but this lengthy process can often leave many unanswered questions, or in some cases, even spark new ideas. For instance, could there be other therapeutic applications of the drug or ways to improve its efficacy and safety? How does the drug compare with another product from a different company in terms of efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness? In these situations, an Investigator-Initiated Trial, also known as an IIT, can help shed light on these questions and possibly even lead to exciting new information, discoveries and innovations.

After many months of completing experiments and analysis, it is time to prepare your research article for submission and to select a journal. Journal choice is an important decision to make. Selecting the wrong journal can mean publishing delays or poor readership of your research. In this article, we provide tips on how the make the right journal choice.

Like presenting a conference paper, presenting a conference poster is a great way to showcase your research. Preparing an effective conference poster can attract attention and lead to meaningful interactions with other conference goers. However, if your conference poster is prepared poorly, you may be left standing awkwardly next to your poster while no one stops to read it. In this article, we outline how to create an effective conference poster.