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.
Presenting research at a conference is a major highlight of any academic’s career. Choosing the right conference is important. Not only is attending expensive (travel costs, conference fees, lodging costs), but it is also a large time investment. The conference may span 3-7 days itself, but also preparing abstracts and the presentation takes a significant amount of time.
Predatory journal is a term, coined by Jeffrey Beall, to describe publishers who are more concerned with profit than ethics. These journals are scams. They prey on unsuspecting researchers, often targeting third tier economic areas, and masquerade as legitimate publishers.
Have you ever analyzed raw data, come back to your analysis months later, and struggled to figure out what you did? The importance of keeping a lab notebook during experiments is often drilled into researchers. However, the same cannot be said for keeping a detailed log of data and statistical analysis.
All the hard work has finally paid off. You are ready to submit your research article to your target journal. It is a good idea before you hit “submit” to double check that you have met all the journals requirements and included all relevant information.
Paying for somewhere to live is an unavoidable expense. Whether you rent or own it is recommended that no more than 30% of your income be spent on shelter costs. Is this 30% figure attainable for Canadians? In this post, we perform an analysis using r to find out, and make predictions for the future.
Researchers are under immense pressure to publish. Without publications your career will stagnate and you could find yourself unemployed and unemployable. This difficult situation is often described as “Publish or Perish.” A simple way to get early publications is to convert your PhD thesis into journal articles.
In previous posts, we talked about the advantages of using R, and demonstrated how to a solve brain teaser using R. R is also a powerful tool for predictive modelling. Predictive modelling uses available data and statistics to forecast outcomes. In this example, we use R to predict the fate of passengers on the Titanic.
In a previous post, we discussed why R is a great choice to simplify your data and statistical analysis. R has a steep learning curve at first, but with practice, the advantages of R far outweigh the initial bumps. In this post, we provide an example of using R to solve a well-known brain teaser – The Monty Hall Problem.
Data and Statistical Analysis
There are so many statistical software packages that it is hard to choose. Should you use SAS, SPSS, Stata, Statistica, SigmaPlot, R, or even Excel for your data and statistical analysis?
Reference managing software simplifies research publication. You don’t need to keep track of who you cited, in what order, or whether your reference list includes only who you cited in the paper. Software such as Endnote and Mendeley partially automate these time-consuming tasks and make your research life easier.
In a previous post, we discussed how important it is to format references before submission to a peer-reviewed journal. Each journal has a specific reference style that needs to be followed. If not, your paper will likely be rejected.
Before submitting your article for peer review, it is important to make sure that the reference style of the journal is followed. Each journal will have their own preferred style for the in-text citations and the reference list. Failure to follow the journal reference style could result in immediate rejection by the editor.
