White Paper Introduction Winning grant funding is no small task. In 2019, the success rate for applications to the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the Research Project Grant (aka R01)—the bread and butter of academics all over the U.S.—averaged 19%. While the success rates vary by individual divisions of the NIH (Table 1), the average success rate translates to a roughly one in five chance. Grant Writing 101: A Quick Guide to Successful Funding National Institutes of Health (NIH) Institute & Center (IC) Success Rate Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 17.79% National Cancer Institute (NCI) 11.14% National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) 9.66% National Eye Institute (NEI) 29.52% National Heart, Lu

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