The purpose for this exercise is to allow the other members of the course to see what you have done with your web journal, and to introduce you to scientific peer review. An NIH grant proposal will be a major assignment for the course. It should evaluate a chronic disease. Psychiatric disorders can be evaluated, but only if they have a strong biologic component, thus pure psycho-social grants are not permitted. Clinical trials are permitted, but only if they are targetted towards primary prevention, and are not drug trials.
All grants are to be double spaced.
A free review of your proposal will be provided to you if you submit a printed copy of your proposal by April 4, 2001. Comments will be provided back to you on the proposal and you will then have the opportunity to revise it if you wish to do so. This review is optional and not mandatory. The final grade on the proposal will be solely based upon the quality of the proposal submitted on April 18, 2001. No proposal will receive a free review after April 4.