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 Proposal Development

Helping you develop competitive critical care grant proposals

 
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How We Help

The Weil Proposal Development team provides strategic services including consultations, finding funding, and editing FREE for any Weil member writing a grant proposal related to critical care. Our goal is to get you funded.

We also offer additional paid services for investigators who want extra grant support. The cost for additional services is waived for PIs including a Weil Research Core (Animal Lab, Clinical Research, Data Science) in their proposal budget.


Proposal Support

Finding Funding & Grant Planning (FREE)

  • Finding funding opportunities and assessing project fit with FOA

  • Grant writing consultation & strategy meetings

  • Proposal file checklist & timeline

  • Proposal file templates based on FOA

Request 2+ months before due date

Editing for any Proposal Files
(FREE)

  • Review for clarity, persuasion, logic, organization, consistency, & reviewer friendliness

  • Ensure alignment with sponsor/FOA

  • Ensure grammatical accuracy

  • Reduce text to meet page limits

Request 1+ month before due date

Paid Services*

*Costs commensurate with services needed; may be waived as noted above

  • Draft non-scientific files (e.g., letters, facilities) & narrative portions when appropriate

  • Proposal figure and graphics support

  • Additional strategic support as needed (e.g., contacting Program Officers, planning resubmission responses, facilitating team meetings)

Request 3-4+ months before due date

Why Work With Us?

We have years of experience helping investigators develop competitive grant proposals. We have supported hundreds of grant submissions, resulting in over $50 million dollars in funding for Weil members and teams.

Our funding success rate was 37% for proposals submitted in the past few years--almost twice the average NIH/DoD success rate!
 

Ready to Get Started?

"We can’t thank the Proposal Development Team enough for their leadership, management, coordinating, coaching, and editing without which this funding would not have been possible."

Robert Neumar, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine, speaking on his $3.7M large-scale grant award from the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network

For more information, contact:

Meagan Ramsey, PhD
Manager, Proposal Development Team