Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/22/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/22/26

Week 2: Three Things That Get Fixed in the Last Two Weeks. And One Thing That Cannot.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/15/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/15/26

Week 3: Read Your Grant Like You Are Tired, Skeptical, and Reviewing Your Eighth Application Today.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/8/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/8/26

Week 4: Your Biosketch Is Not Your CV. It Is a Trust Document.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/1/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 5/1/26

Week 5: Your Budget Tells a Story. Make Sure It Is the Right One.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/24/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/24/26

Week 6: Every Choice You Did Not Explain Is a Question Your Reviewer Cannot Answer.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/20/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/20/26

Your Score No Longer Decides. Your Critique Does.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/17/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/17/26

Week 7: Write the Sentence Your Reviewer Will Say Out Loud.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/16/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/16/26

Why AI Is Making Grants Worse, Not Better — And What It Means for Your Voice

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/12/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/12/26

The Encourager Who Rarely Gets Encouraged

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/10/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/10/26

Week 8: Your Significance Section Is a Closing Argument. Write It Like One.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/3/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 4/3/26

Week 9: Stop Writing and Start Talking.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/27/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/27/26

You Have 10 Weeks Until the June 5 Deadline. Here Is the One Page That Decides Everything.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/27/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/27/26

Your Significance Section Reads Like a Term Paper. Here Is What It Should Read Like Instead.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/25/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/25/26

How to Write the Significance Section of Your NIH Grant: It's Not a Literature Review

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/20/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/20/26

Factor 2 Is Where Your Grant Actually Dies. Here Is How to Fix It.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/19/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/19/26

I Just Sat Through 10.5 Hours of NIH Study Section. Here Is What I Learned.

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/18/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/18/26

Grant Writing for Early Career Investigators: The Stigma of Being New

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/12/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/12/26

When Fewer Grants Get Funded, Translation Becomes the Deciding Factor

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/11/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/11/26

How to Write a Specific Aims Page That Reviewers Actually Read

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Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/11/26 Lisa Carter-Bawa 3/11/26

Why Good Grants Get Triaged: It's Not Your Science. It's the Translation.

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