NIH Fellowships For Dummies

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Does a site such as this exist?

[floridabio]

http://grants.nih.gov

[Roo]

http://grants.nih.gov

OK, let's be fair here. Grants.NIH.gov is not a user-friendly site for someone who has never filed a grant before. They link you to a thousand forms with no concise explanation of what to do.

[floridabio]

If you can't navigate the website, you have no business applying for a fellowship. 

[floridabio]

Here, I did a little navigation for you: 

 

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grants_process.htm

[acetylcholine]

Perhaps I should have been more specific, floridabio.

 

I know generally what is entailed in writing a grant.  Hell, I have a relative in one of the NIH's institutes (not in my subfield) who is involved with grant stuff, and I've learned a lot about it from them.

 

However, the process seems more straightforward for people who are already applying for funding and affiliated with a lab than those who are going to grad school and have no idea where they'll end up.

[Marius]

If you can't navigate the website, you have no business applying for a fellowship.