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Grants Submission Unit Services

Editing and Proofreading the Grant Application: 

• Drafting grant writing outlines
• Creating a detailed checklist of required components 
• Reviewing and editing documents to ensure responsiveness to the RFA, clarity and internal consistency across all documents (i.e., ensuring personal statements in biosketches are accurately reflected in the application narrative as well as matched with the budget justification).

Grant Proposal and Document Management: CTSI's GSU can review all required components of the application, organize the collection, distribution and completion of all documentation, as well as draft and distribute required templates. Some of these documents may include:

• Biosketches – collection as well as review for accuracy and consistency
• Letters of Support – individualized for each recipient
• Cast of Characters– updated frequently to ensure all key personnel and important administrative staff contacts and their required documentation are provided
• Tables and Organizational Charts – Formatting for consistency across the narrative
• Facilities and Other Resources - Collating, updating and drafting components
• Boilerplate - CTSI's GSU can provide boilerplate language and examples of program project grant components such as administrative cores and overview sections.

Administrative Support: With particular emphasis on large complex grants that require excess administrative support, CTSI's GSU will provide the personnel and expertise needed to pull together all pieces of your grant application. Some of these tasks can include:

• Meeting Initiation and scheduling w/ agenda preparation
• Meeting Minutes and Action Items
• Multi-site and sub-award site coordination
• Fielding policy, application, and RFA questions

Brainstorming: CTSI's GSU organizes brainstorming sessions with potential collaborators when researchers express interest in funding opportunities. Sessions can be in person or by web/teleconference. CTSI's GSU will also provide meeting minutes and action items/deliverables distributed after each brainstorming session to help keep track of decisions made at each meeting.

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Grant-Writing Tips:

Visit UCLA CTSI NIH Requirements page to obtain tips on the following components:

• Authentication of Key Biological and/or Chemical Resources
• Biosketches
• Clinical Trials
• Cover Letters
• Facilities & Other Resources
• Human Subjects
• Letters of Intent
• Letters of Support
• Multi PI/PD Leadership Plan
• Rigor & Transparency
• Vertebrate Animals

Obtain addtional tips on the following →

• Diversity Supplements
• General Grant-Writing Tips
• Guide to CTSI Grant Writing Resources
• K and K-to-R Grant-Writing Tips
• NIH Application Guide
• NIH Resources and Grant-Writing Tips
• Search Tools for Funding Opportunities
• UCLA's Commonly Needed Information
• UCLA Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research: Research Enhancement materials

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