From editor@principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org Tue Nov 24 14:52:31 2009 Return-Path: <editor@principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org> Received: from principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org (cgw-53-74.66.216-eh.jbvglobalsolutions.net [216.66.74.53]) by smtp.XXXXXXX.XXX (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nAOMqUJV001935 for <XXX@XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXX>; Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:52:31 -0800 Message-Id: <200911242252.nAOMqUJV001935@smtp.XXXXXXX.XXX> From: "PI eAlert" <editor@principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org> Subject: Your Issue: November 24, 2009 To: XXX@XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXX.XXX Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:52:29 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SCORE: 2164 Content-Type: text/html; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-FBL: 612071 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=1.12.8161:2.4.5,1.2.40,4.0.166 definitions=2009-11-24_12:2009-11-16,2009-11-24,2009-11-24 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=100 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-0911240241 <html><body class='st23804' ><table width='500' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='2' cellspacing='3' style='font-size:12px;'><tr> <td align='center'><p align='center'><a href='XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/view.php/612071/49772'>View this email as Webpage</a></p></td></tr></table><p align="center"><font size="1" face="sans-serif">Please add "<a href="mailto:editor@principalinvestigators.org">editor@principalinvestigators.org</a>" to your whitelist or address book, so that you have no trouble receiving future issues!</font></p> <table style="WIDTH: 570px; HEIGHT: 600px" border="2" bordercolor="#ff0000" cellpadding="4" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="WIDTH: 570px" valign="top"><img alt="3773" src="XXXXXXXimages.principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/imagehosting/8815/3773.gif" style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;"><br> <table width="570"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="left"><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><strong>PI e-Alert weekly e-zine is delivered worldwide.</strong></font> <font size="2" face="sans-serif">Feel free to <a href="mailto:?subject=PI%20e-ALERT%20weekly">share</a> this issue with friends and colleagues. <a href="XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/go.php/612071/49772/4006692" target="_blank">Subscribe Today!</a></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <table width="570" bgcolor="#ffffcc"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="left"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt" face="sans-serif">PI e-Alert </font><font style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt" face="sans-serif">features expert advice on managerial and administrative challenges which confront Principal Investigators in every field of science research. If such matters are not of interest to you or your associates, please accept our apologies and “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the page.</font></p></td></tr></tbody></table> <hr style="WIDTH: 570px; HEIGHT: 1px" color="#ff0000" noshade=""> <table style="WIDTH: 570px; FONT-SIZE: 12px"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p align="right">No. 4, November 23-27, 2009</p> <p><strong><font size="5" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Grant Clinic:</span></span></font></strong></p><p><strong><font size="5" face="sans-serif">Was "too ambitious" to blame for non-funding?</font></strong></p> <p align="left"><font size="2"><strong>Reader Question: </strong><em>I recently received the reviewers' summary sheets for my first R01 research grant submission. The score was encouraging, but not fundable. The reviewers’ criticisms, however, were all mild and addressable, and did not represent specific flaws in the work itself. Two reviewers commented that the program is an ambitious one, and that perhaps I need to cut back on at least two of the proposed studies. I could easily do that, so why didn’t I get the funding? What am I missing?</em></font> </p><p align="left"><strong>Expert Comments:</strong> Interpreting the thoughts of the reviewers is a road to madness, but I might be able to read between the lines here. First, you got hit with the dreaded “A” word – ambitious. This is code for “your inexperience is showing.” Reviewers want to see originality and novel ideas or methods to some extent, but they do not want to see a proposal for a project that is so unusual or aggressive that it may not be doable. You are sure you can do it and maybe you can. But, um, “stuff happens”, and all of a sudden recruitment becomes sparse, a reagent was contaminated, something else goes wrong, and </p> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/go.php/612071/49772/4031854" target="_blank">View the remainder of the expert comments</a></font></p> <p><font size="2"><em>Comments by <strong>William Gerin, </strong>Ph.D., P.I. e-Alert’s Chief Grants Consultant, Professor of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, and Author, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Writing the NIH Grant Proposal: A Step-by-Step Guide, SAGE Books (2006)</span> </em></font></p><p align="center"><font size="2">Agree? 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However, at times misleading data could be reported to a journal or sponsor merely because of a serious, though fully accidental, mistake in recordkeeping, faulty statistical calculations etc. Does such a mixup constitute "fraud"? What is the difference in the eyes of granting agencies and legal doctrine? When and how does "accident" cross over to PI "crime"?</span></em></strong></font></p> <p align="center"><a href="XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/go.php/612071/49772/4031900"><img alt="3771" src="XXXXXXXimages.principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/imagehosting/8815/3771.gif" style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;"></a> <a href="XXXXXXXprincipalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/go.php/612071/49772/4031923"><img alt="3772" src="XXXXXXXimages.principalinvestigatorsadvisors.org/imagehosting/8815/3772.gif" style="border:0px solid;margin:0px;"></a></p></font></td></tr></tbody></table> <hr style="WIDTH: 570px; HEIGHT: 1px" color="#ff0000" noshade=""> <p align="center"><strong><em><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Missed Last Weeks's Question?</font></em></strong> </p><p align="left"><font size="2"><strong>Reader Question: </strong><em>We have a new scientist coming to my lab from China, but a corporate sponsor of our research only wants U.S. citizens working on the project. 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