WRITING GRANT PROPOSALS FOR PHARMA RESEARCH/CLINICAL STUDY
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Grant writing is a skill of critical significance to the global pharmaceutical industries and clinical research professionals, as conducting high-quality clinical research studies needs large amounts of funds, which can be obtained by writing successful grant proposals. Investigators and medical writers need to conceptualize, develop, describe and refine the clinical research study to effectively write a research grant proposal. Clinical research professionals like Research Associates and Data managers’ need to create innovative and exciting grant proposals that comprise all essential documents as required by the grant review board. Different funding agencies will support different types of clinical research projects so the clinical research professionals will need to select the appropriate organization for submitting their grant proposals. Thus, the research professionals requiring grants need to have a comprehensive understanding of the grant proposal guidelines followed by the particular funding agency and write a grant proposal step by step to obtain the desired funds for the study.
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Grant Proposal Writing for Pharma Research There are some important factors that Pharmaceutical companies and other related researchers need to take into consideration to prepare a proposal for pharmacy research, which can satisfy the requirements of the personnel who review regulatory documents for awarding grants. ● Carefully written abstract The abstract is a critical portion of the grant proposal and is the first section that is read by the reviewers of the grant. The abstract portion writing needs to highlight the nature of the research problem, the need for the study, research methodology and research hypothesis and has to engage the reviewer’s interest in a sustained manner. ● Ethically Acceptable Proposals The grant proposal needs to conform to all the ethical considerations involved in the research project like drug efficacy, safety, toxicology and informed consents of the participants involved in the study. To successfully secure the desired grant, the objective of the research needs to emphasise on the development of more efficacious and safer treatment options to enable better patient care. ● Conceptual Clarity and Appropriate language There is a great possibility that the grant proposal reviewer may not be from the same field as that of the researcher submitting the proposal. Hence the proposal needs to be concise, transparently clear and written in a language that is easily understandable by the reviewer without any difficulty. ● Integration of research team inputs The grant proposal writing needs to incorporate all the critical inputs relating to the clinical research from various personnel involved in the specific project like study coordinators, chief medical officers, statisticians and clinical pathologists. ● Outsourcing Grant Proposal Writing © 2017-2018 All Rights Reserved, No part of this document should be modified/used without prior consent PEPGRA Healthcare Pvt Ltd INDIA: Nungambakkam, Chennai, 600 034. UK: The Portergate, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield, S11 8NX. Email:info@pepgra.com, Web:www.Pepgra.com.
A structured research grant proposal is a time-consuming process that needs considerable time, planning and expertise to put together different sections of the proposal in a clear and concise manner.Major challenges faced in grant proposal writing involve developing various sections that comprehensively describes the research design and statistical analyses planned in the study. Grant proposal writing services comprising experienced grant-writing consultants can be of great assistance to the researchers and the pharmaceutical companies in developing a suitable proposal research design and write the analysis plan in a language that is free from common writing errors like typos, sentence structure, and grammar mistakes. Thus, it is advisable for the clinical research professionals and pharmaceutical companies to take the assistance of professional grant proposal writing service providers to develop a high-quality grant proposal to secure necessary funds from the private funding companies, foundations, and government agencies.
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Dr. Nancy, Editor-in-chief, PEPGRA Healthcare Pvt Ltd.
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