title: The peer review process: how to prepare research grant applications to the NIH.
abstract: In today's highly competitive biomedical research world, the applicant investigator should learn to present his or her research ideas clearly and prepared with a knowledge of the review process at the National Institutes of Health. It is hoped that the proposed guidelines in this article will enable experienced and not-so-experienced investigators to compete successfully in the field of biomedical research.
mesh_terms: D000827:Animal Welfare; D000818:Animals; D002017:Budgets; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D010380:Peer Review; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014481:United States