NIH Expertise
Course Library
In an effort to provide cost-effective training to the broadest group possible, we created a series of virtual, self-paced training courses. For a fraction of the cost of one-on-one consulting, Dr. Bouvier will teach you step-by-step how to write an NIH submission.
Courses
Virtual Self-Directed
All activities in the online course library have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. For detailed credit information, choose a course title.
Ready to take your NIH grantwriting skills to the next level? Become a member and get access to our entire collection of self-paced online courses for a flat annual fee.
Writing Courses
Master the R Series
Preparing to write your first R01 or R-series submission, or the first in a while? Unsuccessful at NIH? Need help staying on schedule?
- 4 parts
- 2 Hours 30 Minutes
- 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Master Resubmissons
Your NIH submission did not go as planned. Now what?
- 1 part
- 1 hour 16 minutes
- 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Master the K Series
The mentored NIH K Series is often a grantee’s first contact with the NIH grant process. It can be a steep and intimidating learning curve.
- 6 parts
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- 4.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Master the T32
You mastered the R Series and are dreaming of an institutional training grant to attract the most highly qualified trainees. How do you begin?
- 4 parts
- 2 hours 50 minutes
- 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Master the P & U Series
The NIH multiproject grants can lead to the most gratifying stage of one’s career, in which one directs a research center or a hub within a cooperative network.
- 4 parts
- 3 hours 53 minutes
- 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Master the T32
You mastered the R series and are dreaming of an institutional training grant to attract the most highly qualified trainees. How do you begin?
- 4 parts
- 2 hours 50 minutes
- 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Grantsmanship
Optimize Your Funding Mechanism
How does one choose between the NIH R01 and the smaller-format R-Series mechanisms?
- 1 part
- 29 minutes
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Navigate the Review Process
In this course designed for new grantees, we describe the path your application follows after upload.
- 1 part
- 36 minutes
- 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Checklist to Avoid Top Mistakes
This course describes the most common mistakes seen recently on NIH grant applications.
- 1 part
- 42 minutes
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Grow a Healthy Funding Portfolio
So you are ready to begin applying for external funding and will begin with an NIH R01, right? Probably not.
- 1 part
- 1 hour 5 minutes
- 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
The Human Subjects Form
The PHS Human Subjects & Clinical Trial Information Form is crucially important to application success.
- 1 part
- 1 hour 22 minutes
- 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The 4 Rigor Scoring Criteria
This short course covers the four NIH rigor scoring criteria introduced in 2016 and revised almost every year since.
- 1 part
- 25 minute
- 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Administrators
Best Practices to Increase Funding
Over years of working with medical centers and universities on their funding portfolios, I have observed certain practices common to those who are consistently successful.
- 1 part
- 1 hour 3 minutes
- 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
10-Week Workplan
Deadline-Push
What’s your NIH submission workplan? How do you manage your time working toward deadlines?
- 3 cycles
- 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Course Bundles
Grantwriting Starter Bundle
We’ve created an all-new collection of online courses to help beginning NIH grantwriters learn the skills you need to be successful.
- 5 courses
