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  • 1.  New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 14:48

    Has anyone completed the new NIH biosketch? I'm hoping that you could share some general insights in how you filled it out, especially Section C (Contribution to Science).

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    Stephen Simon
    Independent Statistical Consultant
    P. Mean Consulting
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  • 2.  RE: New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 14:56

    specific insight: I listed publications relevant to the grant proposal.

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    Lillian Lin
    Director of Statistical Consulting
    Montana State University
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  • 3.  RE: New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 14:59

    Just finished one last night.  I included 4 separate areas for part C.  So I would also say in general it is more like the old Biosketch, except that it is asking you to organize the papers rather than list them by date. By the way, thanks to Pippa Simpson for this idea and for the idea to have a couple prepared that focus on several area.

    The on-line bibliography was the biggest pain and I needed help with that from someone who had gotten it working.  That certainly could be made a lot easier if you could just refer to some specific on-line bibliographies and don't have too common a name.
    Ray
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    Raymond Hoffmann, PhD
    Professor
    Medical College of Wisconsin
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  • 4.  RE: New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 15:06

    I did one last week for an R03 submission, I based mine on the one the PI sent me which had 3-4 numbered paragraphs that described different projects and experiences.  So I did the same thing, first highlighting my methods research which was being applied to the grant along with references to two stats papers.  Then I did my next numbered point based on some work I did with a research group using a large patient registry so I could show that I had experience using such registries and the pubs that came from that work.  My third was a paragraph on general consulting and pubs that had methods that were related to the proposed project.  

    This is what was in the email that the PI sent me " The NIH biosketch rules ask for a new section called Contributions to Science. Here are the instructions:

    http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-15-032.html

    I used this tool http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sciencv/ to do mine, which I have attached as a reference."

    Good luck!

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    Jason Brinkley
    American Institutes for Research
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  • 5.  RE: New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 15:09

    Since I am most often a Co-Inv for clinical research,  I had two sections on clinical trial design research and one section on disease area collaborations.  I limited the publications to the past 20 years. 

    The MyBibliography was time consuming and frustrating to do but now that is done, should be easy to update. 

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    Roy Tamura
    Associate Professor
    University of South Florida
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  • 6.  RE: New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 15:26
    I've done one, and I have to prepare another one for a proposal due in a couple of weeks. My strategy is to create several "buckets" of publications, and use those most suited to the proposal. For instance, I've prepared four buckets that I used for proposal A above, I'll probably re-use two of those and create 2 more for proposal B, and whenever proposal C comes around I'll probably re-use some from proposals A and B and create something new for proposal C.

    A word of caution: start early. I might be extraordinarily slow, but it did take me the better part of 2 days to complete this.

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    ------Original Message------

    Has anyone completed the new NIH biosketch? I'm hoping that you could share some general insights in how you filled it out, especially Section C (Contribution to Science).

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    Stephen Simon
    Independent Statistical Consultant
    P. Mean Consulting
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  • 7.  RE: New NIH biosketch

    Posted 05-20-2015 15:37

    yes. I agree that the "bucket" approach is a good idea where you might end up with say 8 of them and then can choose which ones to include for which proposal.

    most of my colleagues say it takes 4 or 5 hours to make a new format version from old versions / CV.

    the hardest part is reconceptualizing your work into different categories of scientific contributions, whether they are methodological (e.g. clinical trials planning and monitoring, statistical method a) or applied (disease/condition, population x, study design y).

    you are also asked to explain the main findings, why those are important, etc. I have used number of times papers were cited as evidence of the importance of the contribution. I've seen others where they refer to the work impacting news / lay press as evidence of importance of the contribution.

    hth


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    Stuart Gansky, DrPH (biostatistics)
    John C. Greene Professor of Primary Care Dentistry
    University of California, San Francisco
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