Getting Feedback on First Draft of Specific Aims
I’m sending out the first draft of my specific aims section today for some feedback on my ideas. I am going to send it to the cardiologist who is working closely with me on this submission as a Co-Investigator and my project director who has been working with me for the past 10 years. No eyes have seen this yet but mine, so it is the first feedback on it. After I hear back from them (and most likely make some revisions), I’ll call and make an appointment to talk with my program officer at NIH. Depending on what he says, I will then revise and share it with some colleagues who are relatively naïve to this area of research, but who are good grant reviewers and who I can depend on to give me honest feedback about clarity, significance, innovation. Despite years of grant writing, it is still scary to put your ideas out there for this kind of feedback. Better now than later, I guess.
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