From The NIH Catalyst, Volume 3, page 23.

Using LaTeX for NIH Grant Applications

If you are a computer scientist, you'll want to use LaTeX. Some NIH folks are using LaTeX these days: Here is a great site from Dr. Schneider's lab at NIH describing the advantages of LaTeX over Word for your proposal.

Here is a sample page from one of my R01's, so you can see what these LaTeX files produce.

Quick start: Here is the "blank" version for use with electronic submissions to NIH. Almost all NIH grant applications use this format, so the "blank" format plus the bio sketch is pretty much what you need to write your grant.

To get the files: Download from CTAN, nih.zip, nih.tgz, or my source files. I usually use nih-blank.cls now. But you can also find nih.cls (in the zip file), which conforms to "PHS 398/2590 Rev 09/04."

If you make improvements or enhancements (e.g., to the .sty or .tex files) I would be grateful if you could send me a copy, to this Email.


--- Bruce Donald.

Links

1. http://csb.stanford.edu/levitt/Grant_Hints.html
2. http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/pdf/howto.pdf
3. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm
4. http://chroma.med.miami.edu/research/Ellens_how_to.html
5. http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/deptwebs/microbio/web-walk/nih-grt2.htm
6. http://www.meddean.luc.edu/lumen/DeptWebs/microbio/web-walk/nih-grt.htm
7. http://www.nigms.nih.gov/funding/tips.html
8. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/SponsoredResearch/howto.pdf
9. http://www.womeninneuroscience.org/media/grant_turkkan1.pdf
10. http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_tips.htm
11. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/fund/grants_process/grantwriting.htm
12. http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2000/06/22/6