Gail Schechter, Ph.D.
President, BioIntelligence

Anatomy of a Successful Grant: How to Get from Here to There

Grants from federal agencies provide substantial funds for R&D, necessary validation of new technologies, and valuable peer-review to enhance experimental efforts. In order to partake of these benefits, companies must become knowledgeable about preparing grants or enlist the help of professional grant writers for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Dr. Schechter will lead you step-by-step through the grant process, introduce each element of the grant, and provide tips for submitting successful grants. Information about each of the following essential components will enable you to prepare winning grants: Cover letter, title, abstract, key words, specific aims, background and significance, qualifications of scientists, preliminary data, experimental design and methods, references, budgets, human welfare, animal welfare, collaborators and consultants, contractual agreements, transition from phase I to phase II, fast-track, continuation proposals, interactions with NIH, and more.

Dr. Schechter heads BioIntelligence, a consulting company specializing in grant writing for biopharmaceutical companies. For the past 10 years, she has worked closely with company scientists to craft winning grants. She has an outstanding record of receiving grant awards, including $3 million for a single company during the past year. She has experience in the pharmaceutical industry, in academic medicine, and at the National Institutes of Health. Previously, she worked for several biopharmaceutical companies to facilitate technology assessment, research collaborations, and product development. She also was a healthcare consultant specializing in clinical research. She was a clinical faculty member at the Stanford University School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. She began her career doing neuropharmacology research at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Schechter specializes in neuroscience and received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine.

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