1. Writing Grants and Responding to Peer Reviews
Laurence Y. Katz, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Psychiatry
University of Manitoba

2. Basics of Grant Writing
Ask a clear, important and well articulated question
Review the literature (you may have been scooped)

3. Factors to Consider Who is the PI Who do you want on your team
Plan team meetings
The design of the study (admin or secondary data)
Intervention –pilot?
Sample size?
Granting Agency (local or national, i.e., how much money do you need)?

4. Writing
Sort out who is going to do what (in our lab the PI does the bulk of the writing)
Build a case for why they should give you money!!!
Be concise and clear
Follow the guidelines
Expect many drafts/revisions
Make sure you have the expertise on your team to critique what you have designed and written
Know your audience

5. Peer Review Remember that it will make your paper better
It never just gets accepted (or you have shot too low)
Read the reviews carefully and decide which points you will go with
Make the revisions to your paper
Write a letter to the editor in excruciating point by point detail describing your response to each point the reviewers have made
If you did not revise a point explain rationale