1.	Researchers will be asked to write a letter of intent with a brief description of their proposed project which will be assigned to a primary reviewer and secondary reviewers.
2.	Proposals will be submitted in the National Institutes of Health small grant format (ten pages or less).
3.	A budget will be needed for each proposal.
4.	Proposals will be rated by the reviewers along with a level of enthusiasm for the proposal. The method of evaluating and rating proposals will follow the National Institutes of Health descriptors and scoring system.
5.	Projects that will have an impact and allow for outside funding of future projects in the same area of investigation will have a relatively high priority.

The NIH Small Grant format consists of the following:

1.	A biographical sketch (education, relevant experience, publication list) no more than two pages.
2.	A detailed budget, with justification for anything that might look unusual.
3.	Specific Aims (usually one page), exactly what you plan to do; your hypotheses.
4.	Background and Significance. Containing relevant literature citations, that would tell the reviewer why what you wanted to do was important to someone.
5.	Experimental methods. In brief, your experimental design. Data analysis. Identify any potential problems and how they might be circumvented.
6.	Bibliography

Any experiments involving the administration of drugs to live vertebrate animals would have to have approval of a local institutional animal care committee.

Any experiments involving the administration of drugs to human subjects would have to be approved by a local Institutional Review Board.

Send proposals to: George Greer, M.D., Medical Director at george@heffter.org.

* Note: The Heffter Research Institute is a small not-for-profit 501(c)(3) institution. It is the policy of the Institute not to pay institutional overhead ("indirect costs") on any grants, so as to maximize the amount of funding for the project itself. Most institutions will accept this policy if it is clearly stated and uniformly applied to all grantees.