Thank you again for providing review copies of this excellent book. I am recommending it to all my faculty and plan to give it to each of my Ph.D. candidates at graduation.

Those wise enough to implement (Dr. Reif-Lehrer's) advice will spare themselves and the chain of reviewers much unnecessary toil and disappointment. I will gladly recommend this sensible, well-tempered book to my students and colleagues.

As the author of many grant proposals, I wish that your book had been available when I first stared writing them. As a reviewer, I wish that EVERY potential grantee had a copy of your book to use as the basis for writing: it would have made my and other's job of evaluation much easier. The guidance you give on the process of developing an idea into a proposal is worth its weight in gold.

At long last, I have succeeded in getting an RO1 grant application funded by the NIH. I am sure that I owe my success, in large part, to your book.

, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

The sections covering organization, writing style, presentation, preparation, and revision of a grant proposal are clear, concise, practical, and some of the very best I have ever seen. The (NIH) RO1 (investigator-initiated) grant application is used as the primary example to lead the reader patiently and carefully through the long maze of complicated and often frustrating steps necessary to bring the process from start to finish. Since the same principles apply for all grants, the information will be useful regardless of the granting agency of interest to the reader.