• Burroughs Wellcome Fund & HHMI
  Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty was developed from presentations and discussions that took place in a course for new investigators by Burroughs Wellcome and HHMI.  You may download this book, as a PDF file.  See Chapter 9:  “Getting Funded.”

• NIH-NIAID
  Grant Writing Checklists 

• NIH-CSR
  Grant Writing Tips Sheets - A compendium of various NIH institute guides and tip sheets, including one titled “Tips for New NIH Grant Applicants” and “A Straightforward Description of What Happens to your Research Project Grant Application After it is Received for Peer Review”

• NIH-CSR (Center for Scientific Review) 
  Study Section Rosters - Here you can view:

1. Description of the kinds of research appropriate to each study section
   
2. Name and contact information of the Scientific Review
   Administrator (SRA) who has overall responsibility for the peer review process
   
3. Roster of reviewers for upcoming cycles

Use this site to find the names of study sections in your area of

research. This information is key to your NIH application cover

letter. NIH encourages applicants to contact Scientific Review

Administrators to discuss planned submissions and to be certain

that the proposal is directed to the appropriate review group. 

• Mimi Zeiger
  Essentials of Writing Biomedical Research Papers, 2nd edition.  New York:  McGraw-Hill, 2000.  This is an outstanding how-to book that includes sections about sentence structure, paragraph structure, and each of the components of biomedical research papers (including the introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, abstract, and title). 

• Stedman’s Online Medical Dictionary
  http://stedmans.com - If you are not sure about the correct spelling or nomenclature for biomedical terms, you may find this a useful resource.