Grant Support Services (Coming Soon)

Strategic, evidence-based grant support for clinicians, scientists, and research teams worldwide.

Securing competitive research funding is no longer just about a good idea—it requires flawless methodology, compelling storytelling, and strict compliance with funder expectations.

Thesis Helpline™ Grant Support (Coming Soon) is designed to help you move from a promising concept to a submission-ready, methodologically robust, and reviewer-friendly grant application.

We provide structured, ethical, and end-to-end support for:

  • NIH & U.S. federal grants (R-series, K-series, F-series, program/center grants, training grants)
  • NSF proposals across biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, and interdisciplinary science
  • Society/foundation-level grants in medical and surgical specialties
  • Indian national grants (ICMR, SERB, DST, DBT, CSIR, etc.)
  • European and international calls (e.g., Horizon Europe, ERC-style proposals, national research councils)
  • Industry and pharma-sponsored studies, IITs, and collaborative translational projects

All support is tailored for medical, surgical, nursing, biomedical, and health sciences projects, including clinicians, residents, fellows, PhD scholars, early-career faculty, and industry R&D teams.

Who Is This For?

Our Grant Support category is built for:

  • Clinicians and surgeons in academic medical centers
  • DM/MCh/DrNB/MD/MS/DNB residents and fellows preparing pilot projects or early-career grants
  • PhD scholars and postdocs applying for fellowships, career development awards, or project grants
  • Nursing and allied health professionals seeking practice-based or implementation science grants
  • Biomedical engineers and data scientists working at the interface of technology and medicine
  • Pharma and med-tech teams planning IITs, multicenter trials, or real-world evidence studies
  • Hospital/health-system administrators building outcomes, quality, or health-economics projects

Whether you are writing your first small society grant or a multi-center RCT proposal, our goal is to make your application methodologically sound, clearly articulated, and competitive.

Types of Grants & Agencies We Support

U.S.-Based & International (examples):

  • NIH: R03, R21, R01, K-awards, training grants, center/program grants
  • NSF: interdisciplinary, engineering, computational, and biomedical-adjacent proposals
  • Other U.S. federal: AHRQ, CDC, DoD, VA health research, PCORI (where applicable)
  • Society & foundation grants:
    • Specialty societies in neurology, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, cardiology, anesthesia, critical care, oncology, etc.
    • Disease-specific foundations and philanthropic bodies
  • Institutional & hospital-level funding: seed grants, pilot funds, start-up packages

India & LMIC-Relevant (examples):

  • ICMR calls (extramural and intramural projects, fellowships)
  • SERB, DST, DBT, CSIR, and other national research councils
  • State government and institutional grants for public-health and clinical research

European / Global (examples):

  • Horizon-style frameworks and European-level calls
  • National research councils (e.g., MRC-like, health-research councils)
  • Professional society grants across Europe and global networks

We also support grants that leverage large datasets (e.g., hospital EMR, insurance claims, registry data, HCUP-style data) and multi-center clinical trials.

What We Help You With

Our support is modular and can be tailored to where you are in the process—idea stage, rough draft, or near-final proposal.

1. Concept Development & Grant Strategy

  • Refining your research question, hypotheses, and aims to align with funder priorities
  • Mapping your idea to the most suitable funding opportunity (mechanism, budget, and timeline)
  • Identifying key outcomes, endpoints, and feasibility signals reviewers look for
  • Building translational relevance, health-systems impact, or industry relevance into the narrative

2. Study Design & Biostatistics

  • Choosing the right design: observational vs. interventional, RCT vs. pragmatic trial, registry-based studies, pilot/feasibility designs, cluster or crossover designs, etc.
  • Drafting a rigorous Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) aligned with your aims and hypotheses
  • Sample size and power calculations (including effect sizes, ICCs, loss to follow-up assumptions)
  • Clarifying inclusion/exclusion criteria, endpoints, and analytic populations (e.g., ITT, per-protocol)
  • Guidance on handling missing data, confounding, and bias (e.g., propensity scores, mixed models)

3. Grant Writing: Section-by-Section Support

We help structure and polish each core component, for example:

  • Specific Aims / Project Summary / Abstract
    • Clear, focused, funder-friendly aims page
    • High-level overview for busy reviewers
  • Significance & Innovation
    • Articulating the clinical, scientific, and societal importance
    • Highlighting innovation in methodology, technology, or implementation
  • Approach / Research Strategy
    • Logical flow from background → hypotheses → methods → analysis → expected outcomes
    • Integration of pilot data, prior publications, and feasibility evidence
    • Clear risk–mitigation plans and alternative strategies
  • Environment, Team & Collaboration
    • Presenting your team strengths (clinicians, statisticians, data scientists, engineers)
    • Describing institutional resources, core facilities, labs, and infrastructure
    • Positioning industry, pharma, or multi-center collaborations appropriately
  • Biosketches / CVs (NIH/NSF style)
    • Structuring biosketches to highlight relevance and leadership
    • Aligning personal statements with the project’s vision
  • Budget & Justification (advisory level)
    • Logic for personnel, equipment, software, data acquisition, and analytic costs
    • Ensuring the budget matches scope, complexity, and funder norms
  • Timelines, Milestones & Deliverables
    • Creating realistic Gantt charts and milestone tables
    • Defining clear measurable outputs: manuscripts, algorithms, pilot data, trial activation, etc.

4. Regulatory, Ethics & Data Governance Language

  • Support for human subjects, clinical trial, or animal research narrative sections
  • Assistance with describing informed consent, safety monitoring, and DSMB structures (where applicable)
  • Guidance on data security, privacy, and governance, including de-identification and multi-site data sharing
  • Help drafting Data Management & Sharing Plans, Rigor and Reproducibility sections, and DEI-related components (where funders require them)

5. Scientific Editing & Pre-Submission Review

  • Line-by-line clarity and coherence editing (no loss of technical depth)
  • Ensuring consistency across aims, methods, budget, and feasibility
  • Checking for common reviewer pain points: over-promising, underpowered studies, unclear endpoints, vague analysis plans
  • Preparing resubmission strategies (if you have prior reviewer comments)

Disciplines & Project Types We Work With

  • Neurosciences, neurosurgery, orthopaedics, spine, anesthesia, critical care
  • Cardiology, internal medicine, endocrinology, oncology, hematology
  • Trauma, emergency medicine, stroke and cerebrovascular disease
  • Nursing and allied health, rehabilitation medicine, physiotherapy
  • Health economics, outcomes research, geospatial analysis, forecasting
  • Biomedical engineering, medical devices, digital health, AI/ML in healthcare
  • Public health, epidemiology, implementation science, quality improvement

If your work touches patients, health systems, biomedical technology, or population-level outcomes, this Grant Support category is built for you.

How We Work With You

Even though this service is Coming Soon, the core workflow will be:

Discovery Consultation

  • Understand your idea, career stage, and target funding call
  • Review any draft materials, prior reviews, or pilot data

Grant Blueprint

  • We help you outline a structured, section-wise roadmap for the entire proposal
  • Identify what you will write vs what we will support (statistics, editing, structure, etc.)

Iterative Drafting & Review

  • Collaborative drafting with tracked changes and comments
  • Dedicated rounds focusing on methods/statistics, then language and clarity, then final polish

Submission-Readiness Check

  • Final consistency review (aims, methods, budget logic, timelines)
  • Checklist against funder instructions and formatting rules

Ethics, Integrity & Authorship

Thesis Helpline™ operates on a strict ethical framework:

  • You remain the Principal Investigator / Applicant and intellectual owner of the work.
  • We do not fabricate data, manipulate results, or guarantee funding decisions.
  • We provide methodological, statistical, structural, and editorial support, enabling you to submit a stronger, clearer, and more rigorous proposal.
  • All content is developed to comply with institutional, regulatory, and funding-agency expectations.

Our goal is to help you tell your science better—never to misrepresent it.

Coming Soon – Join the Waitlist

Our Grant Support Services are currently in the final design phase and will be launched as a dedicated product line under Thesis Helpline™.

If you would like to:

  • Be notified when the NIH/NSF & international grant support modules go live
  • Get early access to ICMR / SERB / Indian funding support slots
  • Reserve limited methodology + biostatistics + editing packages for upcoming cycles

…you can join our waitlist by signing up to our newsletter or send an expression of interest through our Contact / WhatsApp channel.

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