Tailor Your Biosketches Early, Coordinate with Key Personnel

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When preparing to submit an application you’ve probably thought a lot about how you are going to present your proposed project. You may have also thought about what to put in the personal statement that is now part of your biosketch. But what about other investigators whose biosketches will be included? In the past, biosketches were one size fits all. Now, each biosketch includes a personal statement that describes why your experience and qualifications make you particularly well-suited for your role in the project. Let the other members of your team know well in advance of the application due date that it is time to update their biosketch.

Remember, the publications included in your biosketch that fall under our Public Access Policy need to include the proper identifiers. Now that your citation information will be managed with My NCBI’s My Bibliography tool, use it as a reference when preparing your biosketch, so you have all the appropriate IDs in one place.