即使著名的科学家并不能保证基金申请一定能成功。就在分子生物学家卡罗尔·格雷德获得2009年诺贝尔奖的同一天，她得知自己最近提交的基金申请被否决。她在纽约冷泉港实验室（Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory）2017年的毕业演讲中说：“即使在你获得诺贝尔奖的那天，怀疑论者也可能会质疑你是否真的知道自己在做什么。”（Being a renowned scientist doesn’t ensure success. On the same day that molecular biologist Carol Greider won a Nobel prize in 2009, she learnt that her recently submitted grant proposal had been rejected. “Even on the day when you win the Nobel prize,” she said in a 2017 graduation speech at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York, “sceptics may question whether you really know what you’re doing.”）

一个名为“开放基金申请”的网站包括200多个基金申请，有成功的，也有失败的，都可以免费阅读。（A website called Open Grants, for example, includes more than 200 grants, both successful and unsuccessful, that are free to peruse.）

Secrets to writing a winning grant

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