Securing research funds is critical to promoting and accelerating science. This is because funding not only affects the addressal of scientific questions, but also directs the scope, content, and outputs of public research. Worthy ideas in medicine often remain unexecuted owing to a lack of funds. Therefore, approaching funding agencies for grants has become an important policy tool to deliver scientific progress through publications, make the work accessible to the public, and eventually bring about economic and social returns.

However, several factors affect the approval of these grants, such as the relevance of the research topic, the credibility of the proposed methodology, and the convincing ability of the proposal, among others. On the occasion of our 9 th anniversary, we bring to you a Docplexus Exclusives session by Dr. Vineet Vinay on “ Approaching for Research Grants and…