Services

 • Editing: Written documents at any stage, e.g. Grant applications / Specific Aims Pages; Manuscripts

• Writing: Critiquing your science; Getting started with that first outline; Editing your manuscript for submission; Making that final 25% cut in total characters for publication. 

• Brainstorming: Formulating irresistible ideas; Finding gaps in a field; Targeting a funding mission.

• Mentoring: Teaching your trainees to write (getting started, finishing, writers block, the writing principles of Structure, Content, Language, and Grammar), as well as to think, design experiments, interpret data, assess career goals. 

• Consulting: After a free short discussion about your research space, I'll be able to tell you whether I can help. If so, I can guarantee you I will see something in your data that you don't and I'll have ideas you haven't thought of. 

 • BA Major: Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UC San Diego

• BA Minor: Philosophy, UC San Diego

• PhD: Genetics, Stanford

• Over 30 years as a Professor in Medical School, University and Non-Profit Institution environments.

• Have mentored: 21 post-doctoral scientists; 21 Graduate students; 75 Undergraduate students

• University graduate mentorship award 

• Nearly 200 publications, over 27,000 citations (as of 2024)

• h-factor = 82 (as of 2024)

• 29 federal grant awards

• Median NIH percentile / Impact score for the last 10 years = 2 / 18

 1) Academia: Check with your Institute to see whether they have a budget for writing services, if not my services can be paid for from your existing research funding.   I will be paid by a simple hourly payment mechanism; I will send a quotation, your Institute will approve that and register DNA DAVE LLC as a vendor and I will provide them with a W9, after that we invoice as with any other service. 

2) Industry: most industries already have a mechanism for these services, I am happy to work with you to be paid as a percentage of a successful grant, or other mechanisms that work well for you.