Liane Reif-Lehrer, PhD, received a B.A. degree from Barnard College, Columbia University in 1956 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1960. An Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Senior Scientist at the Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation for many years, she was funded throughout her academic career primarily by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and has served as a member of an NIH Study Section. Now president of Tech-Write Consultants/Erimon Associates, she works as a consultant and a writer and has presented workshops about how to write a good grant application and related subjects throughout the U.S., including Puerto Rico. At the invitation of the China Medical Board, Dr. Reif-Lehrer gave a workshop in 1997 at Beijing Medical University and also did some informal consulting at Xi'an Medical University (now part of Xi'an Jiaotong University). She was also invited by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to give workshops, financed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), in the Former Soviet Union: 1994: Tallin, Estonia and Kiev, Ukraine; 1997: Almaty, Kazakhstan and Vladivostok, Russia. In addition to the current book, Dr. Reif-Lehrer is the author of Writing a Successful Grant Application (2d edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1989), Grant Application Writer's Handbook (Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1995), over 40 publications in the scientific literature, and numerous articles in publications such as The Scientist, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, etc.
