You are a researcher working on Schizophrenia disease (in 2025). You are submitting your first grant application and now need to draft a convincing opening paragraph that indicates the significance and need for your research to be funded. What information or supporting data would you include? Outline your project overview, the gaps or challenges you are addressing and the rationale for embarking on this program of research (ballpark, 250 words).

Feel free to use the structure below to guide your paragraph:

• Have you conveyed the impact on the community? Is epidemiology data included to set the scene?
• Have you articulated how the disease is currently treated?
• Have you described what the current gaps are?

• Have you discussed what the project will aim to do?

[10 marks, 10 minutes]