Welcome to Blazon.
Blazon Scientific is owned by me, Thomas Solomon, PhD. I provide professional consulting services to assist health science researchers with scientific writing, research grant writing/developmental editing, data analysis, and literature review.
My support will improve your efficiency, boost your productivity, and relieve your workload.
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My mission is to empower scientists at any level to produce high-quality output by collecting and analysing data with integrity, writing with clarity, and reporting with accuracy.
Why do you need an academic consultant?
Are you applying for an ERC Starting/Consolidator/Advanced Grant, a national research council grant (UKRI, NIH, CIHR, DNRF, DFF, etc), or funding from a private foundation (Lundbeckfonden, Novo Nordisk Fonden, etc)?
Does your grant support team only offer basic advice on submission guidelines?
Does your grant support team only provide basic proofreading or copyediting services without a deep dive into the strengths and weaknesses of your grant proposal?
Do you struggle to craft persuasive and compelling grant proposals?
If yes, partnering with an academic consultant like me will level up your grant writing game and help you transform your ideas into winning proposals. My most popular service is a pre-submission research grant peer review, which provides developmental editing on your proposal.
Why?
Because I make specific time for each task and will be committed to your project, bringing fresh eyes and intelligent insight.
I provide critical but friendly and constructive feedback from the perspective of a peer reviewer and a content editor.
I think carefully and go deep into the details of your proposal.
I provide a critique of your logic, structure, and experimental plan.
I make sure your narrative flows with clarity and highlights the importance of your idea and the excellence of your collaborative team.
I will also crosscheck your proposal against the grant application guidelines.
Yes, many companies offer academic proofreading and editing services, but they typically provide a glorified spellcheck and grammar check.
My pre-submission grant editing/developmental editing service is NOT a proofreading service; anyone with access to spellchecking software can provide that. Heck, even AI chatbots outperform most humans when correcting typos.
My developmental editing service is a scientific content editing service; I provide a thorough pre-submission peer review using skills learned from over 15 years of research.
I specialise in providing thorough peer reviews of research grant proposals BEFORE scientists submit them. You’ll get a comprehensive pre-submission grant peer review from a former group leader and Associate Professor who left traditional academia in 2018 to consult for folks like you. I'm a widely published scientist with a successful grant funding record and more than 15 years of experience in manuscript peer review, research grant review, ethical review, and protocol review, having served on journal editorial boards and clinical trial protocol review committees.
My input will polish your proposal before your reviewers get to work. 
Who has used my services?
Recent projects I have worked on
European Research Commission Starting grants (ERC StG).
European Research Commission Consolidator grants (ERC CoG).
Danmarks Grundsforskningsfond (DNRF) Center of Excellence grants.
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Inge Lehmann programme grants.
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Independent research fund project grants.
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Sapere Aude project grants.
Novo Nordisk Fonden CBMR International Postdoctoral Program grants.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship grants.
NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Awards (R21).
US Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project grants.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team Grants.
Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund grants.
Innovation Fund Denmark - Industrial PhD project grants.
World Cancer Research Fund Seed grants.
European Research Commission Starting grants (ERC StG).
European Research Commission Consolidator grants (ERC CoG).
Danmarks Grundsforskningsfond (DNRF) Center of Excellence grants.
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Inge Lehmann programme grants.
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Independent research fund project grants.
Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond (DFF) Sapere Aude project grants.
Novo Nordisk Fonden CBMR International Postdoctoral Program grants.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship grants.
NIH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Awards (R21).
US Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Project grants.
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Team Grants.
Canada Foundation for Innovation John R. Evans Leaders Fund grants.
Innovation Fund Denmark - Industrial PhD project grants.
World Cancer Research Fund Seed grants.