I guess you could say that. It’s probably my lab’s money, but it will be allocated to my project. I honestly have no idea how the financial side of this works - just the science 
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Here’s the timeline of how it happened:
September / august: I joined the lab, picked up the project, realized that there was a different direction we could approach the problem from and found very successful preliminary results.
October / November: I refined my analysis. I wrote the letter of intent. I also created the figures. I ran most of my stuff through my PI first, and received a lot of feedback and edits. I won a much smaller university of Michigan grant award under my name and just heard back from the big grant on Friday.