HCSRN Pre-Conference Grant Writing Workshop
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| Date: Monday, April 7, 2025 |
| Time: 1 – 5 pm CDT |
| Deadline for Registration: Monday, March 31, 2025 |
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| This year’s pre-conference grant writing workshop will share knowledge from investigators in HCSRN to assist early investigators with writing NIH R series applications. The goals of this workshop are two-fold: 1) to provide practical knowledge for those writing NIH awards with a special emphasis on R mechanisms, and 2) to create a community of new investigators working towards NIH funding from which they can draw support. |
| This workshop is designed for early-career and new investigators who would like more information about, as well as specific suggestions for obtaining funding from the National Institutes of Health. The intended audience includes early career investigators, as well as project managers, and biostatisticians/analysts who either write their own grants or make substantial contributions to investigators’ grants. Mid-career and senior investigators are welcome to attend; however, the workshop is not designed for people who already have received NIH funding or who have experience writing NIH grants. Some of the topics to be addressed include: choosing a research question, funding mechanism, and Institute; writing outstanding specific aims; understanding what sections of grants are especially important for reviewers; creating a conceptual model; telling a “story”; and formatting a grant for maximal visual impact. The workshop will include didactic lectures, time for questions and answers, and discussions among participants. |
TENTATIVE AGENDA FOR THE DAY
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Topic |
Time |
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Welcome and Overview |
1:00 – 1:15 pm |
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High Level Overview (choosing a funder, framing a research question, funding institute mission statements, REPORTer, paylines, NOSIs, grant mechanisms, project officer interactions) |
1:15 – 1:45 pm |
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Questions/Discussion |
1:45 – 1:55 pm |
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How do you “sell” your grant? |
1:55 – 2:55 pm |
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Overview of Most Important Sections/Components |
10 minutes |
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Make it a story, general writing flow |
10 minutes |
| Conceptual Model |
10 minutes |
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Specific Aims |
30 minutes |
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Questions/Discussion |
2:55 – 3:10 pm |
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BREAK |
3:10 – 3:25 pm |
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How do you "sell" your grant? (cont) |
3:25 – 4:15 pm |
| Significance Section |
10 minutes |
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Innovation Section |
10 minutes |
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Approach/Repeat Proposal Strengths |
30 minutes |
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Making an attractive package that is easy to review - Formatting |
4:15 – 4:25 pm |
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After submission overview – Study sections, ART, reviewers |
4:25 – 4:45 pm |
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Questions/Discussion/Next Steps |
4:45 - 5:00 pm |