Thursdays 12:00 - 1:30pm at the Telemedicine Building, room 313
Instructor: Lucila Ohno-Machado
Administration: Send me email to dbmi-admin to get added to the course list and get an invite to the MED276 private folder.
Course Objectives:
- Explain the grant proposal process and how grants are reviewed
- Provide practical experience in grant proposal writing and response to critiques
- Emphasize the importance of team work and persistence in grant writing
This is a hands-on course. Students will review funded and non-funded grant proposals for different types of NIH awards, with an emphasis on K (mentored) and R (non-mentored) research awards. Students will have an opportunity to have their own proposals reviewed by instructors and classmates. The instructor will prepare a research proposal with help from the students.
| 4/4/13 | Specific Aims, Scoring of Proposals
- review of 7 proposals (Specific Aims only)
- explain scoring system
- homework: write anonymized Specific Aims for your project and deposit in MED276 sub-folder 4/11
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| 4/11/13 | Specific Aims Revisited, Research Strategy Components
- review of some Specific Aims pages from the ones deposited in MED276
- guide to critiques with example, overview of components of the research plan
- homework: write background/motivation portion of the Research Strategy
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| 4/18/13 | Research Plan: Motivation, Significance |
| 4/25/13 | Approach and Innovation |
| 5/2/13 | Evaluation, Timeline, Budget |
| 5/9/13 | Preliminary Data, Investigator, Human Subjects |
| 5/16/13 | Career Plan for K proposals, Subcontracts for R proposals |
| 5/23/13 | Abstract, Facilities/Environment, Letters of Support |
| 5/30/13 | Response to Reviews |
| 6/6/13 | Next Steps: Managing Resources |
Reference book: The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, by Stephen W. Russell and David C. Morrison, 2010. www.GrantCentral.com. I will leave one copy at the hut and one at SDSC, there are NIH and NSF versions. We will focus on NIH.