"Getting Started" Grants Workshop

NOTE:  The Office of Clinical Research sponsors two grant-writing seminars each year for faculty and staff in the AHC:  “Getting Started” in the fall and “Write Winning Grants” in the spring (March 25, 2008). These events are separate from the “Write Winning Grants” seminar sponsored by the office of Robert Jones, Sr. VP for System Administration.

PRESENTER/TOPIC:  The seminar leader is David Morrison (Ph.D., Yale, Molecular Biology and Biophysics; Postdoctoral research fellow, National Institutes of Health and Scripps Research Institute). Dr. Morrison, a successful grant writer and co-founder of Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops, L.L.C., teaches new investigators how to write a grant application and allows time for questions and discussion. Topics include organizational structures of the major federal funding agencies, how priority scores are calculated, what facilities and administrative costs are, how to analyze a critique in anticipation of resubmission, and more. Dr. Morrison emphasizes how one starts to build an academic career.

TARGET AUDIENCE:  AHC non-tenure-track faculty members currently involved in clinical and/or translational research who aspire to tenure track, post-doctoral research fellows, and senior graduate students who are beginning their careers in clinical and translational research and writing grant applications.

Past seminars were widely valued, as shown by comments from participants:

This was an excellent workshop. I’ve been to many and never left with the feeling I can manage an application. Today, I do!”
 “This seminar was very informative and the speaker presented a lot of potentially tedious information in an interesting and helpful format.  He helped us understand what reviewers look for, and how "little things" can have a significant impact on the success of grant applications.  This was time very well spent.  Thanks!”
“Excellent presentation of information critical to good grantsmanship.  Good presentation-humor helped keep interest even after lunch! Great examples!”
 “Believe it or not, I'm actually excited to get back to my office and work on my grant proposals!”
“Awesome!  Material presented in such a way that audience very engaged!  I attended this workshop five years ago and got my first submission of R03 accepted.  Attending it again has reminded me of the importance of writing for the reviewer and so many other ideas that I did not quite understand either.  Thanks!”