Grants Development Seminars

The Research Development “Nuts and Bolts” series has been jointly developed by the COM Offices of Faculty Development & Faculty Affairs and Research. Its goal is to arm researchers at any stage of their careers with the knowhow to craft successful grant applications. The series will cover topics like funding agencies, Biosketches, structuring an R01, budgeting, the Specific Aims page, biostats, the NIH review process, clinical trials, research compliance, and others.

Sessions will be held by Zoom every other Thursday at 12 noon. Register here.

Date Topic Presenter
October 19, 2023 Funding agencies and grant mechanisms Christopher Davies, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
November 2, 2023 Introduction to the CCTS Jennifer Croker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine - Immunology and Rheumatology
University of Alabama at Birmingham
November 16, 2023         Writing a Specific Aims Page Mark Gillespie, PhD
SAMSF-Locke Endowed Professor and Chair
USA Department of Pharmacology
November 30, 2023 Structure of an R01  Christopher Davies, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
December 14, 2023 Biosketches Tom Rich, PhD
Professor
USA Department of Pharmacology
January 11, 2024 Navigating the NIH Emily Wilson, PhD
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
January 25, 2024 Talking to your biostatistician

Madhuri Mulekar, PhD 
Professor and Chair
USA Department of Math and Statistics

February 8, 2024 Navigating clinical trials Stefanie White
Director, Clinical Trials Office
February 22, 2024

How to secure NSF funding

Glen Borchert, PhD
Professor, Department of Pharmacology

March 7, 2024

Budgeting R01s

Christopher Davies, PhD
Associate Dean for Research

March 21, 2024

IRB/IACUC/IBC

Dusty Layton, MPA, BS, CIP
Executive Director, Research Compliance and Assurance
April 4, 2024 Vertebrate animals section Michele Schuler, DVM, PhD
Professor, Biological Resources
TBA

R01 small print (facilities, authentication, DMSP, multi-PI) 

Christopher Davies, PhD
Associate Dean for Research
TBA Talking to your Program Officer  Emily Wilson, PhD
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development
TBA Mining EHRs - i2b2 TBA