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NIH is committed to nurturing the next generation of researchers to keep the biomedical innovation pipeline flowing. There are many unique opportunities and special considerations available to junior investigators, but they are not always obvious. If you are a "newbie" to NIH funding, this presentation is for you! An ex-NIH Program Director walks you through your options and realistically points you in the right direction. This presentation covers the funding opportunities and strategies used by NIH to kick-start careers. Both targeted initiatives and avoiding traps in writing grant applications were discussed.

Karen Carney, PhD, a past postdoctoral associate in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, provided opening remarks at the 2022 SCIENCE Career Symposium that covered 10 insider tips to achieving your career goals. 

Presenter Bio: Karen Carney, PhD, is a Product Manager at Elsevier supporting ClinicalPath, an oncology-focused clinical decision support and analytics software tool. Karen previously worked at PittSciVelo as a Senior Commercial Translation Associate where she helped researchers commercialize their digital health innovations. Prior to transitioning to industry, Karen was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Neurology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She was also actively involved in the leadership of the University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Association, the not-for-profit consulting firm Fourth River Solutions, and the Pitt Professional Development Consortium.

Discover the world of funding opportunities and easily identify the ones that are right for you at any career stage! Are you looking for funding opportunities to kickstart your research career or to move it to the next level and not sure where to start? Pivot is a searchable funding opportunity and expertise database, subscribed to by the University of Pittsburgh and offered to all faculty, postdoctoral trainees, and graduate students. The database is a comprehensive source for funding information from all disciplines and users can conduct searches for funding opportunities, save searches and receive funding alerts tailored to your scholarly profile. Ryan Champagne and Bradley Pollock from Pitt’s Office of Sponsored Programs discuss how to use this valuable resource. Additional resources are also shared for identifying prestigious academic awards, fellowships available to non-US citizens, funding programs for early career faculty, and internally-coordinated competitions for limited submission and University-funded programs.

Interviewing, like all forms of communication, is about telling stories that resonate with your audience. Your story can be the most important one they hear!

Interviewing is about demonstrating how your background, experience, skills and enthusiasm are aligned with the employer’s needs, and that you have a unique set of talents that can add value and move their agenda forward. To ensure that decision makers understand what exactly you can do for and with the employer, you want to build verbal bridges between you and them. This takes place in the form of stories.

In this webinar, presented by Alaina Levine, we discussed leveraging virtual platforms to execute an interviewing plan that will help you land that dream job. We reviewed how to craft and deliver stories before, during, and after the interview, how to adjust different elements of a virtual experience (such as light and sound), and how to look professional on camera. We also went over how to deliver an oral presentation—such as a job talk or a colloquium—using virtual methods to indicate your knowledge, expertise, enthusiasm, and collaborative nature.