Training Grant Summit

THE GOAL
To engage Pitt's academic community and formulate the groundwork for a strategic approach to supporting the University's institutional training grant programs.

OBJECTIVES

• Highlight the impact of current NIH institutional training grant programs upon the University's research enterprise.
• Share training trends, changes in the current NIH funding landscape, and new opportunities at the NSF.
• Identify ways to leverage existing institutional resources and networks of support.
• Engage with other stakeholders to identify gaps in institutional support for training grant programs and propose solutions.

OUTCOMES

• Generate renewed interest and excitement about institutional training grant programs within our academic community.
• Enhance institutional infrastructure supporting our University's institutional training grant programs and community.
• Develop strategies to increase and grow institutional training grant programs and diversity sources of external support.

2022 Summit

June 6, 2022

Summary Report – University of Pittsburgh Institutional Training Grant Summit 2022

AGENDA

8:30am	Opening Remarks	Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences John and Gertrude Petersen Dean, School of Medicine Rob A. Rutenbar, PhD Senior Vice Chancellor for Research
8:45am	NIH Landscape & Trends	Mark W. Geraci, MD Associate Vice Chancellor for Interdisciplinary Research, Health Sciences
9:05am	NSF Landscape & Trends	Robert K. Cunningham, PhD Vice Chancellor for Research Infrastructure Shelome Gooden, PhD Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Related Fields
9:25am		10 minute break
9:35am	Facilitated Working Groups	Cross Institutional NIH Collaborations Incentives and Support for Departments and Faculty within the Health Sciences Incentives and Support for Departments and Faculty outside the Health Sciences Recruiting Top Talent and Increasing Diversity Training and Supporting Physician-Scientists NIH Grant Application Administrative Support
10:30am	Working Group Reports
10:55am	Close and Next Steps

FACILITATED WORKING GROUPS

 

FACILITATORS	WORKING GROUP QUESTIONS
Jeffrey L. Brodsky, PhD David A. Vorp, PhD	1. Cross-Institutional NIH Collaborations How can Pitt help faculty identify opportunities to collaborate on institutional training grant programs? How can Pitt foster more cross-institutional collaboration on institutional training grant programs?
Mark W. Geraci, MD Darlene F. Zellers, PhD	2. Incentives and Support for Departments and Faculty within the Health Sciences What incentives would increase departmental and faculty interest in institutional training grant programs? What supports do departments and faculty need to propose and successfully administer institutional training grants?
Robert K. Cunningham, PhD Amanda J. Godley, PhD Shelome Gooden, PhD	3. Incentives and Support for Departments and Faculty outside the Health Sciences What incentives would increase departmental and faculty interest in institutional training grant programs? What supports do departments and faculty need to propose and successfully administer institutional training grants?
Paula K. Davis, MA Cheryl Ruffin	4. Recruiting Top Talent and Increasing Diversity What roadblocks impede Pitt’s capacity to recruit top talent for its institutional training grant programs? How can Pitt foster a community conducive to attracting diverse talent to its institutional training grant programs?
Richard Steinman, MD, PhD Caterina Rosano, MD, MPH	5. Training and Supporting Physician-Scientists What challenges do training programs face in preparing trainees for durable and successful careers as physician scientists? How can Pitt enhance or improve the training environment for physician scientists within its institutional training grant programs?
Tammy L. Dennis, COM Aniko Nalevanko	6. NIH Grant Application Administrative Support What are current challenges for institutional training grant administrators? What support can Pitt provide centrally to help institutional training grant administrators?

HOSTED BY
Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for the Health Sciences
Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor for Research
Office of the Provost
Office of Academic Career Development, Health Sciences