This is a highly-acclaimed Write Winning NIH Grant Proposals workshop, broken up into two, half-day sessions this year, followed by an optional Write Winning NIH Career Development Award Proposals seminar!
Presented by Lauren Broyles, PhD
Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops
Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh in partnership with Duquesne University
Deadline to register was May 24, 2022
Write Winning NIH Grant Proposals workshop
Thursday June 9th and Friday June 10th, 2022 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. via Zoom
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Emphasis is placed on doing the *extra* things that can make a proposal successful! The Write Winning NIH Grant Proposals workshop comprehensively addresses the conceptual and the pragmatic aspects of the R-series proposal-writing process and provides strategies for both.
This two, 1/2 day workshop addresses idea development/refinement; identification of the most appropriate funding opportunity; writing for reviewers and reducing the inherent cognitive burden involved in their task; and specific underlying structure and sample sentence stems for key subsections and critical elements in the NIH research series proposal. In each instance, participants are taught to write with a linear progression of logic, which leads reviewers through their applications.
The workshop also stresses that applicants are writing for two different audiences – the assigned reviewers, who have read the application in its entirety, and non-assigned reviewers who may have read little, or nothing, of the proposal before the meeting of the review panel. All participants receive an extensive handout, as well as a copy of The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook - NIH Version. The workbook is designed to facilitate application of what is learned in the seminar to the writing of each attendee’s individual grant proposal and to provide a step-by-step manner in which to write the full proposal.
If you are currently working on an Aims page, you are encouraged to have it on hand so that you can identify common pitfalls and issues that the speaker is discussing, and/or think right in the moment how you might like to modify or rearrange the information.
This workshop is free to University of Pittsburgh faculty but all participants are required to purchase a copy of the Grant Application Writer's Workbook - NIH Version. The total cost of the book is $89.99, which includes individual shipping fees to your home address.
How to Register:
Registration has closed. Contact oacd@pitt.edu with questions.
Supplemental Write Winning NIH Career Development (K) Award Proposals Seminar
Monday June 13, 2022 | 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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The Write Winning NIH Career Development Award Proposals seminar is a ½-day seminar for Career Development Award (CDA) applicants and their mentors. It emphasizes the required partnership between applicant, mentor, and institution that makes these proposals successful, resulting in funding and protected time for research and training. The National Institutes of Health’s mentored K-series awards are used as representative applications. The principles and strategies are transposable to other NIH training awards such as the Ruth L. Kirschstein F31 and National Research Service Award and CDAs from other agencies (e.g., VA) or foundations (e.g., American Heart Association, Palliative Care Foundation), though specifics vary. Seminar content includes how review criteria inform the writing of a CDA application; the kinds of research and training that should be proposed; tips and strategies for obtaining reference letters; selecting and getting the most from a mentoring team, and more.
Please note that this is not a stand-alone, ½ day seminar. Attendance at this seminar assumes information learned at the Write Winning NIH Grant Proposals workshop that will be held on June 9th and 10th, 2022. It is important to attend that workshop before attending this one. All participants of this supplemental seminar will receive an extensive handout in addition to the Grant Application Writer's Workbook – NIH Version that will be used during the first workshop. There is no additional fee to attend this seminar.
Registration:
Registration has closed. Contact oacd@pitt.edu if you have any questions.
Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops was founded by academic researchers, to provide other academic investigators with formal training in how to write competitive grant proposals.
Lauren Broyles, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops
Dr. Lauren Broyles received her Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh, a BS in Nursing from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA in Psychology from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Addiction Health Services Research with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at the VA’s Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion.
Following her postdoc, she joined that center as a full-time Research Health Scientist, where her research centered on determining the efficacy and implementation of alcohol risk reduction interventions in general medical settings. At that time, Dr. Broyles also became a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh with appointments in General Internal Medicine, Clinical and Translational Science, and Nursing. For 5 years, Dr. Broyles taught an intensive two-semester proposal-writing course at the University of Pittsburgh for physicians and PhDs from across the health sciences preparing their first R- or K-series applications. Additionally, at the VA she served as a site Director and National Coordinating Center Director for the Advanced Interprofessional Fellowship in Addiction Treatment. In January 2016, she joined Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops full time as an Associate Member.
Dr. Broyles has been awarded competitive extramural funding from the NIH, the Veterans Health Administration, and various non-federal foundation sources. She has served as a member of federal grant review panels, and as an Associate Editor for the journal, Substance Abuse. In addition, Dr. Broyles has regularly been recognized for excellence in research, teaching, and mentoring.