The goal of this session is to provide early career
investigators (including research and clinical junior faculty, postdoctoral
scholars, and students) interested in nutrition research with fundamental
skills related to developing a relevant research question and methodology
leading to successful grant proposal submissions for both institutional and
extra-mural funding.
This session aims to encourage research endeavors among
ASPEN members by providing guidance to improve grant writing skills and
increase familiarity with funding opportunities. The speakers and moderators
will provide practical advice for navigating NIH peer review and address
effective grant writing strategies. Both early career and established
investigators that have previously received grant funding (and rejections)
within ASPEN and officials from the NIH will participate.
Investigators who would like to apply for funding should
attend this session to improve their grant writing skills. Attendees will also
have a unique opportunity to interact with established investigators and
network with other early career investigators, ultimately promoting the
development of potential future collaborations.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe the research proposal evaluation process used
by study sections at the NIH Center for Scientific Review
- Identify the major pitfalls and challenges faced by
early career investigators when writing grant applications
- Explain the difference between research hypotheses and
specific aims
- Develop independent, yet related, specific aims for a
grant application
- Describe the most common mistakes that junior
investigators make when writing specific aims and review examples of
grants that have successfully overcome these issues
FACULTY AND TOPICS
Navigating Peer-review at the National Institutes of
Health: Do's and Don't's for Investigators
Gregory Shelness, PhD, Scientific Review Officer,
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review, Baltimore, MD
Research Career Development Grants: Overcoming
Pitfalls and Challenges from Hypothesis to Specific Aims
Josiane L. Broussard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Colorado
State University, Fort Collins, CO
What is a Reviewer Looking For in the Specific Aim of
a Career Development Grant?
Ursula White, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pennington
Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Panelist
Mary Evans, PhD, Program Director, Division of Digestive
Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney
Diseases (NIDDK), Baltimore, MD
MODERATOR
Todd Rice, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division
of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University
Medical Center, Nashville, TN
CE Credit: 1.5
hours
Level: Intermediate
UAN: JA0002345-0000-21-046-L04-P
Presented by the ASPEN
Research Committee