Instructor:
Aidan Wright, PhD (University of Michigan)

Workshop Dates and Times:
Friday, May 3, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm ET

Workshop Format:
One-Day Synchronous Online Workshop -

NOW AVAILABLE FOR ASYNCHRONOUS PARTICIPATION

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s largest funder of biomedical research. However, for many trainees and early career researchers, the structure and working of the NIH is unclear or opaque. The NIH also offers several training grant mechanisms, such as the National Research Service Award (NRSA) pre-doctoral (F31) and post-doctoral (F32) fellowships. This brief workshop is designed to demystify the structure and working of the NIH and provide practical guidance on how to put together a successful individual fellowship award. It is taught by Aidan Wright, PhD, who himself wrote successful F31 and F32 awards, and has served as a sponsor or part of the mentoring team of many such awards since becoming a professor. Following a brief overview of how the NIH is structured and how grant submissions and reviews function generally, strategies for composing a successful fellowship grant will be presented. Topics covered will include identifying a proposal idea, putting together a mentoring team, structuring a successful proposal, and responsibilities of the mentor will be covered. Time for question and answer will be provided at the end.