Sean Mullen

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Course Outline

# Date Topics Assignment
1 17-Jan Professional considerations in seeking funding & selecting a mechanism

Lifecycle of a federal grant application to NIH

 Setup eRA Commons account, Find 3 external funding sources relevant to your field (small, med, large)
2 24-Jan Grant resources, discuss student searches

Finding the right home

What to do once you have an idea

 Find current funding lines for 2 relevant institutional centers (ICs) for R01, R21, and F awards on NIH Reporter, Find 1 RFA relevant to your field of study and research line. Print, read, and generate a list of questions you have about the stated requirements.
3 31-Jan Assembling an interdiscplinary team

What does it mean to be an expert?

Dissecting complete contents of a successful grant proposal

Differences between NIH mechanisms

 Complete a public list of all published work (ORCID and NCBI). Write an NIH biosketch (or update your current one for a new project).
4 7-Feb Budget and Justification Develop a $50,000 budget and justification for a grant proposal involving a behavioral intervention using the template provided.
5 14-Feb Specific Aims Submit a 2-3 sentence Project Narrative for class critique.

 
6 21-Feb Recruitment Methods & Sample Projections

Inclusionary/Exclusionary Criteria

Human Subjects

 Due next week:

  1. Project Summary (abstract)
  2. Specific Aims
  3. I/E table
  4. Target enrollment table
  5. PHS structured field data
  6. Schedule a meeting with Mullen

Begin working on:

    • Protection of Human Subjects attachment (due March 28th)

Optional: Logic Model

 

 
7 28-Feb Research Strategy: A closer look (Rationale, Innovation, Method, Preliminary Data, Anticipated Problems & Solutions, Significance & Implications)
  • Revised Specific Aims page will be due at meeting with DrM
  • Continue working on PHS attachment (due March 28th)
  • Begin working on 6-pg Research Strategy (due May 2nd)
8 7-Mar Individual meetings Revised Aims due
9 14-Mar Individual meetings Revised Aims due
10 21-Mar Spring Break – No Class
11 28-Mar Receipt of a fundable score and/or funding, clinical trials registration, translational lag, data sharing and publication Develop a data sharing plan.
12 4-Apr NIH Loan Repayment Program Develop a 2-pg career development plan due on April 11th (submit in my mailbox)
13 11-Apr Class will not formally meet. Dedicated time provided to work on presentations
14 18-Apr Presentations
15 25-Apr Presentations
16 2-May Presentations Submit 6-pg Research Strategy + all accompanying pages (Project Summary, Project Narrative, Clinical Trial Questionnaire, PHS attachment/data, Data Sharing Plan); Note: a Budget & Justification are NOT required for this project but you’re welcome to put one together.