Course Outline

Monthly sessions from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm from February 2024 to July 2024 in MSB G100. 

• Session 1: Specific Aims/Abstract, Innovation, & Significance

  Wednesday, February 14, 2024

  From 11:30 to 1:00 pm

  Speaker: Kevin Morano, PhD, Professor, SVP

  Reading: The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, Chapters 1-4, 6

  Assignment: Identify a Mentor, Generate Specific Aims, Innovation and Significance

• Session2: Research Design & Methods (Population-Based Studies)
  

  Wednesday, March 13, 2024

  From 12:00 to 1:30 pm

  Speaker: Laura Mitchell, PhD, Professor and Former Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health

  Reading: The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, Chapters 7-10

  Assignment: Specific Aims Critique, Revise Specific Aims page, Revise Innovation and Significance, Generate Research Design and Methods

• Session 3: Research Design & Methods (Clinical Studies) 

  Wednesday, April 10, 2024

  From 12:00 to 1:30 pm

  Speaker: Martin Blakely, MD, MS, MMHC, FACS, FAAP, Department of Pediatric Surgery Center for Clinical Research and Evidence Based Medicine, McGovern Medical School

  Reading: The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, Chapters 11-15

  Assignment: Specific Aims Critique, Revise Specific Aims page, Revise Innovation and Significance, Generate Research Design and Methods

• Session 4: Research Design & Methods (Laboratory-Based Studies)

  Wednesday, May 08, 2024

  From 12:00 to 1:30 pm

  Speaker: Zheng (Jake) Chen, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  Reading: The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, Chapters 11-15

  Assignment: Revise Research Design and Methods

• Session 5: Review & Response

  Wednesday, June 12, 2024

  From 12:00 to 1:30 pm

  Speaker: Michael Lorenz, PhD, Professor, Medical School Dept. of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

  Reading: The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook, Chapters 16-21

  Assignment: Revise and Compile Grant

• Session 6: Executing the Research and Planning the Next Grant

  Wednesday, July 10, 2024

  From 12:00 to 1:30 pm

  Speaker: Cindy Farach-Carson, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Dentistry

  Assignment: Revise and Compile Grant 

Completion Reception: Mentor and Participant Appreciation, Key Note Remarks - September 2024 (TBD)