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Recent Highlights
"Who and What NIH Funds?"
Use NIH REPORT and RePORTER to your advantage for your next proposal. Target your next application and find your next collaborator for your research.
Effective Scientific Presentations
Communicating your science and research is as important as performing and procuring funding for research. Please use the following presentation by Dr. McConnell for some critical skills to utilize and common pitfalls to avoid.
COVID-19 and the Early-Career Physician-Scientist: Fostering Resilience beyond the Pandemic
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created significant stressors for the academic and scientific community, with unique challenges for early-career physician- scientists. Please use the links to read the full open-source article: Kliment CR, Barbash IJ, Brenner JS, Chandra D, Courtright K, Gauthier MC, et al. COVID-19 and the Early-Career Physician-Scientist. Fostering Resilience beyond the Pandemic. ATS Sch 2020, 2(1): 19-28.
Building and Nurturing Physician-Scientists in Neonatology
This article tackles kindling interest in a career as a physician-scientist and sustaining it and underscores that support at every stage is crucial: Permar SR, Ward RA, Barrett KJ, Freel SA, Gbadegesin RA, Kontos CD, et al. Addressing the physician-scientist pipeline: strategies to integrate research into clinical training programs. J Clin Invest 2020, 130(3): 1058-1061
Learning Health Systems Research Competencies and Training
Are you doing Health Services/ QI/Implementation Science Research? Look into the following competencies and training resources from the AHRQ for your career development.
Did you extend your ESI status?
Being identified as an Early Stage Investigator (ESI) is important. Learn more form this ESI Cheat Sheet by Krithika Lingappan.
Step-by-Step Resource to Build an Effective Grant Application
The National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease has a very useful guide that walks one through all the steps of putting together a grant proposal, from planning to the Aims page, to the budget and data sharing.
Choosing a Study Section
If you are wondering which NIH study section your grant has high chances of being reviewed in, use this tool from the NIH Center for Scientific Review called the Assisted Referral Tool (ART) as you are drafting your application.