GRANT WRITING CLUB
Grant Writing Club meetings are held on second thursday of every month.
It is organized by Laura Kelly Vaughan. Feel free to contact her for more information.
Grant Topic Discusess in Previous Meetings
2009
Date: October 8, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
This month Postdoctoral Fellows Charity Morgan, Richard Reynolds, and Yann Klimentidis lead an a discussion based on an overview of the NIH Institutes, and different grant mechanisms.
Date: September 10, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
We discussed the Summary Statement for Dr. Neingjun Yi's R01 proposal “Bayesian methods for genome-wide interacting QTL mapping”
Date: August 13, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
We discussed recent changes to the NIH's grant review policies. We watched a short video from the NIH followed by a discussion on recent changes to general review policy & the scoring system led by Nick Pajewski & Kathryn Kaiser.
- Side-by-Side Comparison of Enhanced and Former Review Criteria
- http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/
- http://cms.csr.nih.gov/AboutCSR/Publications/
Date: July 9, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Our speaker this month was Richard Kennedy. He discussed his submission for a NIH K08 Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award. The focus of his application was on integrating microarray data analysis with other methods for studying brain function; specifically, this grant will look at integrating postmortem microarray data and longitudinal neuropsychological data in Alzheimer's disease.
Date: May 14, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Our speakers this month were Drs. Jeff Gray and Tony Skjellum from the Department of Computer and Information Sciences here at UAB. They are both NSF CAREER grant awardees and have served on several CAREER review panels. They shared their experiences with us would like to encourage potential applicants and build a networking community among those interested in applying for a CAREER award to improve the number of awards at UAB.
For more information on CAREER grants please see:
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5262
Slides from the talk:
http://www.cis.uab.edu/gray/external/CAREER-talk/NSF-CAREER-Discussion.pptx
Date: May 14, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Charlie Prince, Assistant Vice-President for Research, and Lynn Stedman, head of the Office of Grants and Contracts Administration
ARRA (aka stimulus) funding efforts here at UAB. For more information please refer to www.uab.edu/stimulus
NO Grant Club meeting in April
Date: March 12, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
- Guimin Gao lead a short discussion on the new NIH Challenge Grant (NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research – NIH website; RFA-OD-09-003 – NIH Guide)
- Xujing Wang from Department of Physics & Comprehensive Diabetes Center presented her grant application “The spatial-temporal regulations in the complex system that regulate blood glucose” This is a grant responding to JSMF’s “study complex systems” program http://www.jsmf.org/programs/cs/
Date: February 12, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
- Steve Erickson, a short discussion on the NIH's new policy on resubmissions http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-09-003.html
- Dough Childers, discussed his K25 application titled "Optimal Testing in Genome-Wide Association Studies."
Date: January 8, 2009
Topic discussed and Leaders:
- Ryan Dixon, postdoctoral fellow in Epidemiology, presented her AHA fellowship application titled "Characterization of the Genetics of Diabetes and Related Traits Using CNV Whole Genome Approaches"
- Dr. Martin Cadeiras, a new faculty member from the Division of Cardiology, discussed his grant application "Genomic Classification of Cardiac Transplant Endomyocardial Biopsy"
- There is a recently released U01 RFA for 1000 Genomes Project Dataset Analysis http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HG-09-002.html . The 1000 Genomes project is aiming to have over 1000 genomes completely sequenced in the next two years. This RFA is being released to encourage the development of analysis methods for this high density data. This application may be a good opportunity for our group to get a start in the analysis of whole genome sequencing data. We would like gauge the interest of our group in pursuing this application. More information about the 1000 Genomes project can be found here http://www.1000genomes.org/page.php
2008
Date: December 11, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Mary Boggiano from UAB's Department of Psychology discussed her application for Seeding Collaborative Interdisciplinary Team Science in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases (R24)
Dr. Rajani Sadasivam from the School of Medicine discussed his proposal entitled Scientific Search and Compile Tool for Evidence-based Research
Date: November 13, 2008
Cancelled.
Date: October 9, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
"Translating Basic Behavioral and Social Science Discoveries into Interventions to Reduce Obesity: Centers for Behavioral Intervention Development" by Dr. David Allison
Date: September 11, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Mary Wojczynski’s grant proposal
Recent RFAs by Dr. Rui Feng
Date: August 14, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
IRB issues related with using secondary data by Dr. Sheila D. Moore.
Date: July 10, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Video Watch: The NIH Grant Review Process
Enhancing NIH Peer Review Plan by Dr. Kui Zhang
Date: June 12, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Xiangqin Cui's NIH R01 proposal
Dr. Rui Feng's R01 Aims
Date: May 8, 2008: Cancelled
Date: April 10, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
NIH new publication policy by Mr. Scott Plutchak from the Lister Hill Library
Successful story of new investigator R01 by Dr. Nianjun Liu
Date: March 13, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Simple power calculations for ordinary gene association analyses by Dr.Nianjun Liu
Use of EEE by Dr. Hemant Tiwari
EEE launched from pilot data, the power of a graph, and the reporting of ‘any gene UIT power’ by Dr. David Allison
Use of Power Atlas by Dr.Grier Page
Date: February 14, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Career development/training grants by Ms. Melissa McBrayer
Date: January 10, 2008
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Introduction to Wiki by Mr. Jelai Wang.
2007
Date: December 13, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Choosing funding mechanism, guide for grant application, grant writing tips by Dr. Xiangqin Cui and Dr. Kui Zhang.
Dr. Olivia Thomas’s AHA grant and her experience in a CDC review panel.
Date: November 8, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Rui Feng’s R01 resubmission and review.
Date: October 11, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Grier Page’s NIH&NSF issues on diversity, childcare, and mentoring.
Dr. Solomon Musani’s K-award resubmission.
Dr. Hemant Tiwari’s short course grant.
Date: September 13, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Xiangqin Cui’s NSF R01 "Development of Splicing Microarray for Studying Functions of Arabidopsis Genes".
Dr. Scott Keith’s Tanita grant proposal.
Date: August 9, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Yun Joo Yoo's R03/R21 application "Haplotype Inference for HLA and KIR genes".
Dr. Krista Casazza's K-award proposal.
Date: July 12, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Discussion of RFA-MH-08-040 led by Dr. Nianjun Liu.
Watch a video – an overview of the electronic submission process by NIH.
Date: June 14, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Stephen Erickson's application for Burroughs Wellcome Fund's Career Awards at the Scientific Interface.
Dr. John Hartman's proposal "High dimensional phenotypic analysis using cell arrays".
Date: May 10, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Ideas for AMERICO Resubmission led by Dr. Jose Fernandez.
Dr. David Allison's R01 proposal "Design Issues in Obesity RCTs Building An Evidence Base".
Date: April 12, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Nianjun Liu's R01 application "Genome Wide Haplotype Association Analysis".
Two R01 proposals "Genome Wide Association Study for BPD" and "Discovery of the 6p21.3 Reading Disability Gene" led by Dr. Grier Page.
Date: March 8, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Rui Feng's R01 application "Methods for Linkage Analysis of Complex Ordinal Traits".
Dr. Grier Page's R01 "Continued Development of the PowerAtlas".
Date: Feburary 8, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Solomon Musani's grant application.
Dr. Daniel Shriner' K-award application and review.
Date: January 11, 2007
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Automated grant announcement services led by Dr. Mary Wojczynski.
How to writing clinical research grants led by Dr. Inmaculada Aban.
Review of funded NIH Statistical Genetic Method Grants by Stephen Erickson.
Review of funded NSF Statistical Genetic Method Grants by Doug Childers.
2006
Date: December 14, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
NIH’s Multiple Principal Investigator Policy lead by Dr. Xiangqin Cui.
A mock study section chaired by Dr. Cutter includes:
(i) overview of peer review process and guidelines for reviewers by Dr. Cutter
(ii) review of Dr. Gao's R01 application “Haplotyping and QTL Mapping in Pedigrees with Missing Data” by Dr. Page, Dr. Cutter and Dr. Allison;
(iii)review Dr. Allison's R01 “Genome-wide Structured Association Testing & Regional Admixture Mapping” by Dr. Coffey, Dr. Beasley, and Dr. Tiwari
Date: November 9, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Rui Feng’s UAB Faculty Development Award application.
Dr. David Redden’s application to RFA-HG-06-032.
Date: September 14, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Hemant Tiwari’s Multiple Imputation R01 proposal and his R21 pink sheets.
Dr. Grier Page's R01 proposal.
Date: August 10, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Kelley L. Vaughan’s K-award submission
Possible ideas in genome-wide association studies, led by Dr. Edmond K. Kabagambe
Date: July 13, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Drs. Loraine and Cui's NSF grant review
Grant opportunities led by Dr. Nianjun Liu
Date: June 8, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Xiangqin Cui’s PKD grant resubmission
Date: May 11, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Kui Zhang's proposal submission
Dr. David Allison's CEGS grant preparation.
Date: April 13, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Solomon Musani’s proposal submission
Dr. Jasmin Divers’ proposal resubmission
Date: March 9, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Stanislav Zakharkin’s K-award proposal resubmission
CEGS grant application lead by Dr. David Allison
Date: Feburary 9, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Nita Limdi and Dr. David Redden, “How to get a K-award”
Date: January 12, 2006
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Dale Williams, “How Late is Fedex Open?”
Dr. Robert Eckel, “So You Want to Write a Grant?”
2005
Date: December 8, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Mahyar Sabripour’s K-award proposal.
Dr. Miguel Padilla’s supplemental grant application:“measurement error in admixture mapping".
Date: Novermber 10, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Kui Zhang’s R01 renewal “Haplotype Analysis in linkage disequilibrium mapping”.
Dr. Mark Beasley’s proposal “Admixture Mapping”.
Date: October 13, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Grier Page’s R01 renewal “Design & Analysis of Microarray Gene Expression Studies in Plants”.
Dr. Guimin Gao’s R01 proposal “Haplotyping and QTL mapping in Pedigrees with Missing Data”.
Date: September 8, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Miguel Padilla’s Supplement Grant.
Resubmission of EMSW21 “Training Future Leaders in Statistical Genetics”, led by Dr. Xiangqin Cui.
Date: August 11, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Grant writing tips and submission mechanisms by Dr. David Allison.
A live mock study section by Dr. Gary Cutter, Dr. Stacey Cofield and Dr. Mark Beasley
Date: June, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Grier Page: Renew RCN Network
Hemant Tiwari: Renew Multiple Imputation
Date: April, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Michael Windle: his grant “Genetics of Alcohol, Depression, and Temperament”
Kui Zhang: Comments about his R01 grant
Date: March, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Kyoungmi presentation of abstract and specific aims for R03 on pleiotropy
Stas on K-Award Application
Date: February, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Xiangqin Cui: Alabama Mississippi Sea Grant program
Grier Page: on concept of ‘Omega Analysis’ and grant applications that could be based on it.
Date: January, 2005
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Scott Keith: Individual Pre-Doctoral Training
Grant Opportunities at NIH & NSF
Murat Tanik: FIBR Grant
2004
Date: December, 2004
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Jasmin Divers: Minority Supplement
Ann Loraine: Plant 2010 grant
Date: Novermber, 2004
Topic discussed:
Explanation of Automated grant opportunity announcement list serves (NIH, NSF, FedOpps, COS).
Presentation of writings and videos with grant writing tips.
Discussion of NIH grant mechanisms (R01, R25, R03, R21, K-awards, NRSA’s, R13, etc.)
Date: October, 2004
Topic discussed:
Video Watch: The NIH Grant Review Process.
Date: September, 2004
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Mock NIH Grant Review Process:
Dr, David Allison, Dr. David Redden, and Dr. Mark Beasley reviewed Dr. Hemant Tiwari’s grant (admixture mapping). Dr. Varghese George, Dr. Grier Page, and Dr. Chris Coffey will review Dr. Yi’s grant (QTL mapping)
Date: August, 2004
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Dr. Grier Page: His grant application
Dr. Stanislav Zakharkin: his grant application
Date: July, 2004
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Hemant Tiwari: his R01 on missing data imputation.
Kui Zhang: his R01 on haplotype analysis.
Date: June, 2004
Topic discussed and Leaders:
Varghese George: competitive renewal of Short Course grant.
Solomon Musani: his first grant.