Tips for the Beginning Grantseeker

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Tips for the Beginning Grantseeker

• An Overview of Grants and Funding for Graduate
  Students, Predocs and Postdocs

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Assistance Award Mechanisms(Sponsored Funding)

• Scholarship for graduate students and
  undergraduates
• Associateship usually post graduate masters
  level or postdoctoral
• Assistantship usually graduate level
• Fellowship may be for predoc, postdoc or senior
  investigators. At NIH they are known as
  Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA)
  fellowships (F-series)
• Dissertation Grant or Fellowship supports the
  end of predoctoral training
• Career Award varies from early postdoc to first
  faculty appointment
• Traineeship predoc or postdoc support on a
  larger grant made to an institution. At NIH
  trainees are usually supported on T32 NRSAs, or
  other institutional research training grants.

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Assistance Mechanisms (cont.)

• Supplement predoc or postdoc, must be attached
  to a parent grant under another PI
• Scholar Award support for late postdoc training
  and/or early first faculty appointment
• Young Investigator Program or Award must have
  first faculty appointment
• New Investigator Award same as Young
  Investigator Award
• Beginning Grant-in-Aid - early independent
  research usually requires a faculty appointment
• Grant-in-Aid for more established investigators
  with faculty appointments
• Research Grant usually requires a faculty
  appointment considered an independent
  investigator (includes the R00 and the R01)
• Internships and Residencies are not assistance
  mechanisms.

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Annual Deadlines National Programs

• April 1, 2007 - American Cancer Society -
  Research Scholar Grants in Basic, Preclinical,
  Clinical, and Epidemiology Research
• Apr 8, Aug 8, Dec 8 - NIH Individual Fellowships
  New Standing Deadlines
• Apr 10, Aug 10, Dec 10 - AHRQ Grants for Health
  Services Research Dissertation (R36)
• May 1, 2007 - NRC Research Associateship
  Programs - Masters level and postdoctoral and
  senior research awards sponsored by thirty
  federal laboratories
• July - National Space Biomedical Research
  Institute Postdoctoral Fellowships

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NIH Awards for each career stage for Ph.D.s
K01 or K25
T32 -- Institutional Training Grant (NRSA) -- has
pre- and postdoc slots F31 -- Individual
Predoctoral Fellowships (NRSA) F32 -- Individual
Postdoctoral Fellowship (NRSA) K01 Mentored
Research Development Award K25 Mentored
Quantitative Research Development Award K22 --
Research Scholar Development Award or Career
Transition Award K99/R00 -- NIH Pathway to
Independence Award R01 -- Research Grant K02 --
Independent Scientist Award F33 -- Senior
Postdoctoral Fellowship (NRSA) R37 -- MERIT Award
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Career Development Awards (K-series)

• An Award that supports Ph.D.s and clinicians
  seeking training to develop a career in
  biomedical research activity codes are in the K
  series.
• Except for the K99/R00 award, applicants must be
  U.S. citizens or have permanent residency status
  (an Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form I-551).
  Non-citizens who have applied for a Form I-551
  and expect to receive it by the earliest award
  date may apply, though those with student or
  other temporary visas are not eligible.

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NEW NIH K99/R00Pathway to Independence Award

• For the rising star with less than 5 years
  post-doctoral research experience
• 1-2 year mentored phase (K99)
• Independent phase years 3-5 (R00). To activate
  individuals must have been offered and accepted a
  tenure-track, full time assistant professor
  position (or equivalent).
• Open to citizens, permanent residents, and
  non-citizens on a temporary visa
• Deadlines Feb 12, Jun 12, Oct 12

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Advice for fellowship and k-award applicants

• Before you apply for a fellowship or mentored
  career development award, select an established
  scientist to act as your sponsor throughout the
  project. For some projects, you may need two
  sponsors

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NIH

• Register with the NIH eRA Commons!
• Research fellows who are submitting applications
   to NIH and AHRQ must have an eRA Commons account
  https//commons.era.nih.gov/commons/ .
• Contact the Office of Sponsored Programs to
  register. (x69400)
• Get ready for Grants.gov!
• NIH has postponed the transition of K-awards,
  Fellowships and Training grants to electronic
  until further notice.

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More information

• NIAID has an excellent tutorial on NIH Research
  Training, Career Awards, and Research
  Supplements http//www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/trainin
  g/advice/index.htm
• NIH Career Wizard - a series of questions help
  you identify which NIH Career Award might be
  right for you http//grants.nih.gov/training/kwiz
  ard/index.htm
• NIH Career Resources (Internal and external
  links) http//grants.nih.gov/training/resources.h
  tm

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Tools For Finding Funding Information
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• START EARLY!
• Many programs require 6 to 12 months lead time
  from time of application to award.

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Tips on Finding Funding

• Define your search criteria
• Conduct a preliminary search of funding databases
  based on your criteria
• Dig deeper, narrow your prospects based on the
  sponsors interests or restrictions
• Contact a program officer if possibleand ask
  questions

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Identify any special criteria such as
citizenship.

• Many funding agencies require you to be a U.S.
  citizen or non-citizen national or permanent
  resident either at time of award or time of
  application for individual awards. (traineeships,
  fellowships and career awards).

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Check Eligibility

• Pay close attention to the sponsors eligibility
  requirements in terms of training status
  graduate student, Masters level, Predoc, Postdoc,
  first faculty appointment.
• If you are a postdoc, the number of years of
  postdoctoral research experience you have may be
  an important factor.

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Search funding databases SPIN advanced
searching of over 8,000 funding programs
http//rdhs.utmb.edu
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Grantsnet funding database http//www.grantsnet
.org/ Pre-screened for graduate students and new
investigators in the Sciences
Welcome to GrantsNet, your one-stop resource to
find funds for training in the sciences and
undergraduate science education. Through the
support of HHMI and AAAS, this service is
completely free.
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• UTMB Research Listservhttp//research.utmb.edu/s
  tarline/listserv.htm

Click here to
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Sign up for funding alerts from SMARTS
http//rdhs.utmb.edu

• Login using your UTMB username password

• Check your profile for accuracy
• Name
• ID
• email
• department
• citizenship

• Click on Find Funding SMARTS

• Select Keywords for matching

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Open Quick Links
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Get Proposal Help
Look up staff contacts in OSP
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Contacts

• Contact Research Services for help with funding
  searches, sponsor guidelines, and proposal
  submission Suite 4.400 Rebecca Sealy East
• Linda Crumpler, Reference LibrarianResearch
  Funding Library x694314.400 Rebecca Sealy
  Eastemail research.office_at_utmb.eduOr
  lcrumple_at_utmb.edu
• Office of Sponsored Programs x69400