FROM GENES TO GRANTS: WRITING WINNING RESEARCH PROPOSALS IN GENETICS

NUTRSCI 745

Interactively address the knowledge, approach, and professional skills (conceptual, technical, and writing) required to create a successful grant proposal and initiate a career in research. Format is focused on the planning and completion of NIH-style grant proposals. Lectures and workshops will address the development of long term goals, hypotheses, and specific aims, as well as research design and methodology. Basic guidelines and approaches to proposal review and scoring are also covered. Several key components of a grant proposal will be generated using an iterative and peer-supported process.

GENETICS 705

Provides support, processes, and tools for advancing graduate research and refining individual research topics. Adjust and refine goals of a research topic to maximize the impact of doctoral research and learn how to navigate the shifting landscape of research throughout doctoral studies. Boost emerging graduate research plans by gaining operations skills in independent knowledge acquisition and technical skills in basic computational biology. Activities include shaping a research question, identifying barriers in the research process, building a reference bibliography of relevant background literature, using databases and other electronic resources that inform research, and operating basic tools to determine gene function.

GENECSLR 739

Introduction to a variety of tools and resources commonly used in clinical genetics. Learn to critique these resources and start thinking about developing their own research projects. Emphasizes developing oral presentation skills through a variety of student presentations.

ONCOLOGY 735

Scientific writing. Evaluation of exemplar fellowship applications. Creation of a research proposal with iterative, constructive feedback. Constructive, articulate feedback on classmates' writing.

S&APHM 701

Prepare to enter professional careers requiring knowledge of grant-writing. Mechanics of proposal writing and social aspects of "grantsmanship," skill development in identifying sources of grant funding, practice research to support applications, and tailor proposals to specific audience interests. Utilizing an iterative and peer supported process, draft parts of an R36 dissertation grant.