NIH

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NIH

• Office of Proposal Development
• Phyllis McBride, Ph.D.
• p-mcbride_at_tamu.edu
• April 12, 2006

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Office of Proposal Development

• Unit of the Vice President for Research
• Supports faculty in the development and writing
  of research and educational proposals
• Center-level initiatives
• Multi-disciplinary research teams
• Research affinity groups
• Junior faculty research
• Diversity in the research enterprise

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OPD Web Page

• Located at http//opd.tamu.edu/
• Serves as an interactive tool and faculty
  resource for the development and writing of
  competitive research and educational proposals to
  federal agencies and foundations
• Includes information on
• Funding opportunities
• Junior faculty support
• Proposal development resources
• Grant writing seminars and workshops
• Grant writing workbooks and toolkits
• PI perspectives on competitive proposals

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OPD Staff

• Jean Ann Bowman jbowman_at_tamu.edu
• Ecological and environmental sciences
  agriculture-related proposals and centers
• Libby Childress libbyc_at_tamu.edu
• Scheduling, resources, training workshop
  management, project coordination
• Mike Cronan mikecronan_at_tamu.edu
• Center-level proposals, AM System partnerships,
  new proposal and training initiatives
• Lucy Deckard l-deckard_at_tamu.edu
• New faculty initiative, fellowships, physical
  science-related proposals, equipment and
  instrumentation, interdisciplinary materials
  group, OPD web management
• Phyllis McBride p-mcbride_at_tamu.edu
• Craft of proposal writing training, NIH and
  related agency initiatives in the biomedical,
  social, and behavioral sciences editing and
  rewriting
• Robyn Pearson rlpearson_at_tamu.edu
• Education, liberal arts, social and behavioral
  sciences, and humanities-related proposals
  support for interdisciplinary research group
  development educational proposals editing and
  rewriting

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Panelists

• David Carlson
• VP for Research and Graduate Studies, HSC
• Raymond Carroll
• Distinguished Professor, Statistics
• Ellen Collisson
• Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology
• K.C. Donnelly, Professor and Head
• Environmental and Occupational Health
• Susan Golden
• Distinguished Professor, Biology
• Jim Grau
• Professor, Psychology
• Greg Reinhart
• Professor and Head, Biochemistry and Biophysics

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NIH History

• Created in 1887 as a one-room laboratory
• Now considered one of the worlds foremost
  research entities
• Serves as a steward for medical and behavioral
  research for the nation

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NIH Organization

• National Institutes of Health
• Office of the Director
• 20 Institutes
• 7 Centers
• All institutes and centers work together as an
  integrated research network
• But, each institute and center also has its own
  specific research agenda

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NIH Office of the Director

• Sets policy for NIH
• Obtains input from many sources
• Patients and their advocacy groups
• Physicians and other health professionals
• Intramural and extramural scientific community
• President and Congress
• Provides an established frameworkby which
  priorities are identified, reviewed, and justified

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NIH Mission

• To uncover new knowledge that will lead to better
  health for everyone
• Basic scientific research in pursuit of
  fundamental knowledge about the nature and
  behavior of living systems
• Applied scientific research to extend healthy
  life and reduce the burdens of illness and
  disability

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NIH Extramural Research

• Supports mission by funding research in
• Causes, diagnosis, prevention, and cure of human
  diseases
• Processes of human growth and development
• Biological effects of environmental contaminants
• Understanding of mental, addictive and physical
  disorders
• Directing programs for the collection,
  dissemination, and exchange of information in
  medicine and health, including the development
  and support of medical libraries and the training
  of medical librarians and other health
  information specialists.

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NIH Areas of Research Interest

• Serve as broad categories of NIH-sponsored
  research that show potential for future benefits
• Encourage institutes to develop new initiatives
  within these areas
• Applied in a variety of ways, depending on the
  institute

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NIH Funding Priorities FY 2007

• Genes, environment, and health
• Biodefense
• Pandemic influence
• NIH roadmap for medical research
• New investigators
• Clinical research translation

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NIH Budget FY 2007

• 28.6 billion
• Majority of funds are earmarked for extramural
  research
• Receives 35,000 research project grant
  applications each year
• 32 of those applications succeed in gaining
  research funding

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Identify NIH Funding Opportunities

• NIH funding opportunities page
• http//grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/index.html
• Search by keyword
• Browse by Requests for Applications (RFAs)
• Browse by Program Announcements (PAs)
• Automatic funding alerts
• Grants.gov
• http//www.grants.gov/search/agency.do
• Search by keyword
• Search by funding opportunity number
• Search by CFDA number
• Search by category
• Search by agency
• Automatic funding alerts

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Identify NIH Funding Mechanisms

• NIH funding mechanisms page
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding_progr
  am.htm
• Describes the types of funding mechanisms
  available
• Numerous funding mechanisms
• Not all institutes support all funding mechanisms
• Popular funding mechanisms
• R01 Research Project Grant
• R03 Small Research Project Grant
• R21 Developmental Research Grant
• K99/00 Pathway to Independence Award

New!
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Identify NIH Grant Cycles

• NIH submission dates/deadlines page
• http//grants.nih.gov/grants/dates.htm
• Three grant cycles per calendar year
• Deadlines vary according to funding mechanism
• Grant cycles for new R01s, R03s, R21s, and K
  awards
• February 1
• June 1
• October 1

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Identify Projects Already Funded by NIH

• CRISP online database
• http//crisp.cit.nih.gov/
• Includes abstracts of all projects that have
  already been funded by all Public Health Service
  agencies
• National Institutes of Health
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Food and Drug Administration
• Health Resources and Services Administration
• Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration

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Search the CRISP Database
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Know the NIH Review Criteria

• Investigator
• Environment
• Significance
• Approach
• Innovation

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Understand the NIH Review Process

• Center for Scientific Review
• http//cms.csr.nih.gov/
• Describes the peer review process
• Offers a video of a mock review session
• Provides a list of study section rosters

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Understand the NIH Review Process

• Review process is merit-based
• Individual reviews of all applications
• Panel reviews of the top 50 of applications
• (i.e., of applications that have not been
  streamlined)
• Priority score and percentile ranking are sent to
  PI
• Summary statement is sent to PI

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Write for Reviewers

• Reviewers are
• Smart
• Accomplished
• Dedicated
• Fair

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Write for Reviewers

• Reviewers are also
• Busy
• Overworked
• Tired
• Skeptical
• May not be as knowledgeable about the details of
  the proposed topic as the PI is

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Helpful Links

• NIH grants tutorials
• http//www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/grants/default.htm
• Grant Application Basics
• How to Plan a Grant Application
• How to Write a Grant Application
• How to Manage Your Grant Award
• Advice on Research Training and Career Awards
• Annotated R01 Grant Application

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Questions and Panel Discussion

• David Carlson
• VP for Research and Graduate Studies, HSC
• Raymond Carroll
• Distinguished Professor, Statistics
• Ellen Collisson
• Professor, Veterinary Pathobiology
• K.C. Donnelly, Professor and Head
• Environmental and Occupational Health
• Susan Golden
• Distinguished Professor, Biology
• Jim Grau
• Professor, Psychology
• Greg Reinhart
• Professor and Head, Biochemistry and Biophysics