Proposal Development Training

This four-part workshop series focuses on developing NIH research grant applications.

Getting Started! Useful NIH Tools

Tuesday, April 22, 11:00 – 11:45 a.m.

This session will demonstrate critical tools and databases, such as Matchmaker, for determining an appropriate study section and institute at NIH, as well as contact information for program officers.

Presented by Barb Duncan, PhD

Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/89396660861

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Developing Your NIH Research Plan – Specific Aims and Research Strategy

Tuesday, April 24, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

This session will introduce structures and writing tips to aid in developing effective Specific Aims page and Research Strategy section.

Presented by Kathy Grzech, MA

Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/89957787323

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Navigating the NIH Resubmission Process

May 2, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

This session will discuss key points to consider for resubmitting an NIH application and provide tips for writing effective responses to reviewer critiques in the Introduction component.

Presented by Erik Davidshofer, MA

Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/87113783644

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Maximizing Your NIH Biosketch

May 13, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.

This session will walk through the NIH Biosketch format and present advice for crafting each section to tell a compelling, cohesive story about your professional development.

Presented by Lou Hurst, MA

Zoom link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/88224633148

Writing a concept paper is a way to capture and clarify your research ideas. We’ll walk through a simple formula for a concept paper and then discuss how to adapt and refine it into a grant proposal narrative. 

Presented by Lou Hurst

This session will introduce a range of foundational knowledge about grants that will help participants navigate the funding landscape. We will cover what grants are, and how they work; how to understand the perspective of potential funders; how to find funders that are aligned with your research; and how to use this knowledge to develop a competitive proposal.

Presented by Lou Hurst

Alumni Gallery (1-65), W.T. Young Library or Online via Zoom

Sponsored by The Graduate School

We’ll investigate NIH’s new Simplified Review Criteria and the implications of these changes for your proposal development strategy.

Presented by Barb Duncan

We will discuss of upcoming changes to NIH grants and fellowship submissions.

Presented by Kathy Grzech, MA

UK TRIAD (T32) Trainees

This intensive grant writing course for College of Medicine faculty focuses on NIH R01 or equivalent types of applications. Participation of by pre-registration only.

Topics covered in this series include the following:

Session 1: Overview of the NIH grant process and expectations
Thursday, February 20, 2-4pm

Session 2: Specific Aims
Thursday, February 27, 2-4 pm

Session 3: Significance and Innovation
Thursday, March 20, 2-4 pm

Session 4: Approach
Thursday, March 27, 2-4 pm

Session 5: Course Wrap-up
Thursday, April 17, 2-4 pm

Presented by Phil Kern, MD; Kathy Doyle Grzech, MA; Barb Duncan, PhD

Presented by Elizabeth Ford, Rae Goodwin, Ben Southworth

Via closed Zoom session. 

Are you interested in exploring DOD funding for your research? This session will discuss how (and why) to develop a White Paper in response to DOD’s Broad Agency Announcements.

Presented by Lou Hurst

This session will cover the very basics of grantseeking, including how to find appropriate funding opportunities and how to write a competitive proposal.

Presented by Erik Davidshofer and Lou Hurst

In this inaugural session of "Friday High-Five with PDO," the Proposal Development Office's new weekly workshop series, we will introduce you to our office and the array of services and resources we offer to UK investigators seeking grants.

Presented by Lou Hurst

Explore this prestigious NSF award that supports research and education plans for non-tenured faculty. What steps do you need to take to apply in July?

This is the second session of "Friday High-Five with PDO," the Proposal Development Office's new weekly workshop series.

Presented by Shana Herron

Link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/87684187889

This workshop for NIH-funded trainees will outline the proposal development route at UK and introduce the services the Proposal Development Office (PDO) provides to UK grantseekers.

Presented by Lou Hurst & Halley Todd

UK Center for Clinical & Translational Services (CCTS)

This course session of MI 704 will cover elements of the Research Plan narrative for an NIH F31 application: Significance, Innovation, and Rigor of Prior Research.

Presented by Lou Hurst

UK College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

This session will first walk through the grant life cycle at UK from concept ideation through submission, award and post-award administration. We will outline the full range of support services available; describe when, where and how to request these services; and clarify roles of the PI and the various grants support staff. The second part of the session will provide an overview of SciENcv and upcoming changes to the NIH biosketch forms. Topics will include: Planning for the upcoming changes to the NIH Biosketch or Common Forms; signing up for an ORCID ID; connecting your ORCID ID to your eraCommons Profile; creating an NIH Biosketch in SciENcv; and assigning a "delegate" to enter your information.

Presented by Lou Hurst and Barb Duncan

UK ASCEND (Achieving Success in Community-Engaged research to elimiNate Disparities)

Link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/85877010143

This workshop will present a commonly used structure for writing a compelling Specific Aims page for NIH proposals. The structure is advantageous, as it that can be adapted to multiple NIH funding mechanisms. 

Presented by Erik Davidshofer

UK Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

NIH’s Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy, which went into effect in January 2023, has established new requirements for grant applicants to put forward a plan explaining how their research data will be made accessible to other researchers and the public. At this session, Research Data Librarian Isaac Wink will cover the major elements of the policy researchers need to know and provide guidance on writing successful data management and sharing plans. Specific topics will include:

• An overview of the DMS Policy and its requirements
• Resources for developing a DMS plan
• Suggestions for selecting a data repository and budgeting for data management and sharing
• Perspectives on data management practices to ensure that scientific data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).

This intensive grant writing course for College of Medicine faculty focuses on NIH R01 or equivalent types of applications. Participation of by pre-registration only.

Topics covered in this series include the following:

Session 1: Overview of the NIH grant process and expectations
Wednesday, September 18, 2-4 pm

Session 2: Specific Aims
Wednesday, September 25, 2-4 pm

Session 3: Significance and Innovation
Wednesday, October 16, 2-4 pm

Session 4: Approach
Wednesday, October 30, 2-4 pm

Session 5: Course Wrap-up
Wednes,day November 20, 2-4 pm

Presented by Phil Kern, MD; Kathy Doyle Grzech, MA; Barb Duncan, PhD

Join us in this overview session of SciENcv to learn more about the upcoming changes to the NIH biosketch and to get you started on the process.

Topics will include: 

• Planning for the upcoming changes to the NIH Biosketch or Common Forms
• Signing up for an ORCID ID
• Connecting your ORCID ID to your eraCommons Profile
• Creating an NIH Biosketch in SciENcv
• Assigning a "delegate" to enter your information

Speaker: Barbara Duncan

A recording of this session and its slides are available on the PDO Docs SharePoint.

This session will walk through the grant life cycle at UK from concept ideation through submission, award and post-award administration. We will outline the full range of support services available; describe when, where and how to request these services; and clarify roles of the PI and the various grants support staff. The session will include a live Q&A with representatives from the Proposal Development Office (PDO), Foundation & Corporate Philanthropy (FCP), Collaborative Grant Services (CGS), and the Office of Sponsored Projects Administration (OSPA).   

Presenters: Lou Hurst (PDO), Jessica Koenigsknecht-Talboo (FCP), Charolette Garland (CGS), Clair Abney (CGS), Honey Elder (OSPA)

A recording of this session is available on the PDO Docs SharePoint.

Presented by Karin Pekarchik

Sponsored by the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Presented by Lou Hurst

Sponsored by the UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment 

This workshop will introduce UK Proposal Development Office services and distinctions from Collaborative Grant Services services. Hands-on Pivot training to establish Pivot profiles and identify funding  opportunities in this subscription database.

Presenter: Kathy Grzech

Hands-on Pivot team: Erik Davidshofer, Barb Duncan, Ben Southworth, Halley Todd

College of Design Faculty Advancement Workshop

PDO Honor and Awards is offering an interactive workshop (offered three times) to help faculty at all career stages learn how to position themselves for career-boosting external honors and awards.

Topics covered include:

• How honors and awards add to scholarship
• Strategic planning and stepping stones for your career stage
• Envisioning your career trajectory

The one-hour workshop will be offered on the following days:

• September 18, 2pm
• October 16, 2pm
• November 13, 2pm

Presented by Allison Elliott & Karin Pekarchik

Presented by Karin Pekarchik

UK M-G CAFE Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition

This workshop will cover how to find grant opportunities across various disciplines using the Pivot funding opportunities database and PDO Funding Alerts.

Presented by Erik Davidshofer

Sponsoring unit: UK Proposal Development Office

Presented by Karin Pekarchik and Allison Elliott

UK College of Engineering Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Presented by Lou Hurst

This workshop for the UK Appalachian Tobacco Regulatory Science Team (AppalTRuST) Scholars will cover considerations for developing a proposal to the recently-released Tobacco Regulatory Science (TRS) Pilot Funding RFA.  It will also present general advice for reviewing a funding opportunity and developing a responsive proposal, as well as an overview of resources and support available from PDO.

Location: virtual

Presented by Isaac Wink

This session, led by UK Libraries' Research Data Librarian Isaac Wink, will provide an overview of NSF Data Management and Sharing plan requirements, resources for developing a plan, suggestions for selecting a data repository and budgeting for data management and sharing, and perspectives on data management practices to ensure that scientific data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reproducible.

Presented by Lou Hurst

UK College of Medicine

Presented by Erik Davidshofer and Lou Hurst

UK Center for Applied Energy Research

This workshop will cover how to find and track suitable grant opportunities for energy and materials science using the Pivot funding opportunities database. In this hands-on session, attendees will learn how to use Pivot’s search functions, claim and refine their researcher profiles, and deploy tools for staying up to date with funding opportunities such as saved searches, curated searches, and newsletters.

Presented by Erik Davidshofer
UK College of Medicine

This workshop will cover planning steps prior to writing a proposal, characteristics of a competitive proposal, strategies for writing the overview page of a proposal, and ways to present proposal information effectively to reviewers.

Presented by Lou Hurst

This program, which is only available to researchers in states with DEPSCoR designation, encourages collaborations on basic research projects in 16 science and engineering topics between a researcher who is new to DOD funding and a partner who has had a DOD grant within the last 5 years. We will cover strategies for finding suitable collaborators (including some here at UK), structuring a successful collaboration, and presenting the proposed collaborative research at both the white paper and full proposal stage.

White Papers are due June 24, 2024

Presented by Shana Herron

The NSF CAREER program awards prestigious five-year grants to non-tenured faculty for integrated research and education programs in any of the science, engineering and education fields NSF supports. We will analyze successful CAREER proposals and discuss UK models and resources for education plans.

Full Proposals are due July 24, 2024

Presented by Allison Elliott

UK College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

Presented by Lou Hurst
UK College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

Participants will learn about the concept of Responsible Conduct Research and considerations for preparing the Facilities and Other Resources document for an NIH F31 application.

Participants will

1) gain insights into the UK Igniting Research Collaborations (IRC) program requirements, priorities, and review processes;

2) learn strategies for developing a two-page IRC proposal; and

3) introduce Proposal Development Office services to support IRC proposal development.

Presented by Kathy Grzech

Presented by Marjorie Stanek
UK Department of Sociology

Presented by Erik Davidshofer
UK College of Dentistry

Upon completing this training, participants will be able to identify the main features of the Pivot database and conduct funding searches using this tool.

Presented by Barb Duncan
Disparities Researchers Equalizing Access for Minorities (DREAM) Scholars Program

This presentation will discuss the importance of the biosketch in NIH grant applications and provide guidance on the content to include when developing this document.

Presented by Erik Davidshofer and Karin Pekarchik
UK Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics

Presented by Erik Davidshofer
UK Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry

Presented by Lou Hurst
UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Faculty Council

This workshop covers the features and considerations that set grant writing apart from other kinds of academic writing, and introduces drafting Concept Papers as a way to practice "selling" your ideas to potential funders.

Presented by Karin Pekarchik
UK Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Faculty Council

Presented by Lou Hurst
UK College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics

This course session will cover elements of the Research Plan narrative for an NIH F31 application: Significance, Innovation, and Rigor of Prior Research.