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Write Winning Grant Proposals – NIH & NSF Focus
Date: Friday, June 7, 2024
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Location: Hilton Jackson
Room: Diplomat I
Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 23, 2024
This widely acclaimed seminar comprehensively addresses both practical and conceptual aspects that are important to the proposal-writing process. Emphasis is given to such things as idea development, identification of the most appropriate granting agency, how to write for reviewers, and tips and strategies that are of proven value in presenting an applicant’s case to reviewers.
Participants are taught to write with a linear progression of logic, which leads reviewers through their applications. It is stressed that applicants are writing for two different audiences – the assigned reviewers, who have read the application in its entirety, and non-assigned reviewers who may have read little, or nothing, of the proposal before the meeting of the review panel. Strategies, tools, and tips designed to merit a fundable priority score are emphasized. The focus of the seminar will be on grant applications to the NIH and the NSF, although the principles that are taught are transposable to other funding agencies.
All participants will receive an extensive handout, as well as a selected version of The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook.
Click HERE to read a description of each version of The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook. You will be asked to choose which version you want to order in the registration form.
Dr. John Robertson, PhD
Managing Member, Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops
Dr. Robertson received his Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in pharmacology and toxicology in 1999. From 1999-2003, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. He was subsequently hired in 2004 by the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, KS, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology & Therapeutics, and an associate member of the University of Kansas Cancer Center. In 2010, he was recruited to teach grantsmanship by Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops as an Associate Member. In 2017, he became the Managing Member of the company. Dr. Robertson has been the recipient of competitive extramural funding from both the NIH and non-federal sources. He has authored 30 peer-reviewed journal articles and three book chapters. He has been a member of grant review panels, a reviewer for a number of biomedical journals, and served on editorial boards. In addition, he has been routinely recognized for excellence in teaching.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 23, 2024
Writing and Publishing High-Impact Research Manuscripts
Date: Friday, June 7, 2024
Time: 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Location: Hilton Jackson
Room: Diplomat II
Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 23, 2024
This seminar will help attendees write clear and concise biomedical research manuscripts, thereby improving the probability that their manuscripts will be accepted by the journals they target. The seminar is geared toward faculty, clinical and postdoctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students. Seminar attendees will improve their ability to:
- Compose an Abstract that efficiently communicates all key new findings from their study
- Construct an Introduction that provides a conceptual justification for the research reported in the manuscript
- Prepare a Results Section that clearly communicates the rationale for performing each experiment, the data generated from those experiments, and a preliminary interpretation of those results
- Compose a Discussion that effectively communicates the major conclusions of the manuscript, the evidence leading to those conclusions, and the significance of these new findings to their field
- Distinguish references that should be cited in their manuscript from those that should not be cited
- Select an appropriate journal for their manuscript submission based on scope, acceptance rates, impact factor, and accessibility
- Formulate an informed strategy regarding who should, and should not, be included as authors on their manuscripts, and the order in which they should be listed
- Interact more effectively with Reviewers and Editors, as their manuscript is reviewed, and revise their manuscript accordingly
Dr. Christoper Papasian, PhD
Managing Member, Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops
Dr. Papasian received his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the SUNY at Buffalo in 1982, and stayed in Buffalo for a postdoctoral fellowship in Medical and Public Health Microbiology. He also received a Masters Degree in Veterinary Science from the University of Idaho. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Pathology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and as Director of Diagnostic Microbiology at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri. He subsequently moved to the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC-SOM), where he served as Department Chair of Biomedical Sciences from 1998-2017. He currently serves as an Associate Member with Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops, and is an Emeritus Professor at UMKC-SOM. Dr. Papasian is coauthor of over 130 peer reviewed publications and 12 book chapters, and coauthored the GWSW textbook entitled, “Writing for Biomedical Publication.” He has 25 years of Editorial Experience for Journals published by the American Society of Microbiology. Dr. Papasian has also written Microbiology and Immunology questions for USMLE Step I and the American Board of Medical Microbiology.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, May 23, 2024