2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday Fri
Research Lunch & Learn: Optimize Your Grant Success: Hone Approach Details Well Ahead
Via Zoom
This 50-minute workshop highlights specific strategies to seamlessly align your Specific Aims page with your Approach at a Glance tables. Drafted well ahead, these tables quickly reveal gaps in logic, ambiguity in outcomes or analyses, and need for more preliminary data. Once honed, these concise tables can be easily integrated into your Research Strategy, then efficiently leveraged by grant reviewers. Learn to do them well—and what to avoid. Especially valuable for basic science investigators. Useful for all grants including NIH and foundations. Attendees are encouraged to review the R01 Countdown [Handouts] PDF ahead of the workshop (page 8, slides 3-5 and page 10). For the R01 Countdown [Handouts] PDF, see: https://doi.org/10.25740/yy394gb6954
Speaker
Michaela Kiernan, PhD
Michaela Kiernan, PhD currently directs the Stanford University School of Medicine (SOM) Office of Faculty Development and Diversity R01 Countdown Program, an intensive grant writing boot camp for early-career faculty, which has generated $173M in first-time NIH R01 funding and other grants across 14+ NIH Institutes for these faculty to date. Dr. Kiernan, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Prevention Research Center, received her PhD from Yale University, and has expertise in clinical and community research methods. She has been the Principal Investigator of multiple NIH R01 grants examining lifestyle intervention trials, and her current research focuses on retention strategies for randomized trials. Dr. Kiernan has served as an ad hoc member, standing member and co-chair of numerous NIH study sections and been awarded multiple SOM divisional teaching awards.