2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Friday Fri
Pragmatic Strategies for R01 Applications: Addressing the new NIH Simplified Peer Review Framework
Virtual via Zoom
This 50-minute workshop will cover 2 pragmatic strategies that explicitly address the new NIH Simplified Peer Review Framework for R01 applications. Attendees will learn how to clearly distinguish between Significance and Innovation (NIH Factor 1) and to present Approach details so that Rigor can be easily evaluated (NIH Factor 2). To review the new NIH Framework ahead of the workshop, see: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/peer-review/simplifying-review/framework
Speaker
Michaela Kiernan
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.