Pediatric Cardiology
Dedicated Pre-award Services
UPDATE: NIH postpones May implementation of the Common Form (Biosketch and Other Support) SciENcv requirement
The NIH is postponing the May 25, 2025 implementation of the Common Form (Biosketch and Other Support) for all applications and Research Performance Progress Reports (RPPRs). NIH will issue future Guide Notices outlining the new effective date and additional implementation details as they are finalized. NIH applicants and recipients must continue to use the current NIH Biosketch and Other Support format pages for applications, Just-in-Time (JIT) and RPPRs. Your Pre-award Team is happy to help with any questions.
We offer dedicated pre-award services to division investigators on an integrated and/or ad hoc basis, including the areas below. Reach out to us anytime with any type of pre-award need: Leighann Rawls, Research Administration, lrawls@stanford.edu and/or Susan Salkind, Research Development, ssalkind@stanford.edu. We look forward to working with you!
Services
Coordinate with PI and RMG
Schedule and facilitate kick-off meetings
Help collect/prepare proposal administrative components such as PI waiver, PIF, budget development, Just-In-Time requests, checklists, and timelines
Review documents for completeness and compliance
Initiate applications and upload documents to sponsor portals (e.g., ASSIST, ProposalCentral)
Act as general point of contact (POC), including subaward POC, and oversee submission process
Finding funding opportunities
Editing and critically evaluating proposals
Providing input on text and figures
Interpreting sponsor requirements and providing strategic advice
Developing strategic plans and monitoring progress of proposal submissions
Catalyzing teams and building partnerships
Fostering innovation using competitive intelligence tools
One-on-one consultations
Leighann Rawls, lrawls@stanford.edu
Leighann Rawls serves the Pediatric Cardiology Division as pre-award research administrator. She has more than six years of research administration experience working in central sponsored research offices at University of Denver and Louisiana State University.
Susan Salkind, ssalkind@stanford.edu
Susan Salkind is a research development (RD) strategist/grant writer in the Stanford School of Medicine’s Office of Pediatric RD, serving the Pediatric Cardiology Division. She is a staff affiliate at the Stanford Center for Open and Reproducible Science (CORES), and an officer for the Stanford Research Development Community of Practice's "Excellence in RD" initiative. Previously, she served as an assistant director at a Stanford center for law and computer science, where she helped to revive a focal research theme leading to $1M in funding, and helped to secure $4M to establish a new lab in Engineering.