Tackling Your K Writing Club

A Grant Writing Club for Writing Career Development Awards

The Office of Pediatric Research Development is excited to announce that 2025 Tackling your K Club will begin in March with the dynamic, in person Map Your K Award! All Pediatrics instructors, fellows, and postdocs submitting their NIH K awards for the June/Oct 2025 or Feb 2026 deadlines are invited to join. 

Map Your K Award and Tackling your K Club 2025 Registration (Click Here)

Map Your K Award

When: March 6, 2025, 11-2 pm (lunch included)

Where: Red Oak Room Cafe Arbor, CAM

What: Discuss K Award requirements and use design thinking to prototype your proposal.  

Tackling Your K Club

When: Weekly, March-June on Thursdays 1-2 pm

Where: Zoom

In the Tackling Your K Club we will discuss grant writing fundamentals and strategies to address the many components of the NIH K application (K08, K23, K99/R00, etc.), including detailed training, mentoring, and research plans. Participants will understand the application process, learn novel ways including design thinking principles for mapping their K proposal, participate in the interactive peer-review feedback sessions, receive individualized feedback, and learn how to "think like a reviewer".

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Vinita Bharat, Office of Pediatric Research Development.

Neha Joshi

K23

Ananta Addala

K23

Yair Bannett

K23

William Goodyer

K08

Ken Sutha

K08

David Staudt

K08

Shivani Mathur Giaha

K99/R00

Lea Steffes

K08