Fellowship Grant Submission Navigation for Graduate Students
The NIH F31 fellowship mechanism is a flagship opportunity for PhD students in the health sciences that provides external funding to cover stipend, tuition, fees, and health insurance and offers professional experience, prestige, and development of scientific identity.
Most PhD students have never prepared a formal grant application, let alone, a multifaceted NIH F31 grant application. These are burdensome applications, with difficult to navigate instructions, timelines, and application submission procedures. The Health Sciences Fellowship Workshop (HSFW) was created to guide PhD students in their application preparation. This workshop is not intended to be a grant writing course focused on articulating a scientific idea, but rather a workshop to help guide students toward a specific submission deadline.
Each Health Sciences Fellowship Workshop begins approximately 10 weeks prior to the NIH fellowship deadline. Each session is two hours, once a week, for 10 weeks. In addition to providing a productive writing environment and time for Q&A over the 10 weeks we will cover:
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Broad overview of required documents, NIH resources, University resources, and project timelines
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How to work with: NIH, Office of Sponsored Projects, and Grant Officers
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Applicant Background and Goals - Gap Analysis
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Building your Sponsor and Collaborator team
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Supporting documents
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De-Mystifying the review process