National Institute of
General Medical Sciences

• Research supplements and their role in supporting existing grants.
• The Diversity Supplement Program and its goal to facilitating the recruitment and training of promising scientists from a broad range of backgrounds (e.g., individuals from groups underrepresented in the biomedical research workforce).

Guest: Dr Shakira Nelson

• Basics of NIH and NIGMS. Discussion will include the NIGMS mission and funding opportunities.
  

• Learn more about the recently implemented Data Management and Sharing Policy and other sharing policies.

• Learn more about the NIGMS technology development pipeline with Drs. Kadir Aslan and Alvin Yeh.
  

• Learn more about the AREA R15 notice of funding opportunity with Drs. Anne Gershenson and Charles Ansong.
  
• Discussion will also include the NIH R15 webpage and the R16 SuRE and RLI-S10 notice of funding opportunities

• The importance of typical pieces of NIH applications such as biosketch, other support, foreign component, vertebrate animal section, notice of award, etc.

• The Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs), featuring references to currently available materials.

• With Dr. Miljan Simonovic, learn more about what happens in the review process after you receive a Summary Statement and what your next steps might be.
  

• Discussion will center on topics related to referral and peer review at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR). We welcome Dr. Smith, Scientific Review Officer, from the CSR Division of Basic and Integrative Biological Sciences, as a subject matter expert for this session.

Guest: Dr. Jessica Smith

• Basics of NIH and NIGMS, including structure, mission, and funding opportunities
  

• The importance of typical pieces of NIH applications such as biosketch, other support, foreign component, vertebrate animal section, notice of award, etc.
  

• Discussion will center on NIGMS Technology Development R21 NOFO and feature Q&A about NOFOs for 3 technology development stages?. Please consider familiarizing yourself with the NIGMS Technology Development Programs (R21 and R01) webinar and FAQs.
  Guests: Dr. Kadir Aslan and Dr. Alvin Yeh
  

• Academic Research Enhancement Award (R15) basics. Learn more here: https://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/mechanisms/Pages/AREA.aspx
  Guests: Dr. Charles Ansong and Dr. Anne Gershenson
  

• The Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs), featuring references to currently available materials and FAQs.

• The importance of typical pieces of NIH applications such as biosketch, other support, foreign component, vertebrate animal section, notice of award, etc. (Continuation from Part I).

• - Discussion will center on topics related to referral and peer review at the Center for Scientific Review (CSR). We welcome Dr. Smith, Scientific Review Officer, from the CSR Division of Basic and Integrative Biological Sciences, as a subject matter expert for this session.

• Key components of RPPRs and common pitfalls. We will reference information found in the NIH RPPR Instruction guide found on the Grants & Funding page dedicated to RPPRs.