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- What: Panels are here to help you brainstorm ideas, generate research questions, meet possible collaborators, fine-tune study design and sharpen your proposals. Whether you want a multi-disciplinary panel for your proposal or a quick, more tailored group, we assemble whatever expertise is needed to work with you to strengthen your project. Meet with a team of scientific experts who have perused your application as a first level of peer review.
- Why: Investigators who participate in a CCTS panel experience a success rate that beats the NIH payline by 3-fold.
- Who: Faculty, Graduate & Postgraduate
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- What: Free one-on-one consultations with a multidisciplinary team of expert biostatisticians, epidemiologists, and methodologists to enhance federal research proposals, including NIH (R01, R21, K, etc.), NSF, and DOD, as well as non-governmental funding opportunities. Our team also offers assistance with manuscript development, including data analysis, graph development, and results interpretation.
- Who: Investigators at any stage, from student to senior faculty
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- What is Kaizen? An app-based, educational gaming platform. Developed as an innovative quiz game, the aim is to provide a fun and flexible way to learn new competencies and test retention.
- What is Kaizen-R2T? The CCTS currently runs a bi-monthly game on the Kaizen platform to enable investigators to complete the NIH requirement for formal insttruction in rigor, responsibility, and transparency.
- Who should play? All T, K, and F awardees are encouraged to play, but it is open to all investigators across the CCTS Partner Network, and around the country.
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- What: A replication of an NIH study section where participants serve as reviewers and conduct a mock review of the “before” version of a real-world K or R application that received funding after a CCTS panel review and resubmission.
- Why: Participants are able to learn how a study section operates from the perspective of those who serve on study sections to better prepare their own grants for review.
- Who: Faculty, Graduate & Postgraduate
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- What: GRIT, a collaboration between the CCTS and COERE, offers scholars 4-6 months of highly structured weekly activities focused on specific steps in the grant application process.
- Why: From NIH Specific Aims and Biosketches to training and budget plans, the GRIT cohort program provides invaluable guidance and can help participants meet submission deadlines.
- Who: Early-stage investigators, trainees, and postdoctoral trainees who are applying for their first extramural Career Development Award ((e.g., K01, K23, K08, K99/R00 etc.) or aiming to develop their first independent R-level grant (e.g., R01, R34, R31 etc.)