S5E5: Securing Funding for Research

In the fifth Season of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke’s Building Up the Nerve podcast, we help you strengthen your science communication skills with tools and advice to use throughout your career. We know that navigating your career can be daunting, but we're here to help—it's our job!

In the fifth episode of the season, we talk about Securing Funding for Research focusing on choosing what funding to apply for, “pitching” your science to different funders, and writing effective grant applications.

Featuring Sonya Dumanis, PhD, Executive Vice President of the Coalition for Aligning Science and Deputy Director for Aligning Science Across Parkinson's; Kat M. Steele, PhD, Associate Director of CREATE and Albert Kobayashi Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Washington; and Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at University of California, San Diego and Chief Scientific Advisor, Sanford Laboratories for Innovative Medicine.

Resources

• NIH Funding Opportunities
  • Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants: https://seed.nih.gov/small-business-funding/small-business-program-basics/understanding-sbir-sttr 
  • NINDS Funding Opportunities: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/find-funding-opportunities 
  • NINDS Training & Career Development Opportunities: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/training-career-development 
• NIH Resources
  • Early Career Reviewer program: https://public.csr.nih.gov/ForReviewers/BecomeAReviewer/ECR 
  • NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/ 
  • Early Stage Investigator (ESI) Policies: https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/early-stage-investigators 
  • NINDS Guidelines for incorporating rigor into grant applications: https://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/preparing-your-application/preparing-research-plan/rigorous-study-design-and-transparent-reporting 
  • NIH Activity Codes: https://grants.nih.gov/funding/activity-codes 
• Allen Institute’s Allen Distinguished Investigators: https://alleninstitute.org/division/frontiers-group/distinguished-investigators/ 
• Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H): https://arpa-h.gov/ 
• Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) Disease – Collaborative Research Network (CRN): https://parkinsonsroadmap.org/research-network/# 
• California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) grants: https://www.cirm.ca.gov/ 

Transcript available at http://ninds.buzzsprout.com/.