Grants360° Invitation | High-Risk High-Reward Mechanism 3/29

Dear Colleagues,

As part of the research@BSPH Ecosystem initiative, we’ve initiated Grants360° – a series of sessions, panels and workshops to enhance our research community’s pursuit of grant funding. We have launched a series of sessions devoted to exploring funding mechanisms for which there is notably less awareness than traditional R01 and other types of grants. Our premise is that by hearing how individuals have successfully developed a proposal for a specific funding mechanism, others can learn and leverage this experience to the benefit of the broader community.

We are hosting a panel of High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program awardees and invite you to participate in the discussion. These funding mechanisms were originally created by NIH with the Director’s Pioneer Award, to stimulate and support highly innovative ideas in contrast to incremental research objectives. In general, these applications involve presenting your creative ideas without specific aims. In support of flexibility to pursue evolving ideas, detailed budgets are not required and the funds may be provided in a lump sum in the first year of the award. If these opportunities fit your career stage and interests, please join us and learn from those who've already been successful in obtaining this funding! Our panel of awardees will share their experiences in navigating the program proposal process, the unique aspects of this funding mechanism and how this award impacted their research and career.

This session will be held on Wednesday, March 29 from 10-11am on Zoom. You can join through this link. All sessions are recorded and uploaded to our Grants360° wiki page. For questions, please reach out to us at BSPH.research@jhu.edu.

Best,

Greg