Grantsmanship Series: Navigating NIH Grant Opportunities | May 23 @ 10am

Dear Colleagues,

As part of the research@BSPH Ecosystem initiative, we are introducing a Grantsmanship Series that falls under our Grants360° strategy – a series of sessions, panels and workshops to enhance our research community’s pursuit of grant funding.

We will be hosting experienced grant writers to illuminate the key steps in effective grant writing and invite you to learn from our experts. A well-written grant proposal that clearly articulates your project's goals, objectives, methods, outcomes, and aligns with the funding organization's priorities and criteria, is more likely to be awarded funding. However, an important first step in grant success is understanding how to navigate the system and how to target your ideas to receptive reviewers. 

We are launching this series focused on Navigating NIH Grant Opportunities, and I will be leading this initial session. My research career has very much focused on NIH grants, having been continuously funded for 18 years and PI on grants from 5 NIH institutes with funding approaching $75 million USD. In this session, we will review available resources to identify NIH funding opportunities, compare success rates, evaluate and target reviewer panels, know what comparable projects have received funding, and strategize for maximizing your likelihood of success.   

If you would like to learn more about NIH opportunities, please join us on Tuesday, May 23 from 10-11am on Zoom through this link.  We especially encourage early-stage investigators and those new to NIH funding to attend. If participants have a draft specific aims page, they would be willing to share, we will use a few illustrative examples to walk through this process. Feel free to send your example to BSPH.research@jhu.edu, prior to the workshop or reach out to us at that email for any additional questions. All sessions are recorded and uploaded to our Grants360° wiki page.

 Best, Greg

Gregory D. Kirk, MD, PhD ’03, MPH ’95 

Vice Dean for Research 

Professor of Epidemiology, Medicine & Oncology

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health