Applications for the Spring / Summer Cohort are due Friday, February 2 at 11:59pm. Please reach out to GrantMentorship@osumc.edu with any questions about the application process.

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Ohio State Grant Writing 101 Overview

The Ohio State R01-101 grant mentorship workshop series is modeled after the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), which is an NIH funded U project to enhance the number of underrepresented researchers applying to the NIH. The NRMN has many programs, including K-award writing workshops, symposia for graduate students interested in careers in the biomedical sciences, as well as a series of workshops for investigators applying for their first R01 grant.  The Ohio State program will be led by Dr. Loren Wold, a professor in the colleges of Nursing and Medicine and a trained coach with NRMN. Loren has been a co-lead in several programs with NRMN, including the STAR and P3 cohorts held at the University of Minnesota, the University of North Texas and California State University-Fullerton. In these programs, investigators from universities all across the USA were mentored by NIH-funded investigators.

This is an intense, accelerated 7-month program geared toward investigators that are actively working on a grant idea and collecting feasibility data. This is not for investigators who have an idea that they want to pursue, but do not have data to back up their hypothesis.  

Mentees

Who is eligible?      Preference is given to junior faculty who have not had a prior R01. The mentee MUST have sufficient pilot data that warrants an R01 level grant proposal and have the support of their direct supervisor. 

What are Mentee responsibilities?        The number of available spaces for the Ohio State Grant Writing course are limited. Thus, if the mentee commits, then he/she is responsible for attending all monthly sessions as outlined in the course syllabus and communicating on a routine basis with their assigned coach. 

Each section of the proposal will need to be submitted to the coach prior to the monthly meeting in order to obtain adequate feedback.

Each mentee is assigned as a peer reviewer for another mentee. Comments and feedback must be provided at each monthly meeting. 

The mentee is also responsible for finding an external mentor who will agree to participate in the mock study section that will be held in September 2024. This external mentor should be someone within the subject area of the proposal.

Coaches

Criteria for Coaches:        Preference is given to individuals who have had prior R01 funding and served as a reviewer on an NIH study section. 

Coach responsibilities:     The responsibilities of the coach revolve around providing adequate and timely feedback on each section of the proposal, and a commitment to attend at least 4 of the 6 monthly meetings of the symposium series. The most effective coaches are not ones who rewrite the grant, but who provide direction and background on what has worked for them in the past, and how this can be incorporated into the mentees’ proposal. The coach will also be required to attend the mock study section at the end of the program where they will function as reviewers.

Questions? Please reach out to GrantMentorship@osumc.edu.