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ASNR 2005 Grant Writing Seminar

Monday, May 23 - 8:00am - 12 Noon
Tuesday, May 24 - 8:00am - 12 Noon

The ASNR 2005 Grant Writing Seminar is offered FREE of charge but interested individuals must submit a completed application form to ASNR. Enrollment is limited to 25 participants.

This seminar received rave reviews at last year's meeting and will fill up quickly.

Seminar Description: Practical Tips on Getting Your Grant Funded, a two-part seminar on grant writing, will be presented by Janet S. Rasey, Ph.D., Director of the Research Funding Service at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and a retired Professor of Radiation Oncology. The workshop, presented over 2 days (4 hr/day), will focus on three major areas in the grant writing process, Before You Write, Writing the Grant, and The Review Process. Topics covered will include the elements of writing a competitive research grant with an emphasis on NIH R01 proposals and an explanation of grant review procedures and psychology.

Target Audience: This seminar is specifically designed for young investigators with an interest in writing funded research proposals.

About the Presenter: Janet S. Rasey, Ph.D. is the Director of the Research Funding Service at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and a retired Professor of Radiation Oncology. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan (B.S. in Zoology), Oregon State University (M.S. in Radiological Health) and the University of Oregon (Ph.D. in Biology). Her principle research interests include cancer imaging, radiation biology, and the role of tumor hypoxia in cancer therapy and tumor progression. These research programs have been supported by grants from the NIH, including a MERIT Award (1990-98), and business concerns. In 1989 Dr. Rasey founded the Research Funding Service at UW, which she continues to direct. This service helps investigators in the Health Sciences schools (Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Public Health, Pharmacy, and Social Work) find sources of research funds, understand the art of grantsmanship, and learn to write effective grants. Dr. Rasey has been an invited speaker at universities, national scientific meetings, and the NIH on grantsmanship, grant writing and grant review.

Content Outline:

1. Before You Write
   • Know the grant makers: who they are, what their priorities are
   • Know your colleagues: how they can review drafts of your proposals and help identify grant reviewers and grant makers
   • Know yourself: "big picture" and fundable subunits of your research; what you do well, what you need help with in your area of research; your time management style
   • NO substitute for a good idea

2. Writing the Grant
   • Combining a good idea + effective communication
   • Thinking like a scientist
   • Learning to focus your writing
   • Using reviewers appropriately
   • Understanding the differences between a grant and a research paper
   • Critiquing parts of a research grant (Abstract, specific aims, background/significance, preliminary data/progress report; research design/methods, using selected examples from successful NIH grants)

3. The Review Process
   Part A - Abilities and Skills Reviewers Look For
   • Generating good ideas
   • Thinking like a scientist
   • Focusing your writing
   • Having expertise in appropriate techniques
   • Following the instructions
   • Writing the proposal as carefully as you will do the work.

   Part B - Questions Reviewers Ask and How to Answer Them in a Grant Proposal

   • Who are you? (Translation: Can you do the work?)
   • What are you going to do?
   • Why is it worth doing?
   • Why do YOU want to do it?
   • How are you going to do it?
   • Where will the work lead?
   • How much will it cost?

Seminar Application:

Enrollment is limited to 25 participants. While no fee is being charged for the seminar, those interested in attending must apply to ASNR. In general, the first 25 applicants will be accepted. In the event that a single institution appears to be over-represented, an attempt will be made to include applicants from other institutions. In addition, preference will be given to applicants who can attend both sessions. Accepted applicants must register for the ASNR meeting.

Click here to download the seminar application form.

Completed forms should be sent via email or fax to:

Barb Schell, CAE
Manager of Scientific Meetings
Email: bschell@asnr.org
Fax: 630-574-1740
Phone: 630-574-0220 ext 228

Questions:

Contact Barb Schell, Manager of Scientific Meetings at the above email address or phone number.