Grant Writing Suite: K99 and Specific Aims

*You can register for both workshops separately*

The NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) helps outstanding postdoctoral researchers complete needed mentored training and transition in a timely manner to independent, tenure-track or equivalent faculty positions.

Eligibility for K99/R00: U.S. citizen or non-citizen, with research or clinical doctoral degree, and no more than 4 years of Postdoc experience.

The Specific Aims page is essentially the one-page "sales pitch" for your grant and a key part of any grant being submitted to the NIH and elsewhere. 

Agenda: 

Monday, July 21

3:00 PM - Introduction to the K99/R00 Award

5:00 PM - Mock K99/R00 Study Section 

Tuesday, July 22

9:00AM-12:00PM Specific Aims Workshop

Workshop Facilitators:

• Joan M. Lakoski, PhD Director of Proposal Development, West Virginia Clinical & Translational Science Institute
• Robert J. Milner, PhD Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Mock Reviewers: 

Moriah E. Thomason, PhD (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Population Health)

Robert C. Froemke, PhD (Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery)

Iannis Aifantis, PhD (Pathology)