Sponsored Programming

Time: 9:00am to 12:30pm

Content level: Advanced

Research Administration is a fairly recent acknowledged profession. At the core of every research enterprise is an organizational infrastructure that supports researchers in their endeavors to change the world by exploring new and novel ways to address today’s societal challenges. This workshop highlights the various ways to set up an efficient organization.

Learning objectives:

1. Analyze the various administrative functions in a successful strategic continuum.
2. Recognize the impact of developing a strategic continuum approach to organizational structure.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Denise Clark, Associate Vice President for Research, University of Maryland; Ann Holmes, Assistant Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland

Time: 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

This is a required workshop for the new certificate in Research Development, intended for individuals with three years or fewer in research administration or more experienced research administrators transitioning to roles in research development. Research development provides strategic, proactive, catalytic, and capacity-building activities that serve the research enterprise at large by supporting individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding, fostering relationships, and developing and implementing strategies that increase institutional competitiveness and innovation.

To give a big and broad picture of research development, topics will include the role of the research development professional, how research development complements and differs from research administration, developing individual and institutional grant capacity, understanding and applying institutional strategies to enhance the overall research portfolio, orienting investigators to the research environment and research development, an overview of proposal components and the agency review process and providing leadership and support for large-scale, collaborative proposals.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the approach and components of research development for the institution.
2. Apply these strategies in the participant's home institution to increase grant capacity and proposal success.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Marjorie Piechowski, PhD, Emerita Director of Research Support, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A collection of great CSS tools and resources can be found at html-css-js.com: code beautifier, cheat sheet, style generators, useful links and more.

Time:  9:30am to 10:45am

Content level: Intermediate

The increased complexity and changing nature of research administration led us to evaluate the models we use institutionally to provide services to faculty. This session will look at Yale’s approach to regionalizing research administration services for academic and non-academic departments. Our organization, Faculty Research Management Services, seeks to raise the level of service to Principal Investigators while increasing compliance and mitigating risk. During this session we will discuss how the current model was designed and implemented on our campus, provide the challenges and successes during the transition, and provide an opportunity to have a discussion about all aspects of this model.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the types of services that can be offered and how to successfully brand.
2. Understand the benefits, challenges and successes in implementing a shared service.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Joanne Bentley, MBA, Senior Director, Yale University

Date and Time: Monday, April 29, 2019 - 11:00am to 12:15pm

Content level: Basic

This session will compare and describe the general organization of universities with Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers, discuss various differences the structure provides, present what is needed for the VA in order to make working with the VA smoother. This will be an interactive presentation.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe how the VA is organized.
2. Identify the contact people within the VA.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Rene Hearns, MPA, CRA, Assistant Director 'IIRECC'/Study Coordinator/Budget Analyst, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Time: 2:15pm to 3:30pm

Content level: Intermediate

This presentation will identify key issues impacting university-industry collaborations and how to develop an agreement that works for all stakeholders at both parties.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the key issues impacting university-industry collaborations.
2. Discover how to develop an agreement that works for all stakeholders at both parties.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Carlos Braxton, Associate Director, Office of Research Administration; Stephen Fisher, Associate Director, Research Administration, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Time: 3:45pm to 5:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

As the complexity of today's most pressing research requires collaboration and team science, grant proposals have become more complex to plan and coordinate. This session will present strategies to manage the proposal process and help investigators prepare competitive large-scale, collaborative grant proposals, which differ in many ways from individual research grants. The speaker will describe typical proposal components, provide examples of complex, large-scale proposals from many funding agencies, and consider the organizational challenges of these proposals. Other topics will include advice on organizing research teams, assigning responsibilities for developing the proposal narrative and budget, reviewing and editing proposal narratives, and submitting the final proposal package. Audience participation and questions are highly encouraged.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe challenges and list strategies that will enhance the development of complex, large-scale, multi-disciplinary grant proposals.
2. Define interdisciplinary research, team science and collaboration and understand the increased emphasis on team science and collaboration in grant programs.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Marjorie Piechowski, PhD, Emerita Director of Research Support, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Browse Ruwix, the portal dedicated to online puzzle programs and tutorials.

Time:  3:45pm to 5:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

Since 2000, deaths from heart disease have decreased by 14%, while deaths from Alzheimer’s Disease have increased by 89%. (alz.org) In 2016, caregivers provided an estimated 18.2 Billion hours, valued at over $230 Billion, providing care to people living with Alzheimer’s Disease. (alz.org) Due to the rapid increase of people living with the disease, the nation has made the goal of curing Alzheimer’s Disease by 2025. In a show of bi-partisan support; substantial resources have been made available, over $800 Million. To achieve this goal, many areas of science that were previously unrecognized or underutilized will be vital in contributing to the mission of NIH. NIH is working to partner with institutions and organizations from a broad spectrum of science and technology, to make significant impacts and advancements toward this objective. This presentation will focus on the current and future global impacts of the disease, funding to accomplish this National priority and how your institution or organization can contribute.

Learning objectives:

1. Understanding research opportunities and how they are awarded, within the NIH and the NIA.
2. How to increase your organizations Success Rate? With the recent talks of a Government Shutdown, what does that mean for a biomedical research organization that runs a 24X7 operation?

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Patrick Shirdon, B.A. Economics and Finance, M.S. in Business Management, Director of Management for the National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Aging

Time: 9:15am to 10:30am

Content level: Intermediate

The process of submitting a proposal is challenging due to the amount of information that has to be gathered and reviewed before the submission can occur. Understanding the sponsor’s requirements, adhering to sponsor and institutional guidelines while keeping the principal investigator on track to meet the sponsor’s due date can be like a circus act. This workshop will help you get through common and not‐so‐common proposal development obstacles and develop skills so you can expertly guide the process. We will cover proposal submission from beginning to end, including the proposal solicitation, regulatory requirements, budget development, justification for funding, scope of work, working with PIs and everything else you need to get the proposal out the door.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the key components of successful proposal development and submission.
2. Provide information on how to develop skills to effectively communicate and collaborate with faculty during the proposal process.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Tolise Dailey, CRA, Training Manager, Johns Hopkins University The Rubik's Cube is still a very popular puzzle toy. The fact is that it's even more popular than in the 80's.

Time: 10:45am to 12:00pm

Content level: Basic

In this session, we’ll describe the review process to submit a proposal from initiating PI meeting through portal submission. You’ll receive FAQs, resources, and best practices to put on track for a successful submission!

Learning objectives:

1. List RFA/PA requirements and how to prepare for initial proposal meeting.
2. Identify tips and tools for effective time management.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Hilah Zia, (MPA) Master of Public Administration, Research Business Manager, Children's National Medical System

Time: 1:45pm to 3:00pm

Content level: Basic

This session will cover new developments at the National Science Foundation (NSF) - programs, policies, people and budgets. Senior NSF staff will provide a comprehensive review of what is new and developing at NSF.

Learning objectives:

1. Learn about the NSF Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 and 2018 budgets and administration priorities for NSF programs.
2. Understand how NSF has implemented recent changes to proposal and award policies and procedures.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Samantha Brewton Hunter, Senior Policy Specialist, Policy Office, National Science Foundation

Time: 9:15am to 10:30am

Content level: Basic

Personnel costs on a grant make project management complex, both during proposal development and post award grant management. Budgeting during proposal development involves many nuances and there can be lots of moving pieces to consider during post award management. Budget execution has its own complexities. This workshop will discuss pre- and post-award methods, complexities, and management, and will include both lecture and hands-on budget development scenarios for various funders.

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the many facets of personnel budget development.
2. Identify various personnel considerations when executing the award.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Rene Hearns, MPA, CRA, Assistant Director-‘IIRECC’/Study Coordinator/Budget Analyst, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Kate McCormick, CRA, Senior Grants Administrator, Suffolk University

Time: 10:45am to 12:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

Kirschstein grants are a large part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) $37 billion dollar (FY2018) grant portfolio. These grants are primarily geared toward supporting U.S. citizens and legal residents studying and working at U.S. domestic institutions. A smaller set of these awards are available to support foreign born academics at U.S. institutions and domestic scientists training and working overseas. The NIH divides the awards into four categories - training, fellowships, career development and other training related. Kirschstein grants provide institutional support for all career stages from undergraduate students to independent researchers preparing to compete for R01s. The purpose of the presentation is to provide a concise summary of the available Kirschstein grants by the intended recipients with a special emphasis on the institutional financial & personnel commitment required to compete for and support these programs.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify the Kirschstein grants that best suit your organizations available human and institutional resources.
2. Analyze your current professional development program and determine if Kirschstein grants would augment or complement it.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Beverly Savage BS, CRA, Research Grants Administrator; Michael Zoffel, BS, CRA, Research Grants Administrator, University of Pittsburgh The free CSS minimizer will compress the style files for your websites in seconds and it does not require download and installation.

Time: 10:45am to 12:00pm

Content level: Intermediate

We are so focused on large extramural grants, that we often overlook the other sources of research funding, including: philanthropy, foundation grants, research contracts and internal grants. This workshop follows the principal of diversifying your portfolio and looks at these other sources of research funding and the nuances of these opportunities. Participants will take closer looks at these other sources of funding and learn how the better position their institution to not put all their proverbial eggs in one basket. We’ll cover finding the funding, applying for, and managing these different pots of gold. We’ll also cover a variety of different internal funding mechanisms that could be started at your institution; if you don’t already have them.

Learning objectives:

1. Learn the unique aspects of funding from non-traditional sources.
2. How to seek, find and apply for research funding from sources other than large extramural grants.

Prerequisites: None

Speaker(s): Kevin Titus, MBA, Business Director, Cincinnati Children's Hospital