Research & Grant Resources

SciENcv Biosketch application »
SciENcv will help you assemble an online professional profile which can be used to generate an NIH biographical sketch.

Writing a Winning Application—Write To Excite»
NIH provides series of tips on creating a winning application by keeping its audience—your peer reviewers—in the forefront of your mind.

Peer Review Notes »
The NIH Center for Scientific Review publishes Peer Review Notes to inform reviewers, NIH staff and others interested in news related to our grant application review policies, procedures and plans.

The NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers is a trans-NIH effort to consider barriers for women in science and to develop innovative strategies to promote entry, recruitment, retention, and sustained advancement of women in biomedical and research careers.

NINDS’s Building Up the Nerve Podcast »
Applying for NIH funding can be daunting. NIH/NINDS provides a podcast for neuroscience trainees that takes you through the components of a grant application with successful awardees.

There are numerous grant writing classes, workshops, and reviews available at WashU. This Grant Writing and Review Matrix can help determine what might be right for you.

Resources for non-native English Speakers
Contact the English Language Program at Office for International Students and Scholars (OISS) on the Danforth Campus.

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research and Education: A Practical Guide Produced by the AAAS »

Health Literacy Communication Services »
Becker Medical Library offers a variety of services and resources to assist clinicians, investigators and students with making written materials easier to understand and to address the impact of literacy, culture and language in the health care setting.

NSF Grant Proposal Guide published by the National Science Foundation.

PCORI: What you need to know to apply »

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award is a career flexibility award that both rewards and accelerates progress in institutions that have created support structures in the form of policies, practices and resources to allow faculty to better integrate their work and home lives. The long-term objective is to increase faculty satisfaction and increase retention of physicians and investigators in academic medicine.

Edge for Scholars is an online community supported by Vanderbilt University, that is designed to provide candid conversations about life in academics. It covers a variety of topics including career planning and advice, communication skills, family and wellness, etc.

The WashU Foundations Relations staff assists in identifying and securing support from private foundations.  They work both proactively-bringing funding opportunities to the attention of schools and faculty-and reactively-responding to requests for assistance made by schools and faculty.

The WashU Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) helps ensure that ICTS investigators have access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure, financial support, and education, facilitates translational research, assists in the creation and sustaining of interdisciplinary research collaborations, and helps move research findings from the initial discovery phase into new diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention strategies to improve human health.

The WashU Medicine Department of Medicine Office of Faculty Development (OFD) sponsors and coordinates educational programs for faculty. Program topics include grant proposal and manuscript writing, professional communications, public speaking, negotiations, conflict resolutions, and others.

The WashU Medicine Department of Pediatrics Office of Faculty Development (OFD) was established to enhance faculty career development, assist with faculty recruitment and retention, and enhance faculty satisfaction and wellness. The OFD sponsors sponsors faculty seminars on topics related to work-life balance, negotiating the culture of academic medicine, and career development.

The WashU Medicine Office of Faculty Promotions & Career Development oversees faculty review and promotions and supports career development, mentoring, communication, and faculty policy changes.

The WashU Medicine Student Mistreatment Policy identifies the mechanisms and protocols for all School of Medicine students, including DBBS students on either campus or at partner institutions, to report mistreatment against them. It identifies mechanisms for bystanders to report student mistreatment they have observed. This document also outlines the systems in place aimed at monitoring, addressing, and preventing mistreatment of students in the learning environment.