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  • 1p-CQM Seminar: NIH Regional Seminars

    Presenter:    Paola Vera-Licona, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Center for Quantitative Medicine

    Title:            “An Overview on the 2017 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration”

    Objectives:  Are you a new or junior investigator? Do you assist in the preparation of the scientific portions of an application? If you answered “yes” to either question and you have never attended any NIH Regional Seminar, this seminar might be useful to you. I’ll give an overview of the contents of this 3-day event that I attended as new investigator. Also, I will share all the slides of all the presentations given by NIH staff for those interested. These slides cover diverse topics such as:

    - Budget Basics for Administrators and Investigators

    - Career Development Awards

    - Clinical Trials

    - Compliance (Case Studies)

    - Current Issues at NIH

    - Diversity in the Extramural Research Workplace

    - electronic Research Administration (eRA)

    - Financial Conflict of Interest

    - Fundamentals of the NIH Grants Process

    - Grant Writing for Success

    - Human Research Protections

    - Loan Repayment Program

    - Intellectual Property, Inventions, and Patents

    - Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)

    - Peer Review Process

    - Preventing & Detecting Fraud

    - Public Access

    - SciENcv

    - R&D Contracts

    - Research Integrity

    - Rigor & Reproducibility

    - Training/Fellowships

     - SBIR/STTR Program

    Time:        1 o'clock this afternoon

    Location:  195 Farmington Avenue, 3rd Floor Conference Room U3071 A/B

    For more information, contact: Jane Tran Sills/Center for Quantitative Medicine at 860-679-4799/transills@uchc.edu