NIH PROPOSAL ACADEMY
Welcome
The NIH Proposal Academy is a program designed to prepare participating faculty and researchers to become competitive and successful NIH grantees. Developed for new or early-career investigators, the program begins in January and includes an individually-assigned science mentor, provides general coaching, proposal preparation/grantsmanship skills, and grant editing and graphics assistance. The process takes participants from developing solid, specific aims to full proposal preparation. They receive feedback throughout the process from a variety of mentors and coaches who themselves are highly active NIH researchers. Prior to actual submission to NIH, each proposal is internally reviewed and scored mimicking the NIH review process.
Faculty mentors are paired with upcoming colleagues during this kickoff meeting.
Application Deadline is November 15, 2024
The Academy was created in 2018 and is jointly supported by funding from the UD Research Office, and DE-INBRE and DE-CTR ACCEL project grants. NIH Academy is open to faculty and researchers from UD, Nemours/Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children, Christiana Care Health System, and Delaware State University.
Applicants are accepted into the program via a competitive process and chosen on the basis of their scientific ideas and publication/research record. The intellectual agenda for each year’s Academy is set by co-chairs and therefore, participants’ experiences might differ from year-to-year as program leaders customize the outcomes, resources, and specific needs of the participants. Participants are expected to submit a proposal to the NIH shortly after completing the academy.
Faculty and researchers interested in becoming part of the NIH Academy for the current year must submit an application when the portal opens each year.
Contact UD Research Development Office if you have any questions.
The application deadline for the 2025 cohort has passed. Check back in Fall 2025 for the next application window.
- 2024-2025
- 2023-2024
- 2022-2023
- 2021-2022
- 2020-2021
- 2019-2020
- 2018-2019
2024-2025
2024-2025 NIH Academy Cohort
The 2024-2025 Academy is being chaired by Freda Patterson (Associate Dean, College of Health Sciences) and Jason Gleghorn (Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering)
- To be announced
2024-2025 Academy Timeline
November | Application Deadline and cohort chosen |
December | Participants meet 1:1 with NIH grant consultant |
January |
• Kick-off Group Meeting • Group meeting: Specific Aims |
February | • Group meeting: Significance & Innovation • Specific Aims due to the Academy |
March | • Group meeting: Establishing credibility as a beginning PI • Group meeting: Apporach |
April | • Feedback on Specific Aims • 1:1 consultations to discuss specific aims • Group meeting: Budgets, Human/Animal Subjects and Data Management |
May |
• Group meeting:NIH Review Process • Group meeting: Critiques & Resubmission |
June 2025-June 2026 | • Each participant has one year from the end of the academy to utilize grant editing/graphics hours and ad hoc draft proposal review |
2023-2024
2022-2023
2021-2022
2020-2021
2019-2020
2018-2019
CONTACT
Jenn Roth
Research for Development
204 Hulihen Hall, Newark DE 19716
Phone: 302-831-4717
Email: Jenn Roth
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