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.

nih academy mentors

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.

 

NIH ACADEMY COHORTS

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)


2024-2025 PARTICIPANTS
  • 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
Program overview, planning for success & long term goals

• 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

 NIH ACADEMY SPONSORS

University of DelawareACCELDE INBRE

 

CONTACT

Jenn Roth
Research for Development
204 Hulihen Hall, Newark DE 19716
Phone: 302-831-4717
Email: Jenn Roth

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