Consultation
Research Development
The “FRONT DOOR” to Pre-award Services at MICHR
The Research Development Core (RDC) provides no-cost services and consultation to assist investigators in designing, writing, and submitting external grant proposals. Our mission is to rapidly and efficiently translate good ideas into funded science at the University of Michigan. The RDC has both faculty and administrative leadership dedicated to accomplish this.
Services provided include linking investigators with funding sources, collaborators, and research services; guidance with study design and scientific review; advice for second round submissions; administrative and regulatory support; and budgeting.
Over the past three years faculty and staff of the MICHR Research Development Core have assisted nearly a hundred faculty and trainees to obtain over $48 million in funding. Federal grant submissions that receive RDC services have met with a 40% success rate - nearly twice the overall federal rate.
How it Works
When an investigator calls MICHR seeking guidance, typically we invite him or her to meet with our team for an hour (including those with backgrounds in project planning, biostatistics, grants administration and budgeting, human subjects, and regulatory issues as well as the NIH scientific review process) so that we can learn more about the proposed research. These meetings are intended to provide investigators with supportive advice and consultation about a proposal or research idea. We meet as a group to "workshop" the proposal, often inviting experts in relevant CTSA program areas to contribute. Meeting with MICHR introduces an investigator to the breadth of consultation, services, and resources available through MICHR and the CTSA. Alternatively our experienced staff can connect an investigator with MICHR services or CTSA faculty experts directly.
- Matching ideas with funding sources (funding finder service)
- Identifying relevant collaborators
- Study design
- Identifying relevant research services and resources
- Generating letters of support when relevant
- Assistance developing career plans for K and other grants
- Scientific critique of protocols prior to submission
- Review and advice for proposal resubmissions
- Consultation on regulatory matters affecting proposal development
- Application accounting/budgetary services
Contact:
Amy Harms
Research Development Core Manager
wadeamy@umich.edu
David A. Williams, PhD
Research Development Core Director
daveawms@umich.edu
Website: http://www.med.umich.edu/painresearch/staff/williams.htm
For more information about the MICHR Research Development Core, please call (734) 998-7474 or email um-michr@umich.edu
