Overview The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC-H) New Investigator Development Program was established to help junior faculty members (1) refine their skills for developing competitive grant applications and (2) succeed in securing external funds to establish independent research programs. The Program is led by the New Investigator Development Program Team and sponsored by the Office of Research, and it features an intensive eight month Grants 102 workshop. Participants in the workshop attend seminars on grant development and peer review, and develop a grant application that is reviewed/revised in a multi stage process and ready to submit for external funding when the workshop ends. (Program information is available online at http://research.uth.tmc.edu/nidp/.)
Target Audience/Eligibility Requirements The NIDP Team will select up to twenty participants per year and is open to all full-time UTHSC-H faculty members.
Program Format The Program workshops follow the classic steps involved in writing a grant where a proposal is planned, written, reviewed and revised in a step-wise fashion. Each participant is expected to write a grant proposal during the Program that will be reviewed and revised by the participant's mentor, chosen by the participant at the beginning of the program. The Program extends from October through May, and a Program schedule is available online.
