This is a six-week summer workshop aimed at introducing grant writing. At the end of course, fellows will have a developed and peer-reviewed career development award application. The workshop will be conducted on-line and will have a combination of live and recorded video lectures in addition to live small group workshop sessions. The timeline of the course is oriented to facilitate ASCO YIA applications due in the fall.

Course Objectives:

• Describe the elements of successful grant writing including: using clear and concise prose, engaging reviewers, highlighting your specific aims, crafting a clear analysis plan, and how the peer review process influences successful or unsuccessful applications
• Apply successful grant writing best practices (as described above) to your grant application
• Develop your grant ideas using faculty and peer feedback

This workshop meets once a month for about 2 hours, between October and March, to review the "score-driving" sections of F grant applications, create drafts, and receive reviews. At the end, participants will receive a review of their complete draft from a faculty member. Applications are now closed.

Sessions will cover the following:

• Course Introduction/Orientation
• Intro to the F Grant Mechanism & Applicant's Background and Goals for Training
• Specific Aims
• Research Strategy
• "Office Hours" with the Office of Sponsored Research
• Institutional Environment and Commitment to Training & Rational for Selecting Sponsor and Institution
• Biosketch

Participant Requirements:

• You have chosen your research mentor
• Your mentor agrees to review 1 complete grant draft for one of your fellow participants (review occurs in March)
• Your mentor provides a letter/email approving your participation, agreeing to review your drafts, and agreeing to review 1 complete draft for one of your fellow participants
• Agree to attend lectures and provide peer review for your fellow participants

Email Jennifer Seuferer for questions. 

Click here for more information on the CARE Program.

For Faculty:

• Department of Medicine PRE-Proposal Application REview (PREPARE) - Grant review for faculty
• HDFCCC Grant Writing Support for Cancer Center Members
• CTSI K grant writing workshop https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/k-grant-writing-workshop

• Investigators Planning to Submit a Program Project Grant (P01) (DCCPS Guidance)

For Trainees:

• HDFCCC F Grant Writing Workshop. Email Jennifer Seuferer for more information. 
• Office postdoc scholars https://postdocs.ucsf.edu/fund-your-research
• TICR classes
  • Grant Writing Workshop on Mentored Career Development Awards
  • Grant Writing Workshop
• CTSI K grant writing workshop https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/k-grant-writing-workshop
• CTSI grant writing consultation https://consult.ucsf.edu/consult/recharge
• Office of Career and Professional Development https://career.ucsf.edu/phds/grant-writing

F Grant Library

K Grant Proposal Library

T32 Proposal Library

Diversity Supplement Proposal Library

PCORI Grant Proposal Library

OCPD F and K Grant Proposal Library

Facilities and Resources

Letters of Support

Resources and Data Sharing

Human Subjects

Other Proposal Sections

Templates for the Responsible Conduct of Research, Methods in Enhancing Reproducibility and a descriptions of the training available to cancer center trainees. Email [email protected] if you would like to use one.

RDO's Training Tracking Program

CTSI T32 Grant Writing Resources

T32 Grant Proposal Library (log in to MyAccess)