Clinical Grantsmanship workshop 15 December

Assoc Prof Arul Earnest

15 December 2015: 8.30am-15.30pm, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation. Monash Medical Centre. Level 1, 43-51 Kanooka Grove, Clayton

This inaugural Clinical Grantsmanship workshop will help researchers improve the chance of success in their grant application by providing relevant talks, pre-review and methodological and biostatistical input for selected proposals. This consists of a series of talks in the morning on important aspects of a successful grant application, including getting the research question right, writing accurate description of the statistical analysis plan and avoiding the pitfalls of a poor grant application. The morning session is open to any interested researcher. Morning tea will be provided.

In the afternoon, three projects (pre-selected from a call for abstract) will be paired with a biostatistician/clinician team, who will then refine the grant proposal together with the researchers. The afternoon session is only applicable for researchers who intend to submit an application for the upcoming NHMRC grant call, and who currently have a draft proposal ready. Projects which are only at the early development stage will not benefit from this workshop and cannot be considered. This workshop is also targeted at clinical research based projects (and not laboratory based projects). To be considered for the afternoon session, you need to submit a 2 page summary (1 page on aims & hypothesis, significance and summary, and another page on CIA track record).  The CIA will need to confirm attendance at the workshop, and agree to include the biostatistician as CI/AI in the grant application if substantial input is provided.

For catering purposes, please RSVP to Maree.powell@monash.edu

Program

Morning
	Presenter	Timing
Introduction	Prof’s Helena Teede and Eric Morand	8.30-8.50
Developing a successful clinical grant application	Professor Sophia Zoungas	8.50-9.10
Top 10 reasons for a grant rejection	Dr Maree Powell	9.10-9.30
Getting the research question right. Aims and Hypothesis	A/Professor Arul Earnest	9.30- 9.50
Tea Break		10.00-10.30
Budgeting- Research office	Ms Tessa Jones*	10.30-10.50
Writing the statistical section of a grant proposal	Mr Sanjeeva Ranasinha	10.50-11.10
Common mistakes in presenting pilot data	Mr Eldho Paul	11.10-11.30
Track record	Prof  Helena Teede	11.30-11.50
Lunch Break		12.00-13.00
Biostatisticians and clinical experts refining specific grant proposals with PI (open to 3 project groups, preselected from abstracts submitted)		13.00-15.30

*MRO Research Development Officer

In order to be considered for the afternoon proposal refinement session, please send your 2-page summary to Associate Professor Arul Earnest at   arul.earnest@monash.edu