Virtual

Revisions to the Fellowship Application and Review Process

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Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 2:00PM ET - 3:00PM ET
Location: Virtual
Cost: Free
This Event is Recorded: The recording and resources will be available 7-10 business days after the event
Hosted by: Office of Extramural Research (OER)
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Event Overview:

Description:

The NIH fellowship application and review criteria are undergoing changes that take effect for due dates on or after January 25, 2025. These involve restructuring the review criteria used to arrive at an overall impact score, as well as modifications to sections of the PHS Fellowship Supplemental Form, candidate biosketch, and referee letter instructions.

The goal for these changes is to:


  • Better focus reviewer attention on three key assessments: the fellowship candidate’s preparedness and potential, research training plan, and commitment to the candidate;
  • Ensure a broad range of candidates and research training contexts can be recognized as meritorious by clarifying and simplifying the language in the application and review criteria; and
  • Reduce bias in review by emphasizing the commitment to the candidate without undue consideration of the sponsor and institutional reputation.

Wondering about the implications for your application? Consider participating in this live, virtual event where NIH experts will provide essential insights and updates on these changes, concluding with a live Q&A session.

Audience:

The NIH fellowship program provides individual training opportunities to support fellows at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral, and senior career levels. This webinar would be valuable for candidates, sponsors, research program administrators, and grant writers.

Event Resources

Agenda

Introduction
 
Overview of Changes
 
Live Q&A with NIH Policy Experts
 

Presenter(s):

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Ericka Boone, Ph.D
Director
Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (DBRW)
Office of the Director (OD)
NIH, HHS
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Ericka Boone
<p>Ericka Boone, Ph.D. is the Director for the Division of Biomedical Research Workforce (DBRW) within the NIH Office of Extramural Research (OER). She recently served as the Director of the NIH Division of Loan Repayment. In that role, Dr. Boone was responsible for administering and providing leadership for the NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) as well as representing NIH on matters related to the operations, policy development and evaluation of the LRP. Previous to this position, Dr. Boone served as a Health Scientist Administrator in the Office of Science Policy and Communications at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There she developed and targeted science-based publications, outreach initiatives and other activities to educate a variety of audiences about the science of drug use, abuse and addiction. For her role in these efforts, Dr. Boone has won several NIDA Director’s Awards of Merit and an NIH Director’s Award. Prior to coming to NIH, Dr. Boone conducted research at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Emory University. Dr. Boone’s academic background includes a B.A. in Biology from Talladega College and a Ph.D. in Biobehavioral Health from The Pennsylvania State University.</p>
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Alison Gammie, Ph.D
Director, Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity (DTWD)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), HHS
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Alison Gammie
<p>Alison Gammie, Ph.D., is director of the Division of Training, Workforce Development, and Diversity, which supports the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' (NIGMS) research training, career development and diversity-building activities. Prior to coming to NIGMS, she was a Senior Lecturer at Princeton University, where, in addition to teaching, mentoring and running a research laboratory, she served as an academic advisor, an Associate Member at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, and the Director of Diversity Programs &amp; Graduate Recruiting. Honors include Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Graduate Mentoring Award and the American Society for Microbiology Hinton Award for advancing the research careers of under-represented minorities.</p>
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Bruce Reed, Ph.D
Deputy Director, Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), HHS
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Bruce Reed
<p>Dr. Bruce Reed is CSR’s Deputy Director. In close collaboration with the Director, he works to optimize peer review at the NIH. At CSR he has led multiple initiatives to develop new review practices and policies and plays a major role with respect to agency planning, communications, training resources, and CSR’s data analytic efforts. Dr. Reed came to NIH from the University of California, Davis, where he was a professor of Neurology and Associate Director of its NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center. He came to NIH in 2015 as the Director of CSR’s Division of Neuroscience, Development, and Aging.</p><p>Dr. Reed earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At UC Davis he conducted longitudinal studies of aging in demographically diverse populations aimed at better understanding the factors that accelerate or protect against cognitive decline in old age. He also practiced for over 20 years as a neuropsychologist, providing patient care and teaching at the Northern California Veteran’s Administration Health Care System.</p>

Moderator(s):

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Lystranne Maynard-Smith, Ph.D
Scientific Review Officer (SRO) and Reviewer Training Coordinator
Center for Scientific Review (CSR)
National Institutes of Health (NIH), HHS
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Lystranne Maynard-Smith
<p>Lystranne Maynard-Smith, Ph. D is a Scientific Review Officer (SRO) and Reviewer Training Coordinator within the Center for Scientific Review (CSR). She currently manages the Advancing Therapeutics B study section and develops and coordinates targeted training resources and learning activities for scientific peer review. Dr. Lystranne Maynard-Smith obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Howard University and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University with a focus on development of a chemical biology approach to control protein stability. She then pursued her postdoctoral training in the Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) with an emphasis on developing probes of lysine acetylation in cells. Before joining CSR, Dr. Maynard-Smith was an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Howard University where her research interests explored developing novel reporters of calreticulin acetylation substrates.</p>

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