Research Support Programs and Resources

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• Proposal development and grant writing with Janet Gross
• Data Analytics and Biostatistics (DAB) Core: Offers biostatistics, biomedical informatics, study design, analytics support and more
• Grant templates and examples
• Career Development Award (CDA) Initiative: For faculty and postdoctoral fellows who are pursuing or who have a CDA.
• Consult Program: Free one-hour consultations on grants, manuscripts, oral/poster presentations, and more.
• K-Club: Monthly lunch series sponsored in part by DOM for faculty and fellows who are pursuing or who have a CDA.
• What's Up Research Newsletter: Subscribe to a weekly newsletter with announcements, funding opportunities, seminars, and more.
• Emory Facilities and Resources Boilerplate Language Library
• DOM Research Administration Services (RAS) Unit: Pre- and post-award grants and contracts administration in the Department of Medicine.

• Blue Sky Groups: Bring investigators together to stimulate research interactions and identify potential areas of collaboration.
• Research Resources 101 Workshops: Monthly educational series designed to help researchers learn about a single valuable, and in some cases underutilized, research resource.
• Research Day: Annual DOM Research Day celebrates research efforts across the department.
• Health Services Research Day: Annual quality forum and networking opportunity for researchers to learn about ongoing quality, effectiveness, and value-based research activities within the Woodruff Health Sciences Center.
• FEED (Faculty Education, Enrichment and Development) Conference
• FAME (Fostering the Academic Mission in the Emory DOM) Workshops

• FAME Grant (Fostering the Academic Mission in the Emory DOM) Program: Designed to provide support for clinical faculty to dedicate up to 20% of their professional time to scholarly activity.
• Internal Funding Opportunities
• Additional Funding Databases
  • Grant Forward - one-stop-shop for grants searching. Free to use but initial access to the website must be from Emory network. From there, create a login to use anywhere. Have a feed sent to your email daily with new opportunities based on your preferred keywords! Learn how to best use GrantForward on this webinar recording.
  • Foundation Directory Online - for private foundation funding. Can search grants as well as grant makers. Use this direct link to access Emory's subscription. You can also subscribe by email to the RFP bulletin to receive opportunities on Fridays.
  • TRAIN Inventory - free to use and no sign-in required. Helpful summary PDF documents show the organization's research portfolio, mission, and more.
  • gov - database of federal grant opportunities.
  • Weekly NIH Guide - sign up for this weekly email to see all new NIH notices, requests for applications and program announcements.
  • Funding for postdoctoral fellows

• Which NIH grant is appropriate for you?
• NIH RePORT: See what other grants have received NIH funding.
• Instructions for the NIH Biosketch: See also podcasts and using SciENcv to generate the format.
• Research Great Ideas
• 8 steps to turn your research idea into a competitive grant proposal
• Top TEN Things (PDF) every Mentored Career Development Awardee and Career Development Award Mentor should know
• Rigor and Reproducibility Requirements: One-page guide to NIH's Rigor and Reproducibility requirements, and Emory's guide to rigor, transparency, and reproducibility.

• Emory Office of Research Administration (ORA): Provides collaborative administrative systems and technical expertise to facilitate scholarship, research, and discovery from inception through dissemination and application.
• Core Facilities: Includes DOM cores as well as all Emory cores.
• IT Resources for Researchers: List of IT resources available to researchers at Emory.
• Ethical Dilemmas: Dilemmas in scientific research and professional integrity - cases and expert opinion
• Emory University Office of Compliance
• A guide to getting your clinical trial going at Emory University
• Team Science: advice and resources for collaboration

Quality Improvement Scholarship Resources

• One-Stop-Shop for Manuscript Development
• WHSC Library: Available workshops as well as how to best utilize the library.
• Emory FIRST
• Find your H-index: Commonly used to measure both the productivity and citation impact of a researcher's body of work (if your h-index is 20, that means you have 20 publications that have been cited at least 20 times in the literature).
• Oral and Poster Presentation Resources: Templates, printing and logo use information.