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Building Your Research Team Kurt M. Ribisl, PhD Gillings School of Global Public Health
NIH Early Career Investigators Meeting, Bethesda, MD August 10, 2017
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Goal
To identify strategies that will help early career researchers build a research team that will help them get funded to do innovative and important health-related research
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1. Find Your People
You are often starting from scratch, with limited resources
Expend your startup funds (staffing/data), beg Center director or dept chair…
Recruit junior people by giving them valuable grant experience
The Team You
Senior/funded PI
Co-investigator
Stats/Methods person
Grad student / postdoc (n=1-2)
Project director?
Grants manager
Program Officer (for input on Aims)
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2. Start Very, Very Early
Quality and rigor derive from many iteration cycles (n=20-40 drafts)
People don’t like last minute requests Esp. your statistician (see #3)
Talk with people 4-6 months prior to deadline
Complete several sections at least 1 month before grant is due (so you can focus on the Science) Biosketches (ensure new format, PMCID #’s, 4 max articles)
Budget & narrative
Facilities
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3. Covet a Great Statistician
A great statistician is very hard to find
Woo your stats person
See if there is a BIOS or STATS Core at your institution
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4. Collaborate With Many People (Early on)
Don’t be afraid to ‘cold call’ people as collaborators / consultants or Co-I
Find your type of person
You will find some people who you are NOT compatible with and that is OK
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5. Find Worker Bees
Identify key people who will get things done
Not everyone excels at getting work done
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6. Learn to Delegate
You can’t do it all
Aims – don’t outsource Iterate a LOT
Significance (1st draft) grad student / postdoc based on your detailed outline
Innovation – trainee – based on your outline
Research Plan/Methods (you + input from your mentor + statistician)
References (Endnote – admin or trainee)
Budget/narrative – Project Director?
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7. Reward Your Team
Rewards work
Give people food, praise, $
Tout experience they will get
Example: Tom Brady
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Bonus
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Assemble a Tough Review Panel
3 Weeks before Proposal is due