Guiding students on how to develop a well-reasoned scientific proposal based on a rigorous scientific premise, and to apply these lessons to preparing a successful fellowship application is the focus of a two-part workshop given three times a year by Fred Gorelick and Reiko Fitzsimonds. Working closely with the students and their PIs, we delve into detailed strategies for developing clear and concise specific aims, identifying relevant new learning experiences, enumerating short- and long-term career goals, and responding to reviewer critiques – skills that are foundational for successful proposal development now and for their future careers as physician-scientists. Our students have remarkable success rates in NRSA F30 and F31 applications, largely exceeding individual NIH institute benchmarks with an overall success rate of 63% in the years between 2010-2018. 2020 was no exception to this success--congratulations to the following students:
Shawn Ahn
NRSA F30; NIH/NHLBI
Deep Learning-based Framework for Segmentation and Motion Tracking of Left Ventricle in 3D Echocardiography
Emmanuella Asabor
Robert Wood Johnson Fellowship
Health Policy Research Scholars Opportunity
Jennifer Chen
NRSA F30; NIH/NHLBI
Regulation of T Cell-derived cytokines in allergic airway inflammation
Adriana Cherskov
NRSA F30; NIH/NIMH
Characterizing human-specific expression of ZP2 in the cerebellum
Ryan Chow
NRSA F30; NIH/NCI
Mechanosensation in tumorigenesis and metastasis
Stefano Daniele
Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation for New Americans
Tyrone DeSpenza
NRSA F31; NIH/NINDS
The Role of Pten in Congenital Hydrocephalus
James Garritano
NRSA F30; NIH/NHGRI
Efficient Methods for Dimensionality Reduction of Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Data
Luis Gonzalez
NRSA F30; NIH/NHLBI
Regulation of venous remodeling and arteriovenous fistula patency by the matricellular protein Tenascin-C
Ruoyi Jiang
NRSA F31; NIH/NIAID
Identifying immunotherapy targets against thymus B cells in AChR myasthenia
Sahana Kribakaran
NRSA F30; NIH/NIMH
Investigating the Associations Between Safety Cue Learning and Trauma Exposure in Development
Manik Kuchroo
NRSA F30; NIH/NIAID
Characterizing Shared Features of Innate Immune Cells across Neurodegenerative Diseases using Single Cell Expression and Chromatin Accessibility Data
Kingson Lin
NRSA F30; NIH/NCI
Exploitation of Intrinsic DNA Repair Defects with DNA Damaging Agents in Cancer
Annsea Park
NRSA F30; NIH/NIAID
A novel class of long non-coding RNA in regulation of the type 1 interferon response
Eric Song
Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation for New Americans