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Job Opportunities from the Rapid Response Team

  • Do you have a background in science but are looking beyond teaching and conducting research?
  • Do you have the ability to write well and craft grammatically correct documentation?
  • Are you interested in advancing translational research?

If so, the Rapid Response Team wants to hear from you.

Two new positions are available.

Call us about this and apply online at:

Rapid Response Team (RRT)


Contact Us
RRT staff are available to set up investigators and team members with the grant proposal management software as well as to facilitate initial brainstorming sessions. For more information, please contact us at:
E-mail: rrt@mednet.ucla.edu

Telephone: (310) 267-4258

Welcome to Grant Proposal Management: rrt.healthsciences.ucla.edu

The UCLA CTSI Rapid Response Team initiates, cultivates, nurtures, supports and enhances research and collaboration. RRT's services include e-mail updates about CER and PCORI funding opportunities, brainstorming sessions for faculty interested in forming collaborative teams, and a secure, online workspace for grant preparation.

The online RRT Grant Proposal Management Software System is tailored for time and people management. To visit our grant management system, please visit http://rrt.healthsciences.ucla.edu. This online tool includes:

  • Automated, clear task assignments with deadlines and messaging (email notifications) for both scientists and grant administrators to ensure that key scientific and administrative tasks are completed at the optimal time
  • Real-time project access for all project members so they can identify who is working on what part of the project at what time
  • Shared document functionality to provide easy access to and storage for files and from which collaborators can access current versions of documents without digging through email and worrying about editing versions that are not current
  • For grant preparation oversight and evaluation purposes, the RRT software will generate specialized reports for PIs, administrative staff and other team members detailing status of grants and tasks, including Gantt charts, calendars, to-do lists
  • Month-formatted calendars with actions due for a given grant will be available to all of the team members involved in specific grant responses
  • Oversight of the timeline will be facilitated by the color coded Gantt charts as well as task lists, to allow administrators to identify overdue, due and pending action items by person (Gantt diagrams; see example below)

RRT Example

For questions please see our FAQs on the right side of this page. 

Structured Brainstorming Sessions

The UCLA CTSI RRT organizes, facilitates and hosts structured brainstorming sessions involving investigators across all CTSI partner institutions to encourage cross-institutional collaboration and to discuss the development of the strongest possible responses:

  • How it could be more innovative?
  • Which are the best possible data/populations?
  • Who would be best external reviewers of the concept?
  • Who are the strongest competitors?
  • What can we do that is unique?
  • How strong are we nationally in this topic area?
  • What are our weaknesses and what could be done to address weaknesses, strengthen the proposal?
  • Provide Gantt timeline and checklists tailored to each proposal.


Comments

"The RRT was quite instrumental in facilitating CTSI submissions for the PCORI RFP. The RRT was well organized, prepared, and willing to help. Keep up the good work."

- Dr. Michael Weisman from Cedars-Sinai

"I am grateful that CTSI had the foresight to establish the RRT to help us navigate through the PCORI application process. The RRT was able to engage CTSI health services researchers to review our PCORI grant and to offer critical suggestions for revision. This RRT function within CTSI is going to be a valuable asset to our faculty researchers to assure successful submission of future grant applications."

- Dr. Carl Maida from UCLA School of Dentistry

"I think that the UCLA CTSI RRT is one of the best new developments for UCLA CHS investigators because it helps all of us to stay abreast on a moment's notice of the latest cutting edge happenings and request for proposals in the emerging, fast growing and rapidly evolving field of translational science and patient-centered outcomes research."

- Dr. Francesco Chiappelli from UCLA School of Dentistry

"The RRT grant proposal management software is great! It allows everything to be stored in one single place that is easily accessible, provides a clean workspace, and is great for task management."

- Rhonda Steele (admin) from School of Public Health

UCLA Center for Maximizing Outcomes and Research on Effectiveness (C-MORE)

Though there are many disparate voices in the current national health care debate, no one can dispute the need to address the escalating costs of medicine. The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world, yet our actual health outcomes have fallen behind those of many less wealthy nations. A successful future for health care in America will require careful and thoughtful analysis of the methodologies we apply to diagnosis and treatment, with an eye toward simultaneously reducing costs and improving results.

The mission of C-MORE is to improve patient and community outcomes and reduce health care costs in the United States by comparing different treatments and interventions using state-of-the-science evaluation methods. To this end, C-MORE will employ the knowledge and experience of academic leaders and health care providers, combined with extensive input from patient communities in the Los Angeles area. 

Visit the C-MORE site for more information on their seminar schedule, list of faculty, archives and more.

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