Educational Videos, Tools & Workshops
- K Workshops
- K Scholars Society
- R Workshops
- Career Development
- Mentorship
- Events
- Other Grant-Writing Resources
About K Award Workshops
K workshops are held several times a year to provide junior faculty with advice and feedback on their draft applications to increase their success with NIH K awards. A survey of more than 300 participants found that the workshop improved their understanding of a K grant (see graphic). In addition, junior investigators who participated in the application reviews said face-to-face feedback was highly beneficial.
K Award Workshop Presentations
See below for the most recent K workshop slide presentations and video recordings.
Navigating the K Award Process
For the video, click here.
Speaker: Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH
Barbara A. Levey MD & Gerald S. Levey MD Endowed Chair, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Leader of UCLA CTSI Workforce Development, UCLA
Writing the NIH K Award – Research Plan
For the video, click here.
Speaker: Sumeet S. Chugh, MD, Price Professor and Associate Director, Smidt Heart Institute, Director, Division of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Writing the NIH K Award – Candidate Information and Career Development Plan, How Reviewers Evaluate K Awards, Common Critiques from NIH K Study Sections
For the video, click here.
Speaker: O. Kenrik Duru, MD, MSHS, Professor of Medicine at UCLA, Investigator (Disparities), UCLA CTSI Special Populations
K99/R00 Awards - Pathways to Independence
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Speaker: Chris Evans, PhD, Director of the Brain Research Institute, UCLA
UCLA CTSI KL2 Resources
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Speaker: Elizabeta Nemeth, PhD, Co-Director of UCLA CTSI KL2 Program, UCLA
The UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) KL2 Program has expanded the K Scholars Society (formerly known as K & Career Development Seminars) to NIH K and other career development awardees. These monthly seminars generally take place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 3:00-5:00 pm unless otherwise noted. Click here to get the schedule and apply for each academic year.
For more information, please email CTSIWD@mednet.ucla.edu.
About R Award Workshops
R Award Workshops provide junior faculty with advice on how to leverage research conducted during a K award to obtain an R award. Workshops cover all the steps involved in preparing, writing and resubmitting an R award proposal.
R Award Workshop Presentations
See below for the most recent R Award Workshop slide presentations and video recordings.
How to Anticipate and Plan an R Grant Application
For the video, click here.
Speaker: Carol M. Mangione, MD, MSPH
Professor of Medicine, UCLA
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Speaker: William Parks, PhD
Professor of Medicine, UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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Speaker: Tannaz Moin, MD, MBA, MSHS
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA
For the video, click here.
Speaker: William Parks, PhD
Professor of Medicine, UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
For the video, click here.
Speaker: Scott G. Filler, MD
Professor of Medicine, Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA
For the video, click here.
Speaker: David Elashoff, PhD
Professor of Medicine, UCLA
For the video, click here.
Speaker: Scott G. Filler, MD
Professor of Medicine, Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA
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Tannaz Moin, MD, MBA, MSHS
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCLA
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Speaker: Scott G. Filler, MD
Professor of Medicine, Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA
The Rebuttal Letter
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Speaker: Scott G. Filler, MD
Professor of Medicine, Lundquist/Harbor-UCLA
The meetings, which are for Track 2 enrollees only, give trainees the opportunity to discuss their research in an open, yet structured format during which they receive feedback from their peers, as well as the Program Director and faculty representatives. At each meeting, three to four trainees give individual presentations. Occasionally, there are invited special lecturers in place of trainee presentations.
Who: Track 2 fellows in clinical research
When: Third Tuesday of each month from 11:30am - 1:30pm
Where: Westwood Conference Room, CHS 14-214U
For more information about the Track 2 program, contact Training Program Coordinator, Doug Smoot, at tptstraining@mednet.ucla.edu
The DGSOM Josiah Brown Poster Fair is an annual event that gives students an opportunity to present their research. Participants include medical students in the DGSOM Pathway in Clinical and Translational Research and health professional students (medical, nursing and dental) in the UCLA CTSI TL1 Summer Fellowship.
Learn more about the annual poster fair.
CTSI's K Scholar Society offers mentorship curriculum (adapted from UCSF) to junior faculty as they begin their mentoring career. This training is offered as part of the Society’s monthly didactic seminars. To access the curriculum, you must be enrolled in the K Scholars Society. Learn more about the K Scholar Society and the application schedule.
For questions on this curriculum, contact Lisa Chan, lchan@mednet.ucla.edu.
There is growing consensus in the biostatistical community that pilot studies being done in preparation for RCTs should not be used to estimate effect sizes. If this is true, what is the purpose of a pilot study, and how is a pilot study different from a feasibility study? And how should grant applicants approach these issues strategically, given that some study sections still expect a pilot study to estimate an effect size?
CTSI covers all of these issues and more related to pilot study design in this 1-hour moderated panel with statisticians and health services researchers with extensive expertise writing and reviewing pilot study grant proposals.
Panelist Speakers:
David Elashoff PhD, Professor of Medicine, Biostatistics and Computational Medicine, Director of UCLA CTSI Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) program.
Sitaram Vangala, Principal Statistician, UCLA CTSI BERD
Kenrik Duru MD, Professor of Medicine and Co-PI, UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research/Center for Healthcare of Minority Elders (RCMAR/CHIME)
Moderator:
Catherine Sarkisian MD, Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of UCLA CTSI Special Populations Core
Burroughs Welcome Fund CAMS Award Webinar – August 29, 2023
The CTSI and DGSOM Office of Physician Scientist Career Development held this webinar to provide information about the Burroughs Welcome Fund (BWF) Career Awards for Medical Scientist (CAMS). This is a highly-competitive, prestigious award that provides $700,000 over 5 years for physician scientists who are early in their career. Physician Scientists who conduct basic, clinical, or translational research are eligible to apply (no health services research). Career development grant awardees (NIH K and VA CDAs) are eligible.
CLICK HERE to view the recording.
Panelists:
Tamer Sallam, MD, PhD – 2016 Recipient
Grant Title: Spatial control of nuclear receptor regulatory circuits in cardiovascular disease
Bio: Dr. Sallam is Vice Chair and Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is executive Co-Director of the UCLA STAR program. His research investigates the role of novel transcription factor regulatory circuits in cardiometabolic disease.
Gil Hoftman, MD, PhD – 2022 Recipient
Grant Title: Imaging transcriptomics across developmental stages of early psychotic illness
Bio: Dr. Hoftman is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia, with an emphasis on understanding the cell and circuit specific developmental trajectories of these key molecular components.
Moderator:
Mitchell Wong, MD, PhD, - UCLA CTSI KL2 Director and Co-Director of the DGSOM Office of Physician Scientist Career Development
Loan Repayment Program Info Session - September 26, 2023
The UCLA CTSI and DGSOM Office of Physician Scientist Career Development
held this webinar to provide information on the NIH Loan Repayment
Program (LRP). The LRP is designed to recruit and retain highly
qualified health professionals into biomedical or biobehavioral research
careers. The LRPs counteract financial pressure by repaying up to
$50,000 annually of a researcher's qualified educational debt in return
for a commitment to engage in NIH mission-relevant research.
Click here to view the recording.
Click here to view the Powerpoint presentation
Click Here to view the LRP FAQ
Panelists:
Patricia Ganz, MD
Bio: Dr. Ganz is Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management, in the Fielding School of Public Health, Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of the Center for Cancer Prevention & Control Research at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. She is a pioneer in the assessment of quality of life in cancer patients, and has focused much of her clinical and research efforts in the areas of breast cancer and its prevention. Dr. Ganz is one of the Co-Directors of the Office of Physician Scientist Career Development and has successfully mentored several individuals who were recipients of the LRP.
Benjamin Meza, MD - Recipient in 2021 & 2023
Grant Title: Longitudinal Effects of School Climate on Adolescent Social Networks and Substance Use
Bio: Dr. Meza is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. He is an internal medicine and pediatrics trained clinician-investigator whose research interests include the role of social networks in health equity and development throughout the life course. He is currently studying the effect of cooperative group goals on the formation of social networks and prevention of adolescent substance use.
Kathleen Van Dyk, PhD - Recipient in 2017, 2019 & 2020
Grant Title: Cognitive Decline in Breast Cancer Survivors
Bio: Dr. Van Dyk is a Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences/Semel Institute. Her research focuses on understanding and treating cognitive decline following cancer and its treatment, particularly with respect to older adults, aging processes, and risk for dementia. She is currently studying the interaction of menopausal status, endocrine therapy for breast cancer and cognitive function.
UCLA CTSI Funding Search Tools, Grant-Writing Tips & Templates
Visit the UCLA CTSI Funding Search Tools, Grant-Writing Tips and Diversity Supplements to search for resources on crafting a grant application. This page includes tips for:
- Diversity Supplements
- General Grant-Writing Tips
- Guide to CTSI Grant Writing Resources
- K and K-to-R Grant-Writing Tips
- NIH Application Guide
- NIH Resources and Grant-Writing Tips
- Search Tools for Funding Opportunities
- UCLA's Commonly Needed Information
- UCLA Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research: Research Enhancement materials
