Didactic Session: Basic Elements of Grant Writing
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: Benjamin L. Ebert, MD, DPhil

Breakout 1 Sessions
Each breakout is intended to be an interactive Q&A session. The speakers will present didactic material including personal experiences, mistakes to avoid, tips for getting funded, how to utilize time and resources and how to choose a mentor and research/lab team for basic, clinical and translational science.

Breakout 1: Establishing a Research Career in Basic Science
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: Jonathan D. Licht, MD

Breakout 1: Establishing a Research Career in Clinical Science
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: Stella M. Davies, MBBS, PhD

Breakout 1: Establishing a Research Career in Translational Science
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: Catherine M. Bollard, MD

Breakout 2 Sessions
Each breakout is intended to be an interactive Q&A session. The speakers will present didactic material including personal experiences and examples of well written and poorly written grants for basic, clinical and translational science.

Breakout 2: The Secret to Getting Funded in Basic Science
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: John P. Chute, MD

Breakout 2: The Secret to Getting Funded in Clinical Science
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: Adam Cuker, MD, MS

Breakout 2: The Secret to Getting Funded in Translational Science
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Speaker: Colleen Delaney, MD, MSC

Didactic Panel Session
This will be an interactive session in which the panel members will discuss a typical NIH study section meeting and will critique one or more grant applications.
Chair: Angela R. Smith, MD, MS
Panelists: Elizabeth A. Eklund, MD, Kathleen Sakamoto, MD, PhD, Cynthia E. Dunbar, MD