RPI Campus.News April 25, 2005: Rensselaer Hosts First NIBIB Regional Grantsmanship Seminar

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Rensselaer Hosts First NIBIB Regional Grantsmanship Seminar

Members of the NIBIB and Rensselaer staff celebrate the success of the NIBIB's first regional Grantsmanship Seminar. Photo by Tiffany Lohwater

Rensselaer's Office of Research hosted the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering's (NIBIB) first regional Grantsmanship Seminar on April 20 at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies. More than 100 researchers and grant administrators from research institutions around the country attended this first in NIBIB's planned series of seminars designed to inform researchers, students, and others about National Institutes of Health (NIH), NIBIB funding opportunities, and the NIH application, review, and grant-awarding processes.

"Educating new researchers in the NIH application and review process is critically important. As an institute that supports the development of emerging technologies, the NIBIB attracts many researchers new to this process, particularly in the quantitative sciences area," said Institute Director Roderic Pettigrew '73, Ph.D., M.D. "This seminar and associated Grantsmanship Toolkit should be very useful to them."

The one-day program included presentations by NIH staff on overviews of the NIBIB and the NIH, NIBIB research and

Deanna Thompson (left) and Natacha DePaola (right) of Rensselaer's biomedical engineering department discuss grant opportunities with Fei Wang, NIBIB program director. Photo by Tiffany Lohwater.

training programs and opportunities, the NIH peer review process, and tips for preparing NIH grant applications.

Rensselaer NIH grantees Suvranu De, assistant professor of mechanical, aerospace, and nuclear engineering, George Plopper, assistant professor of biology, and Julie Stenken, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, shared their perspectives and experiences with the NIH application and review system.

"Given Rensselaer's increasing presence in research at the intersection of engineering and the life sciences and NIBIB's emerging focus on this research, the seminar provided a wonderful opportunity for Rensselaer to host a program that served to educate researchers and students about related grant opportunities," said Robert Palazzo, director of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies.

Conference participants toured the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the conclusion of the program.

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