CSDE hosts an annual summer grant writing program to assist scholars in preparing applications to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Participants learn more about NIH grant mechanisms, grant-writing, and grant reviewing, while also writing their own grant, receiving mentored feedback from experienced NIH grant recipients, incorporating and revising their grants, and providing feedback to others in the workshop. The intensive writing workshop includes regular meetings, discussion sessions, and feedback on all aspects of research plans and proposals. The program seeks to demystify the grant-writing process and creates a supportive environment that produces proposals ready for submission to the NIH by the October or December deadline of the following year.