MEET THE PROGRAM EXPERTS: LET'S CHAT!

This mentoring session provides an opportunity for early stage and experienced investigators to informally meet 1:1 with one or more Federal Agency and Research Foundation program experts at SPR. This interactive networking event will allow attendees to speak with individual program experts and ask their own questions about topics such as:

• Agency/foundation research and training priorities
• Grants processes and Agency/Foundation policies
• Extramural funding opportunities and how to maintain external funding
• How to align funding opportunities to your research idea
• How to profit from review feedback
• Opportunities and challenges in building a research career
• Elements of success in transition to research independence

Nerenberg, Laura, Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

Meyer, Aleta, Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

Niolon, Phyllis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Clark, Dave, National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Agurs-Collins, Tanya, National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Wiseman, Kara, National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Hilton, Michael, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Shirley, Mariela, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Sims, Belinda, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Reider, Eve, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Pintello, Denise, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Zhang, Xinzhi, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

Godette, Dionne , Office of Disease Prevention (ODP)

DuMont, Kim, William T. Grant Foundation