Mission

UAB OB/GYN Research Development is committed to advancing excellence in women’s health research. We strive to ignite innovative cross-disciplinary collaborations and enhance our researchers' ability to secure competitive extramural funding. Our comprehensive services include expert proposal development and refinement, project management to foster effective team science, and facilitation of creative brainstorming sessions to generate groundbreaking ideas. By providing strategic management of proposal resources and cultivating an environment that nurtures scientific innovation, we aim to empower women’s health researchers.

Find Funding with Pivot-RP

Pivot-RP is a comprehensive research funding database and discovery tool. It allows researchers, administrators, and institutions to search for and track funding opportunities from a wide range of global sources, including government agencies, foundations, and corporations.

• Link to website: Pivot-RP
• Demostration Video

Services

• Finding Research Funding

  • Discuss research goals
  • Identify funding opportunities
  • Develop funding strategy based on career stage and research objectives
  • Brainstorming sessions
    • Facilitate ideation and/or planning sessions

• Proposal Management

  • Provide project management
    • Coordinate research team meetings
    • Assist with agendas and meeting notes
    • Track the team’s progress and deadlines
    • Create timelines and checklists
    • Help assign proposal tasks
  • Communicate with the Research Administrator
    • Coordinate division of tasks, e.g., collection of biosketches, letters of support, etc.
  • Draft proposal content
  • Create a draft template for the proposal
  • Letters of Support/Collaboration
  • Facilities, Resources, and Equipment
  • Provide examples of documents such as Management or Multi-PI Plans, Data Management/Sharing Plans, Mentoring Plans, Plans for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives, etc.

• Proposal Review and Editing

  • Organize internal or external proposal peer review before
    • Arrange critical reviews of proposals, projects, or performances to help identify strengths and weaknesses before work is presented to external reviewers/audiences
    • Collect and distribute reviewer and/or panel feedback to the PI and team members
  • Edit proposal documents
  • Structure, organization, and formatting
  • Clarity, consistency, logic, grammar/typos
  • Adherence to the agency’s requirements

• Graphics Support

  • Consult about graphics needs
  • Design graphics or coordinate with artists for proposals

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