How to Secure Funding for Your Research: Panel Discussion Spotlighting Past Winners of ABCT’s Graduate Student Research Grant

Applying for research funding can be a daunting task for early career investigators. Practical grantsmanship guidance is typically absent from graduate courses, and many funding agencies do not provide feedback for unfunded proposals, leaving applicants uncertain of the key to funding success. Accordingly, this Research and Professional Development Panel aims to leverage expertise from 5 previous winners of ABCT’s Graduate Student Research Grant (GSRG), awarded by the Research Facilitation Committee (RFC), who have already foraged the grant writing path. In a series of blitz presentations, panelists (Forrest, Ilagan, Pritchard, Sarfan) will provide a brief background on their topic, describe what initially interested them in this work, and share aspects of their proposal they believe ensured its success. They will additionally describe key aspects of their research methodology, including how they overcame any unexpected challenges during data collection. Finally, they will summarize their results as well as share how this grant has advanced their research careers. Dr. Ryan Jacoby (also a GSRG winner and chair of the RFC) will moderate the panel, and discussant Dr. Maggie Sweeney (NIMH Program Officer) will summarize the presentations and highlight grantsmanship recommendations. An interactive discussion will follow with questions from the audience.

Sponsored by: The Research Facilitation Committee
• Abby Adler Mandel, Ph.D. (The Catholic University of America)
• Anu Asnaani, Ph.D. (University of Utah)
• Shawn Jones, Ph.D. (Virginia Commonwealth University)
• Joseph Carpenter, Ph.D. (National Center for PTSD)
• Alex Daros, Ph.D. (University of Windsor)
• Ramya Ramadurai (American University)
• Kristin Szuhany (NYU Langone Health)
• Andrew Sherrill (Emory)
• Amy Brausch (Western Kentucky University)

This session does not qualify for continuing education credits.