Grant Development

Provide institutional standardized and customizable templates for documents including but not limited to facilities, equipment & other resources, current & pending support, letters of collaboration, and research timeline tables.

Provide actionable insights and future-looking intelligence to inform leadership decisions and proposal strategy, conduct capacity analyses of UTMB’s strengths in key research areas, landscape analyses of funding opportunities or leading research institutions/individuals in a particular field, and program analyses of specific funding programs and sponsor analyses to understand their broader funding strategies.

Facilitate an independent group of experts (or senior faculty) to review the proposal draft for scientific merit, completeness and persuasiveness, and how appropriately it is weighted to the sponsor’s evaluation criteria (for large scale proposals) and provide feedback on the clarity and direction of preliminary draft components.

Provide individual investigator consultations to support the development of research plans and proposal content, provide proposal outlines and templates to guide the writing process, monitor progress and inform specific team members of any upcoming action items and deadlines, and provide guidance on navigating UTMB's research enterprise.