Congratulations on getting funded, now what? - Creating the Reality

Ian D. Bier, I.B. Scientific, LLC, Durham, NH, www.IBScientific.com

Turning a grant into a successful research project is a complex, and often difficult task. The time between writing the grant, to acceptance by the granting agency can create changes in circumstance that necessitate protocol modifications, while Institutional Board Approval requires strict adherence to protocol.

Various situations can arise a while trying to actualize the grant. Resources that were projected may have to be modified, due to loss of staff or use of rooms by the time the grant is approved. Although assembling a grant is difficult, we hope to be able to concentrate on research afterwards. Unfortunately, overseeing purchases, subject recruitment, and completing quarterly progress and expenditure reports is time consuming, and a skill wholly different then those required for good research. This talk will focus on some of the speaker's experience turning various grants into projects, the pitfalls that have occurred along the way, and offer some advice on how to be better prepared for them.