A MICCAI 2021 Satellite Event
Research Funding Pursuits:
What You Have Not Known Yet
September 27, 2-6 pm UTC (10am-2pm EST), Virtual Webinar
Research in biomedical and bioengineering sciences is entering a new phase due to several important influences, such as the quick advancement of artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. To conduct sustainable research activities, pursuit of research funding is one of the most critical enablers and challenges. Nowadays there are greater and evolving opportunities from different federal/governmental funding agencies (such as NIH and NSF) that researchers should be aware and learn about in order to identify suitable funding mechanisms to increase the successful rates of their funding applications. These funding opportunities include smaller scale grants as well as larger scale center grants. There are also different funding mechanisms for researchers at different stages of career (e.g., postdocs, junior faculty, mid-career, and senior investigators). While there is too much information available from funding agencies, it is also hard to navigate and capture some of the key nuances in order to find fitting opportunities. A tutorial from related program directors of the funding agencies will be tremendously helpful for researchers to learn more information and master some skillset for funding applications. In addition, research funding has become more and more competitive to acquire due to increase of researchers and limitation of available budget. How to write a competitive proposal targeting different funding mechanisms is of great interest for researchers to learn and improve their grant writing skillset. A tutorial from successful, renowned, and established investigators on sharing grant writing and application experiences will be extremely helpful for researchers especially for new and junior researchers, including students and trainees.
In this tutorial, various program directors from NIH, NSF, European and other funding agencies will talk about funding opportunities, mechanisms, and procedures, and share their experiences and observations on successful funding activities. Successful investigators with strong funding track-records will share their experience and skills on grant writing and applications. The overall learning objective is to provide attendees more information, navigation, guidance, and experience on grant opportunities and make applications to different agencies, enabling researchers to learn important skills for successful funding pursuit. In particular, attendees will learn from this tutorial about uncommon funding mechanisms and international funding opportunities. MICCAI researchers and conference attendees will tremendously benefit from this tutorial and learn experiences for successful funding applications.
Director - National Technology Centers Program
Acting Director - Division of Health Informatics Technologies
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
USA
Director - Department of Biology and Health
The French National Research Agency (ANR)
France
Wendy Nilsen, PhD
Acting Deputy Division Director
Information and Intelligent Systems; Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate
National Science Foundation (NSF)
USA
Programme Director, Life Sciences 3: Medicine
Scientific Instrumentation and Information Technology
The German Research Foundation (DFG)
Germany
John A. Jurenko Endowed Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
USA
Professor and Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition)
Department of Computer Science
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Germany
Donnell Institute Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering/Pathology/Radiology/Computer and Data Science
Case Western Reserve University
USA
Research Group Leader
Consultant Radiologist
University of Zurich & University Hospital Zurich
Switzerland
Time period: 2-5:45pm UTC
2:00-2:05: Introduction (Shandong Wu & Behrouz Shabestari)
Section 1: Research Funding Information and Opportunities: Funding Agency Officers
Moderator: Shandong Wu
4 speakers x 20 mins/talk
2:05-2:25: Funding at NIH, USA (Behrouz Shabestari, PhD)
2:25-2:45: Funding at ANR, France (Dominique Dunon-Bluteau, PhD)
2:45-3:05: Funding at NSF, USA (Wendy Nilsen, PhD)
3:05-3:25: Funding at DFG, Germany (Christian Renner, PhD)
3:25-3:55: Q&A and discussion (30 mins)
Present: all funding agency officer speakers
3:55-4:05: Break
Section 2: Research Funding: Experience Sharing from Grantees
Moderator: Behrouz Shabestari
4 speakers x 15 mins/talk
4:05-4:20: Funding achievement experience (Heng Huang, PhD)
4:20-4:35: Funding achievement experience (Andreas Maier, Phd)
4:35-4:50: Funding achievement experience (Anant Madabhushi, PhD)
4:50-5:05: Grant writing experience (Bettina Baessler, MD)
5:05-5:35: Q&A and discussion (30 mins)
Present: grantee speakers + funding agency speakers + organizers
5:35-5:45: Closing remarks and adjourn (Behrouz Shabestari & Shandong Wu)
