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NIGMS Support of Career Development (K) Awards

Wednesday, Dec 5, 2012 12:32 PM EST by Alison Cole | 0 Comments

NIH offers a wide variety of career development (K) awards, and NIGMS participates in a number of them. Here are answers to questions we often get about NIGMS support of these awards. Which career development awards (K awards) does NIGMS support? We support: Mentored Clinical Career Development Awards (K08, K23) in clinical research areas funded [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Funding Opportunities, Resources, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/12/05/nigms-support-of-career-development-k-awards/

New Resource for Individual Development Plans

Monday, Sep 10, 2012 3:58 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

Our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training stresses the importance of creating an individual development plan (IDP) for every graduate student and postdoctoral scholar, not just those supported on formal training grants. The plan’s implementation blueprint addresses this action item, and we’ve since posted more information and links to sample IDPs. The latest [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/09/10/new-resource-for-individual-development-plans/

Guidance for Implementing NIGMS’ Training Strategic Plan

Friday, May 11, 2012 3:31 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 1 Comments

Earlier this year, we issued a Blueprint for Implementation of our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training. Since then, we’ve developed guidance to help the academic community implement the plan. This includes several short documents on the topics below: Improvement of Research Training Activities Individual Development Plans Evidence-Based Mentoring Limitation of Training Time [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/05/11/guidance-for-implementing-nigms-training-strategic-plan/

Optimizing the Research Training Partnership

Monday, Feb 13, 2012 12:43 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 10 Comments

It’s been nearly a year since we posted our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training. In August, I announced that we were on course to implement most of the plan in early 2012. I’m very pleased to tell you that our Blueprint for Implementation is now available. As you’ll see, it’s truly a [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2012/02/13/optimizing-the-research-training-partnership/

Back by Popular Demand: Workshop for Transitioning Postdocs

Thursday, Nov 3, 2011 2:19 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 2 Comments

We’re holding our second two-day workshop for postdoctoral fellows who soon will transition to their first independent positions. It will take place on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD, March 12-13, 2012. All eligible postdocs may apply, but we especially encourage applications from members of groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical or behavioral sciences. [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Meetings/Events
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/11/03/back-by-popular-demand-workshop-for-transitioning-postdocs/

Systems Biology Center Offers Computational Course Materials

Monday, Sep 26, 2011 4:14 PM EST by Sarah Dunsmore | 2 Comments

In addition to their systems-level studies of complex biological phenomena, the NIGMS-supported National Centers for Systems Biology engage in a variety of training and outreach activities. One recent example is a curriculum for first-year graduate students created by the New York Center for Systems Biology. This material introduces computational principles and approaches that are becoming [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Resources, Training/Fellowships
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/26/systems-biology-center-offers-computational-course-materials/

Nominate Outstanding Mentors for Presidential Awards

Wednesday, Sep 7, 2011 3:03 PM EST by Judith Greenberg | 0 Comments

Mentoring is a core value at NIGMS, and we emphasize it in our training, career development and other programs. Among the mentoring activities we encourage in our Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training are the use of individual development plans and the adoption of evidence-based practices to grow trainees’ career skills. Another reflection [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/09/07/nominate-outstanding-mentors-for-presidential-awards/

Training and Biomedical Workforce Update

Monday, Aug 22, 2011 9:07 AM EST by Judith Greenberg | 4 Comments

As you know from a previous post, in April we issued Investing in the Future: NIGMS Strategic Plan for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Training. Since then, several NIGMS working groups have been very busy devising practical ways to implement the plan’s 15 action items. Last month, we brought together about 25 stakeholders—training grant directors, other [...]

Filed under: Career Development, Director’s Messages, Training/Fellowships, Workforce Development and Diversity
Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/08/22/training-and-biomedical-workforce-update/

Journal Essay: Perspectives of a Program Officer

Tuesday, Aug 2, 2011 9:03 AM EST by Marion Zatz | 0 Comments

I’ve been a program officer for NIGMS research and training activities for 27 years. The Molecular Biology of the Cell journal recently asked me to describe the general roles of such a position, including the challenges and rewards. My essay , which appeared in the August 1 issue, offers insight into what the job entails [...]

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Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/08/02/journal-essay-perspectives-of-a-program-officer/

Meetings Help Develop a Diverse Scientific Workforce

Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 1:43 PM EST by Shawn Drew Gaillard | 0 Comments

As part of our commitment to developing a diverse scientific workforce, we sponsor the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) national conference and the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) . These conferences represent two of the largest gatherings of science and math undergraduate students from groups that [...]

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Permalink: https://loop.nigms.nih.gov/index.php/2011/07/07/meetings-help-develop-a-diverse-scientific-workforce/

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