Funder Focus: NIH and Selected DHHS Agencies
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This seminar will consist of the following: remarks from agency representatives, an overview of the agency's funding priorities, initiatives, and organizational structure for grantmaking, highlights of specific funding sources or programs of broad interest, highlights of MSU initiatives funded by the agency and best practices gleaned by the awarded project PI/Director, MSU administrative and compliance support personnel speaking to the administrative and regulatory considerations for working with the agency.
Who should attend: Faculty, Staff, Undergrad or Graduate Students and Postdocs interested in or already doing research in any Department of Health and Human Services Agency
Department of Health and Human Services
Funder Focus Agenda
October 2, 2024
1:00-1:15 Welcome – High level overview of HHS/NIH / Funding Opportunities / Org Structure / Mission / Planning Grants / Conference Grants / Stephanie Hyche, Director, Office of Research Development
1:15 – 1:45 Speaker – Dr. Mike Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health / Discuss Trends / Buzz / Initiatives / Policy Updates / Priorities
1:45 – 2:15 Speaker – Dr. Stephen O’Connor, Ph.D., Chief of the Suicide Prevention Research Program, Division of Services and Intervention Research, National Institute of Mental Health
2:15 – 2:35 Harish Chander, Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology – NIH Peer Reviews
2:35 – 2:45 BREAK
2:45 – 3:45 Administrative Panel moderated by Kacey Strickland, Director, Office of Compliance & Security and Office of Sponsored Projects – Discuss policies, best practices, IRB and IACUC issues, guidelines, programs
Nicole Cobb – Assistant Director and Research Compliance Officer, Office of Research Compliance and Security
Penny French – Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Projects
Shauncey Hill – Director of Projects and Strategic Planning, MSU Meridian Campus
Silas Knox – Senior Contract and Grant Specialist, College of Arts and Sciences
Nan Lomax - Senior Sponsored Programs Accountant, Sponsored Programs Accounting
Haley Williams - Sponsored Programs Accountant I, Sponsored Programs Accounting
3:45 - 3:50 BREAK
3:50 – 4:50 Research Panel moderated by Michael Nadorff, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Clinical Psychology – Discuss individual research projects within MSU, give advice to those seeking DHS/NIH funding, discuss best practices
Dr. David Buys – Interim Head of Campus, Associate Vice Provost, Associate Professor, MSU-Meridian
Dr. Jan Chambers – Professor, Center for Environmental Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine
Dr. Harish Chander – Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Dr. Mary Dozier – Assistant Professor, Psychology
Dr. Bindu Nanduri – Professor, Department of Comparative Biological Sciences
Dr. David Van Den Heever – Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering