NIH IRL: Join Us at the NIH Regional Seminar

I recently mentioned how much I enjoy starting a conversation through the blog with you, the investigators, grants administrators, research staff, and others in the research community. It’s a great way to help connect you with my perspective, and mine with yours.   At the NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration, I hold “Open Mike” sessions where I have no slides and no prepared remarks – I let the audience determine the topics we discuss. I love the opportunity for frank conversations about whatever is on your mind. While I meet with people in the grants community at many different events, the NIH Regional Seminar is one of my favorites because of the opportunity to hear in a common setting the perspectives and challenges of investigators and research administrators. I’m not the only one who feels this way. We bring close to 100 staff from across NIH and HHS who are interested in making connections with you. The 1:1 Meet the Experts is an invaluable chance to sit down face-to-face with NIH staff to get answers to your questions or to offer you further guidance, straight from the source. Our attendees have provided feedback that getting to know NIH staff on an individual basis during the 1:1 sessions is one of the best aspects of the seminar, and my NIH colleagues agree. In addition to providing a face and voice to NIH and HHS, the NIH Regional Seminar creates a learning experience where you can share your information and exp...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: blog Open Mike Grants management NIH Regional Seminar Source Type: funding