HRA professional development resources and trainings for early career researchers

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1	*Please fill in this resource with trainings you have created or vendors you have used to provide professional development for early career grantees (junior faculty and earlier)
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3	Organization name	Individual name	Organization that provided training (created internally vs outside vendor)	Training topic	Training type (resource library, on-demand video, live workshop, etc)	Program description

4	Pew Charitable Trusts	Kara Coleman	Center for the Improvment of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER)	Mentoring	Virtual or in-person live workshop	Mentoring workshop that is designed to fit the needs/level of your group (postdocs, jr faculty etc) and centers on topics like aligning expectations, communication, building self-efficacy
5	Pew Charitable Trusts	Kara Coleman	Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science	Science communication	In-person, live workshop	Workshop to hone science communications skills to different audiences
6	Pew Charitable Trusts	Kara Coleman	Pew (internally organized)	General professional development	In-person, speed dating	At annual grantee conferece, organized "speed dating" with program advisors (senior faculty) where early-career grantees could sit down to create connections with senior faculty. These short discussions were to set the basis for longer term mentoring relationships
7	Alzheimer's Association	Stefania Forner	Alzheimer's Association	General Guide to grants	Webinar	A week long, 1 hour session daily discussing with current and past awardees and reviewers from the Alzhiemer's Association regarding parts of the submission of letter of intent and full application. Focused on the Association's Fellowship programs.
8	Alzheimer's Association	Stefania Forner	Alzheimer's Association and NIA	Guide to Grants for ECR	Webinar	overview of NIA funding opportunities for postdocs and early career faculty, and tips for a successful application. Discuss will include an awardee from the Association that has been also awarded a K award.
9	Alzheimer's Association	Stefania Forner	Alz Associaiton and Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)	Guide to grants for ECR and international applicants	Webinar	introduction and overview of CDMRP global funding opportunities. CDMRP oversees the investment of USA congressionally directed dollars to fund groundbreaking, high-impact, high-risk, high-reward, meritorious research that targets critical research gaps to institutions across the globe. One of CDMRP's Programs, the Peer Reviewed Alzheimer's Research Program (PRARP) will share more about priorities and funding opportunities
10	Alzheimer's Association	Stefania Forner	Alzheimer's Association ISTAART	General professional development and scientific development	Webinars	Several webinars focused on specific topics of science and professional development.
11	Autism Science Foundation	Alycia Halladay	Rubenstein and Associates	talking to scientists	in person (before COVID)	We brought in a PR firm to have a 1/2 day long meeting before the International Society for Autism Research to train and prepare early career scientists to talk to the press
12	Autism Science Foundation	Alycia Halladay	NIEHS	networking	in person (before COVID)	We did a quick "match.com" and "speed dating" including both more seasoned investigators with early career researchers so that ideas and datasets could be matched up.
13	Autism Science Foundation	Alycia Halladay	internally	grant writing	webinar	ASF provides a grant-writing webinar to emphasize points out things that ASF emphasizes and how to apply for an ASF grant.
14	Simons Foundation	Alice Luo Clayton	Science Management Associates	Series of professional development workshops on various topics, including 1) Giving a great job talk, 2) Negiotiating job offers, and 3) Interviewing skills	Virtual or in-person live workshop	Sponsored in conjunction with the Flatiron Institute Lodestar Program. We hired, Carl Cohen (SMA), whose consulting company focuses on professional development activities for scientists. Each workshop is approximately 3 hrs.
15	Simons Foundation	Alice Luo Clayton	Haystack Sciences	Journal publishing and the editorial process	Virtual or in-person live workshop	Multi-day workshop (10 hrs content); 1:1 mentoring for those actively working on a manuscript
16	Simons Foundation	Alice Luo Clayton	internally	Grant funding strategies for the new PI	Virtual workshop	Workshop included NIH and foundation program representatives, department chairs, and 'senior ' BTI fellows who have secured R01s. Agenda included panel Q&A and breakout rooms
17	Simons Foundation	Alice Luo Clayton	internally	BTI fellows retreat	Virtual workshop	Held over a course of 6 weeks. Each meeting is half data talks and then multiple breakout rooms to discuss PD topics. Topics included 1) how to start a new lab 2) recruitment and mentoring, 3) research during Covid-19, 4) Getting R01 grants, 5) managing lab budgets, 6) PI leadership and time management skills. Each breakout room is led by 1-2 senior PIs with 5-7 BTI fellows in attendance. Every week, fellows attend breakout rooms led by different senior PIs, so that each fellow gets a 360 degree view by the end of the series.
18	Simons Foundation	Alice Luo Clayton	internally	RFA informational session	webinar	1.15 hr: Informational session for prospective applicants. Agenda as follows: 15 min RFA overview from program staff, 45 min Q&A with current fellows, 30 min breakout rooms moderated by current fellows
19	HRiA on behalf of Smith Family Foundation	Lara Bethke	Health Resources in Action	Science communication training and video production	virtual workshops, coaching, in person video production including graphics development	We work with a communications training consultant and a video production company to provide communications training to current early career awardees and support them in developing a two-minute TED-style video to explain what they do and why it is exciting and important. First cohort in progress now.
20	HRiA on behalf of Smith Family Foundation	Lara Bethke	Health Resources in Action	Alumni mentoring	in person speed dating event, virtual matching process, in person mentor-mentee meetings	We recruit alumni mentors, develop and administer a matching survey, plan and facilitate a speed dating event, coordinate the matching process, send reminders to schedule quarterly meetings, provide training materials and quarterly discussion guides, and follow-up with participants to check progress and satisfaction with the program and make reassignments as necessary. Just starting this, do not have outcomes yet.
21	HRiA on behalf of many partners	Lara Bethke	Health Resources in Action	RFA information and grant writing	webinar (supplemented with written grantwriting tips and links to other resources)	Recently we have provided much more explicit grant writing tips to applicants along with links to NIH and other grantwriting resources, statements about the importance of grantwriting to the review committee, and provided a webinar to talk through the RFA and some of the typical mistakes we see applicants making (we also share typical quotes from reviewers to give them a sense of the breadth of ways applications can go wrong). It is too early to say if it's a trend but the initial impact has been noticably higher scores in the final shortlisting stage, and feedback from committees that quality has improved. We continue to iterate. We are also structuring the application formatting a bit more to avoid the 9-page text squeeze but don't yet have data on how that is going to work out.
22	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Peer Support	In person and virtual Consultancies	Group problem-solving activity, structured to enable a set of people with a variety of knowledge and expertise to provide support, new perspectives, and ideas to one another, particularly around an important or difficult challenge. Includes research and career related topics
23	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Networking	Speed Networking - In person and virtual	Meeting colleagues from other disciplines can spark a new research idea or open the door to a solution to a problem that has seemed intractable. Each ‘meeting’ is no longer than 3 minutes, and each person should answer these questions: 1. What is your main research interest? 2. What expertise are you looking for in a research partner? 3. What can you offer a research partner?
24	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Networking/Mentoring	Speed Mentoring - In Person	Opportunity for the scholars to have brief, informal, but focused discussions with senior investigators outside their own institutions in aging research.
25	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Research Support	In person and virtual - Aims Pages Workshop	Scholars who are in the process of preparing grants can present their “Aims Page” to a small group (5-6 aims pages will be discussed) to get feedback and suggestions.
26	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Communication	In Person and Virtual - Shark Tank	Oportunity for participants to practice their research program “elevator pitch.” Each participant will begin with a 2-minute pitch using 3 slides (max). There will then be 6 minutes of feedback from the other participants and a 4-minute summary from the judges. The judges will follow a strict timetable and will identify a “winner” at the end of the session.
27	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Mentoring	Virtual - Zoom Office Hours	For one of our programs we offer an external mentoring session of about 30 min https://clin-star.org/office-hours
28	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Peer Support	Virtual - Zoom Peer Groups	https://clin-star.org/peer-support
29	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Professional Development	Webinar Series	wide range of topics particulary helpful to ECI - social media, use of biostatistics, NIA presentations on applying for specific funding mechanism, how to apply for loan repayment, etc.
30	American Federation for Aging Research	Odette van der Willik	Internally	Research Support/Collaboration	In person and virtual Data Blitzes	fast-track vehicle to understand research and which has led to collaborations and other networking opportunities with other Scholars. Each session involves a research theme and 5-6 presenters.
31	CureSearch for Children's Cancer	Caitlyn Barrett	Outside vendor	Biostatistics in clinical trials	Virtual workshop, prepared by CRAB	Yearly professional development/scientific development course of Young Investigators' choosing. This was developed based on a request for additional biostatistics training.
32	CureSearch for Children's Cancer	Caitlyn Barrett	Outside vendor	Scientific communications	In-person workshop (in planning stages), prepared by Agent Majeur	Yearly professional development/scientific development course of Young Investigators' choosing. This was developed based on a request for additional biostatistics training.
33	CureSearch for Children's Cancer	Caitlyn Barrett	Internally	Drug development mentorship program	Connecting Young Investigators with pediatric oncology champions in industry so that they better understand the drug development process and industry processes to enable them to better collaborate.
34	Fdn for PT Research	Liz Jackson	Outside vendor	Science Communication & Public Engagement Fundamentals	Webinars	The introductory-level, three-hour Science Communication and Public Engagement Fundamentals module introduces scientists and engineers to the latest science communication research and basic best practices for engaging with the public. Participants develop individual plans that include a public engagement goal and address ways to engage a relevant audience with tailored messages. Participants also brainstorm an engagement scenario and identify next steps to put their plans into action. This workshop is designed for scientists and engineers who don’t have much experience with public engagement, although experienced engagers may find it useful.
35	Fdn for PT Research	Liz Jackson	Outside vendor	Engaging the Public with Social Media	Webinars	The three-hour Engaging the Public with Social Media module guides scientists and engineers through reflection on the state of the evolving social media landscape and their roles in it. Appropriate for both novices and those who are already using social media, participants evaluate their online presence and think critically about how they can use social media to accomplish their public engagement goals. This module combines instruction, guided discussion and individual and group activities and culminates with participants developing comprehensive social media public engagement plans.
36	Parkinson's Foundation	Svetlana Cvejic	Outside vendor	Scientific communications	In-person workshop	Communication strategies for audiences of all ages, education levels, and areas of expertise.
37	BrightFocus Foundation	Diane Bovenkamp	BrightFocus Foundation (with invited scientific co-chairs and expert speakers)	"BrightFocus Alzheimer's Fast Track" workshop, networking, elevator pitch and mock grant proposal training--we also offer similar Glaucoma Fast Track and Macular Fast Track	Annual--pre-COVID was in person 3 day meeting. December 2021 was first virtual meeting (used outside vendor to create web/virtual component). Had 60 immersive students, and also anyone around the world could view the first two days of presentations. We also waived registrtation fees for those who self-identified as underrepresented minority. We had people from 20 countries around the world participating. Will post videos on website/youtube soon. program/biosketch/photo book pdf downloadable (detailed description, agenda, speakers, immersive experience students)	The Alzheimer’s FastTrack workshop is designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or other early-career scientists focused on Alzheimer’s disease research to participate in an immersive learning experience that accelerates their knowledge, expertise, and visibility in this exciting field.
38	Parkinson's Foundation	Svetlana Cvejic	Outside vendor	Science management skills	In-person workshop	Leadership and management skills
39	BWF	Victoria McGovern	BWF	grantwriting	online resource
40	BWF	Victoria McGovern		lab management	online resource
41	BWF	Victoria McGovern		tenure	online resource
42	BWF	Victoria McGovern		communication	online resource
43	Parkinson's Foundation	Svetlana Cvejic	Internally	proposal review	Postdocs are trained in a review process including participating in review meetings	Postdocs reviewing Summer Student (undergrad) applications
44	Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation	Eileen Melnick	Internally	Grant Writing Webinar Series	Synchronous and online resource	The resources available are based on content from the ASCO Annual Meeting education program sessions and are designed to help applicants learn more about available funding opportunities and gain a competitive edge in the grant application process.
45	Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation	Eileen Melnick	Internally	Scientific and Career Development Retreat	In-person (converted to virtual in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID)	The Retreat is designed to foster scientific interaction and communication among Conquer Cancer grant and award recipients. The program includes oral and/or poster presentations on Conquer Cancer funded research and career development discussions.
46	Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation	Eileen Melnick	Internally	Mentorship	Virtual and in-person	ASCO mentoring initiatives aim to pair participants with a mentor to support individual learning, growth, and professional development needs. ASCO offers a wide variety of mentoring, including long-term and situational mentoring for both international and domestic participants across multiple populations and career stages.
47	BrightFocus Foundation	Diane Bovenkamp	BrightFocus organized	Scientific expert presentations, networking, elevator pitches	BrightFocus Glaucoma Fast Track 1 day meeting is pre-conference in-person meeting associated with the in-person biannual ISER/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium 4 day meeting. We pay for all travel fellows who had their abstract accepted into the main meeting to addend the GFT for free. All others attending the meeting can pay to attend. Record all talks and provide free online. Refer to these videos in glaucoma grant application instructions to refer to before applying.	to accelerate the fight for a cure by investing in promising young scientists in the field of vision research. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, or other early-stage scientists focused on glaucoma research, or those who want to enter the field, took advantage of this unique opportunity to accelerate their path towards becoming an expert in this exciting field by: immersing themselves in the background knowledge and latest discoveries in glaucoma research connecting with preeminent glaucoma experts and fellow early-stage researchers based in the U.S. and around the world engaging in scientific debates
48	CSR	Alice Luo Clayton (mentioned it)	National Institutes of Health	reviewing	Program within NIH - probably virtual	Training on how to become a reviewer
49	V Foundation for Cancer Research	Carole Wegner	internally	V Scholar Summit- professional development	Annual meeting of early career faculty to exchange ideas, share research and have career development talks	V Scholar Summit - Includes expert talks for grant writing, lab hiring, working with advocates, science communication, Mentoring Panel of accomplished previous V Scholars, iposters sessions to share research with one another, multiple networking, opportunities
50	V Foundation for Cancer Research	Carole Wegner	external Vendor- Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science	Science Communication at V Scholar Summit	Communication workshops of various lengths using improv techniques to create awareness and better communication skills to non-peer audiences	Trainers use improviization techniques to create awareness around effective communication and better communication skills to non-peer audiences
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