Grant Proposal Application
Proposal application for the Mass General Brigham IMPACT (Interdisciplinary Mentorship Program Advising Clinical Trainees) Pain Research Fellowship
Description: The Mass General Brigham Pain Research Fellowship application will ideally present both a career development plan and a research project. Strong career development plans include specific goals (skills, knowledge, experience, and career milestones) and mechanisms to reach them, beyond the performance of research. Research plans may include work on a mentor’s ongoing project, but also should identify a pathway to eventually diverge on an independent path and a project led by the trainee.
In addition to their career and research plans, applicants will be evaluated based on their communication skills, academic accomplishments, dedication, resilience, and letters of support and recommendation from mentors, all of which influence likelihood of success in academia.
Applicants for the Mass General Brigham Pain Research Fellowship will be systematically evaluated by the Executive Committee (Director of the Assessment and Evaluation Team Lasic, program directors Edwards and Schreiber, and several representative mentors).
Research Training Proposal Format
PAGE LIMIT = 4 (excluding cover sheet, references, and supporting materials)
1. Cover Sheet
- Title of project
- Name
- Cell phone #
- Departmental affiliation
- Proposed start date
- Primary research supervisor’s name/address/department/institution/telephone/e-mail address
- Co-primary and other mentors’ names and departmental affiliations
2. Executive Summary (word count:700 or less)
Provide an overview of your background (relevant experience to date), long and short-term goals, and how the training grant support will advance these goals.
- Candidate background: prior clinical, research, and academic experience
- Long-term career goals: kind of research and clinical work envisioned 5-10 years out
- Research goals for training period
3. Training Plan (700 or less):
- Skills and techniques to be learned through mentored research and other career-development activities
- Formal course work, training certificates that will be pursued
- Other research mentors and what they will add
4. Research Project Description (1000 or less):
- Overall goal of research
- Significance: Why project is important (background & rationale)
- Specific aims of the work or hypothesis to be tested
- Research strategy: main outcomes and analytic plan
- Brief description of primary and secondary mentor roles on the project
5. Unique perspectives (250 or less)
If there is an important aspect of your personal background or identity not addressed elsewhere in the application that may illuminate how you could contribute to our research community and that you would like to share with the Committee, we invite you to do so here. Examples might include significant challenges in access to education, unusual socioeconomic factors, or other aspects of your personal or family background to place your prior academic achievements in context or provide further information about your motivation for a career in research or the perspectives you might bring to the research community. Many applicants will not need to answer this question.
6. Supporting Materials
- Letters of support from one previous research supervisor/mentor, and proposed primary mentor. Mentor letters should specify what role they will play in training, collaborative research, and career development, and any time limitations that apply.
- Candidate CV
Send all application material in pdf files to: mcornelius@bwh.harvard.edu
Send all application material in pdf files to: mcornelius@bwh.harvard.edu
