FAQ

Answer – There’s no right answer – the number and roster of participating faculty is customized to each training program. Considerations include: the targeted learning population, the roles of participating faculty (primary mentors, teaching, trainee applicant pool), a balance of academic rank, diversity, content expertise. Quality over quantity should be an operating principle as well.

Answer – The “Other” role is commonly used for faculty who will only participate as ‘instructional’ faculty who run a specific training module(s) in your training program. This role is useful for faculty running (e.g. genomics, x-ray or biostatistics facilities/services) with expertise of unique value to the proposed training program.

Answer – Only those grants where the faculty member is in the “PD/PI” or “Project Lead” role are acceptable.

In addition, we recommend most of your core participating faculty be NIH funded at the R01 level with funding into the first 2 years of the training program operation.

Answer – applications pending review, administrative or competitive supplements, and awards in no-cost extension status are to be excluded from Table 4.

Imminent end dates for awards might be another consideration to include/exclude those faculty whose singular award may have expired by the time the proposal is reviewed.

Answer – Each participating university/organization needs to prepare its own set of data training tables for its participating faculty. A best practice is to separate the sets of data tables for each participating entity must have its own cover sheet (adding relevant notes as needed) and all sets should be combined into a single PDF for submission.

Early drafts of the tables can help inform the narrative, too: for example, one institution may have faculty with more significant extramural funding; while another might have a greater number of experienced faculty in the content area of focus for the proposed training program.  These differences can be highlighted and showcased in the narrative to demonstrate the synergistic strength of the team.

Just reach out to us at training-grants@gsbs.rutgers.edu! Whether you are a first-time education & training program director or proposing a program to a new or different NIH institute, we are here to assist.

We’ve also established two groups – one for current and prospectively interested training grant program directors, the other for administrators – we’d be happy to add you to the distribution lists for both – the administrators share a Teams channel too for one-off questions for one another.

The “MPI” designated research grant (R01) has multiple principal investigators (PI role). Not to be confused with the co-PI role that is not allowed in Table 4. As such, the two (normally there are only 2 PIs sharing the grant) split the total per annum direct costs for the grant.

Every program announcement is different: some offer the MPI option; others do not.