Hot Water Grant Review Workshops
These workshops are overnight, working meetings for those who wish to have their upcoming grant submissions reviewed prior to NIH/NSF deadlines. Typically, this grant review workshop is held one month before major NIH/NSF deadlines: January (February) and May (June). Feedback is constructive, and everyone participates in the discussion of each individual grant. Participants include faculty from basic and applied biomolecular, chemical, cellular, and biomedical sciences, computational biology, and related disciplines at the University of Montana, Montana State University, and other institutions around the state. If this is your first time attending a hot water grant writing workshop, please contact Bruce Bowler prior to registration to ensure we have the capacity to provide a quality review.
Here’s how it works:
- Participants prepare a well-proofed draft proposal (either a full proposal or, for investigators at an exploratory stage, a draft consisting of specific aims and a significance/background/innovation section) two weeks prior to the review session.
- We will use a secure collaborative website to submit draft proposals and download reviews.
- Participants will read and critique up to three proposals from senior and junior investigators (depending on the volume of proposals).
- Each proposal will receive two or more critiques from reviewers. The primary reviewer will summarize the proposal, as would the primary reviewer at a study section. Instructions will be provided on the collaborative website.
- It is critical to the success of Hot Water that all participants who sign up make a strong commitment to attend, submit their proposal or aims on time and review the two to three grants assigned to them.
The next workshop: January 11 - 12, 2024 (Fairmont Hot Springs with Virtual option)