Four UNM faculty and staff members will spend their summer learning how to write research grants for proposals funded by the National Institutes of Health. In turn they will act as a resource for faculty and staff members who are seeking grants from NIH.
It’s part of a joint Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program to improve grant awards to Hispanic serving institutions like UNM.
Celia Iriart, assistant professor of Family and Community Medicine; Karlett Parra, assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Lisa Cacari-Stone, lecturer in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Marcos Garza, a contract and grants administrator for the Office of the Vice President for Research, will all travel to San Antonio, Texas and Bethesda, Maryland this summer for a series of workshops to help them hone their grant-writing skills.
Their training will be complete by fall.