Great Tips from a Symposium for K Awardees

From Mary-Claire Roghmann:

1. Choose your research area, and develop a portfolio of research projects
2. In negotiation to potential collaborators: analyze ahead, and be right upfront. (proactive)
3. Collaborative Opportunities: 1) what is being asked of me. 2) Do I have the expertise required? Is my expertise required? 3) Do I need this to move my research program forward? Will this collaboration generate new opportunities for me? 4) Can I afford being involved in terms of resources and time? 5) Is this someone or a group with whom I want to be involved?
4 Personal Qualities of a Good Collaborator: Fairness, Honesty, Effort, Openness, Reliability, Respect.
5 Send an email to potential collaborators.
6 Document in writing and reach consensus.
7 Develop internal collaborations: someone in the same research area, and with the same methods.

8 So important: be able to describe what you work on in 3 minutes or less (research area, recent paper)
invite yourself to another institution.
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9 Writing a grants: state "you are a good investigator, and you are going to make an impact."

10. independent accomplishment

11. At least one publication relevant to proposed aims of K

12. Publish, one publication without your mentor's name.

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13. Not go every meeting, not review

14. Good mentor: productive, and responsible.

15. Do something that move the field forward

16. Grant writing: minimize the work of the reviewer (refer to another paper)

17. Most important part of grant: abstract.

18. Know --- what is known in the field, and what is not known

19. the reviewers have too many candidates, so you need to capture (their attention).

20. Plan a year ahead.

21. Who pick your track: department chair, dean, faculty member

22. Serendipity: see other people see, and think nobody thought.