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If you are not happy with the results below please do another searchThe open access protocols.io platform makes it easy to share research recipes and to collaborate on method development, both publicly and privately. This free platform addresses lack of reproducibility due to less than helpful materials and methods sections containing instructions like "we used a modified version of a protocol reported previously" or "contact author for details". Lenny Teytelman is the CEO, and Cofounder of protocols.io, and will describe the platform and how can not only improve your grantees’ research workflow but also enhance rigor and reproducibility. We will also hear from Jonah Cool a science program officer at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. CZI is a major... read more →
Collaboration is often the key to scientific success, bringing together individuals with different expertise and skills to advance the field. This type of teamwork can also elevate and improve the efforts of biomedical research grant makers, bringing organizations together toward a common mission. This session will begin with an introduction to HRA’s new “Collaboration Program” that aims to enhance the collaborative behaviors of HRA members. The program’s key activity is a workshop on May 1-2, 2019. Then HRA member organizations will present examples of successful collaborations; one between an HRA member and the public sector and one between two HRA... read more →
Measuring the impact of a non-profit organization’s grants program can be a difficult, and sometimes ambiguous, process. For example, answering a seemingly simple question like, “how successful are we at accomplishing our mission?”, typically results in more questions than definitive or tangible answers. One approach to gauging organizational success is to measure the success of grant recipients that result from an organization’s support. This session will explore how to connect grantees to landmark discoveries in their particular field based on outputs collected from progress reports. In addition, we will look at ways to examine these outputs, either individually or in... read more →
To identify and showcase how organization's resources have made an impact attendees learned how to answer questions such as: Did your funding keep researchers in the field? Has your research impacted policy? Are there links between patents and your funding or publications? Did publications from your research become prominent, widely cited, additions to the literature corpus of our field? Has your work been picked up by the media thus promoting awareness and educating the public? Are your research outputs (e.g., datasets, images) being used by others?
A partnership between HRA and Center for Open Science designed to increase openness, integrity, and reproducibility of research HRA partnered with the Center for Open Science to co-host a December 2016 meeting: Maximizing Research Impact: How Promoting Open and Reproducible Research Helps Funding Organizations Meet Their Mission. The linked Open Science Framework project contains supporting materials for that meeting. Among the highlights from that effort were a few actions funders can do today to increase the impact of the work we support. Preprints Share the COS Preprints service with your organization and encourage your grantees to use this service Launch/support a... read more →
The ORCID US Community team for presented on the benefits of ORCID consortium membership for funders. For example, linking your awards with your awardees’ and reviewers’ ORCID records enables you to: Improve your ability to track the impact of your awards and your awardees, even after the end of the grant term Save time and reduce input errors when filling out forms Better know who your applicants and reviewers are and improve the integrity of your submission, review, and reporting processes Ensure the research you fund reaches its full potential via ORCID’s FAIR-enabled data and infrastructure Help your awardees improve... read more →
In the past, biomedical research grants were often fiscal activities to advance the science in a specific field or area, acting more as simply a funding source than as a program that engages its grantees. Funders have realized that their impact can be enhanced by creating a holistic approach to funding, considering the grantee as part of their community, and providing additional resources that are not directly related to the research, but to the person awarded. This approach not only improves the experience of the grantee but provides opportunities for the grantor without a heavy cost, including communications and advocacy... read more →
Most HRA members fund grants through competitive applications processes. We must sort through the proposals and make decisions on how best to spend our available dollars to achieve the strategic goals of our organization. Most of us use some variation on the process of peer reviews to rank the meritorious proposals selected by the committee into a fundable slate. Some also use an additional interview process after peer review by the committee to finalize the application for funding support, or site-visit, which in recent years may be by video-conference. However, many people are concerned that the review processes do not... read more →