# Intensive Rehabilitation Research Grant Writing Workshops in the United States (TIGRR)

> **NIH NIH R25** · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · 2021 · $157,521

## Abstract

Project Summary
This is a proposal to build the Intensive Rehabilitation Research Grant Writing Workshops in the United States
more commonly known as TIGRR (Training in Grantsmanship in Rehabilitation Research) into a yearlong (12
month) grant writing and career development education program. TIGRR was funded under the T15
mechanism. The T15 mechanism is no longer available to renew the NIH funding for the TIGRR workshop.
We view this as an opportunity to build upon and enhance TIGRR by renewing in the format of a yearlong R25
education program allowing us to more completely build the careers of young investigators by helping them
prepare and submit proposals, and prepare them for success following receipt of grant awards. Research in
Rehabilitation Sciences is critical to health, particularly as relates to aging populations and those with disability
but has lagged other areas of biomedical research. This is due to some extent by a shortage of well-trained
researchers and because mentorship often focuses on clinical aspects of practice and research, rather than on
skills needed to acquire and manage the funding that is required for a successful research career. Ideally,
research training begins in the post-baccalaureate and post-doctoral years. However, many of these potential
investigators begin their rehabilitation careers in the clinical “trenches”. We are proposing a yearlong research
education experience that includes an intensive grant writing program that uses TIGRR workshops (which
have been refined over the course of the past 5 years) as the centerpiece. Unlike passive, entirely didactic
grantwriting training experiences, selected mentees will have intensive one-on-one mentorship including
extensive critiquing of their proposals and will gain hands-on experience with critiquing their peers' proposals.
Building upon the past five years of the successful TIGRR workshops, we will bring together a nationally
recognized group of mentors as faculty for this yearlong program. This yearlong education program will
provide the expertise and support to be successful at the national level in obtaining research grant support and
guidance in management of multiple grants and lab personnel, and to gain experience in critiquing grant
proposals. During the centerpiece workshop, mentees will receive guidance in grant writing, clinical trial
design, biostatistics, informatics, collaboration, grantsmanship, budgeting, and career development through
lectures and individual consultation. One-on-one mentorship is the most important part of the program. We will
be vigilant in our follow-up with mentees and their home institution mentorship team after the workshop to
maximize the chance for success, and then continue to prepare the mentees for submission and/or
resubmission by having grant review panels made up of mentors and mentees. Thus, we will develop a cadre
of well-trained, rehabilitation researchers whose expertise will foster better rehabilitation resea...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10129981
- **Project number:** 5R25HD074546-10
- **Recipient organization:** MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
- **Principal Investigator:** EDELLE C. FIELD-FOTE
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $157,521
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-04-01 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10129981

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10129981, Intensive Rehabilitation Research Grant Writing Workshops in the United States (TIGRR) (5R25HD074546-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10129981. Licensed CC0.

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