Getting My Team Together
I am in the final thoughts of getting my team together. I start with my past team and determine what continuing expertise I need. I then write approach each about being on the grant – I don’t make assumptions that because they were on the last one that they will be on this one. Then, I think about what new expertise I need. By the way, I have the following caution – be careful about agreeing or asking someone new to be a collaborator from just a discussion with them. Often they are nice, personable – feel like a kindred soul – and you ask them and then you find out that on paper they don’t look so good – haven’t had a pub in 5 years, etc. You need to have a good team of investigators (it is one of the review criteria), so don’t make the mistake I have before and end up with people who won’t be good for the grant application success. I usually do a pub med search or ask for their biosketch before I sign them on to the project. Anyway, my team is together – I have a cardiologist, an exercise physiologist, a systems engineer, an economist, and a statistician.
By the way - for those of you who are new to grantsmanship - I still make "cold calls" to people who I don't know when I am looking for new expertise on a research project. The good news in that we usually get a good response from people when asked to help on a research project - they agree or they give you ideas of someone else who may be a better fit.
Comments
Posted by: Danielle
Posted on: January 9, 2010 07:21 PM
Wow 7 weeks - good luck! I was very interested to read about how you find expertise. Do you find it better to work with people who are more "local" so you can meet in person? Or with technology these days, does distance not matter so much?