TLP #17 : Brothers in arms : building a collective grant-writing community - Matthew Weitzman

• Matthew comments on the usefulness of healthy competition in science
• Matt compares the joy of running a lab to cooking in the kitchen
• He loves the flexibility of science and constantly stimulated by interactions with colleagues and young scientists and new ideas
• Matt makes a strong argument for peer-to-peer mentoring, cascade mentoring and seizing constant casual mentoring opportunities
• He comments on the advantages of going to a small lab for graduate school and he advises students to look carefully at the type of scientific questions, the environment of the lab and the chemistry of the PI/mentor relationship
• Matt describes his pioneering Grant Proposal Success (GPS) grant-writing program and the importance of collective, grant-writing communities. Matt dissects the grant structure and tells us what funding committees are looking for
• He suggests that staggering projects and having work at different stages can help to integrate life and manage the lab

• University of Leeds, UK : https://www.leeds.ac.uk/
• University of Pennsylvania : https://www.upenn.edu/
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) : https://www.chop.edu/
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) : https://www.nih.gov/
• Salk Institute for Biological Studies : https://www.salk.edu/
• University of California San Diego : https://ucsd.edu/

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To find out more about Renaud and Jonathan :

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• Twitter : https://twitter.com/Epigenetique
• LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanweitzman/%20

More about the soundtrack :
Music by Amaria - Lovely Swindler https://soundcloud.com/amariamusique/