I heard a great presentation yesterday from Vafa Kamali, Director of University Research Centers. He met with the Executive Cabinet and provided information about K-Series Career Development Awards. These NIH sponsored awards give support to research initiatives for graduate students, new faculty and senior faculty. These are exciting opportunities.
Vafa and his small but energetic CREATeS staff have evolved into a successful "proposal factory" in a very short time. As a result of their work, over the past 13 ½ months USM has received $14.6 million in external funds as a result of grant applications developed, facilitated and improved.
For more information, contact vafa.kamali@usm.edu.