Strategic support for research grants
The Office of Research Development collaborates with researchers across the Cleveland Clinic to facilitate the development of competitive grant proposals, communicate funding opportunities, and advance collaboration and team science. Contact us for more information on our grant proposal initiatives.
What We Do
We enable the development of competitive, large-scale grant proposals through expert guidance in grantsmanship, project management, and visual communication. Our team manages limited submissions, internal funding programs, and strategic research initiatives. We also provide tools, resources, and educational programming to help investigators identify aligned funding opportunities and craft compelling proposals.
Please contact Nicole Brey, Administrative Director, for additional information.
Proposal development
- Pre-proposal Strategy
- Scientific & Non-Scientific Content Development
- Administrative Guidance
- Proposal Management
Funding opportunities
- Curated Funding Opportunities
- Pivot Funding Search Tool Subscription
- Limited Submission Opportunities
- Internal Funding Programs
Education & training
- Live NIH Grant Writing Course
- On-Demand Grant Writing Course Subscription
- Proposal Development Program
- Webinars & Workshops
ORD collaborates with Cleveland Clinic Research teams to strategize, coordinate, and develop highly competitive research grant proposals. Support is individualized to each team and proposal's needs. Our portfolio includes single and multi-investigator proposals to federal funders (eg, NIH, DoD, NSF, AHRQ) and large-scale proposals to foundations (eg, AHA, PCORI).
ORD curates and distributes extramural biomedical research funding opportunities, runs limited submission competitions, and manages internal funding programs for Cleveland Clinic investigators to identify and pursue opportunities of interest.
ORD Internal Funding Portfolio
ORD manages every step of three select internal research funding competitions, including RFP dissemination, internal review, award management, and progress reporting for Cleveland Clinic investigators. These programs are the Research Accelerator, high-risk/high-reward single PI projects, Co-Laboratories, multiple PI research projects to initiate new collaborations, and Centers of Excellence, collaborations of laboratory and clinical researchers focused on advances in disease-based discovery, diagnosis, and therapy.
Outcomes of ORD Internal Funding Portfolio: $18.7M in internal funding has been awarded through this portfolio since 2017; $91M in extramural awards have been attributed to this internal funding.
Internal funding across Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland Clinic supports over 25 internal research funding programs, including, but not limited to, Caregiver Catalyst and Spark awards, Velosano Cancer Research awards, Hickey Innovation awards, and Healthcare Delivery & Implementation Science pilot awards.
Limited Submission Program
ORD manages all aspects of the Limited Submission Opportunities process including curation and announcement of opportunities, internal competition to identify the strongest proposal(s) for nomination, and post-nomination project management and proposal development.
Limited Submission Outcomes: Cleveland Clinic Researchers have received 24 limited submission awards totaling over $8.3M since 2018.
ORD develops, manages, and sponsors training and education for Cleveland Clinic investigators on a broad range of grant-related topics. Live and on-demand NIH grant writing courses include topics such as R01 and K proposal development, budget creation for competitive funding, and human subjects forms. Webinar topics include funding resources, such as Pivot and Dimensions, federal policy changes and implementation via notices and forms updates, and various topics around proposal strategy.
We hold 10+ courses and webinars per year for an audience of over 350 attendees at no cost to research personnel.
Outcomes
Since 2018, the Office of Research Development has assisted with:
Our Resources
ORD provides resources and tools to assist Cleveland Clinic Investigators with extramural research grant preparation. These can be found on our intranet site (ord.lerner.ccf.org) and include a comprehensive library of grant-related resources, grant policy updates, curated extramural research funding announcements, and educational opportunities.
Our resource library includes:
- Examples of successful NIH grants
- Graphics sample library
- Templates of grant components
- Internally developed guidance documents
Search tools include:
- Pivot extramural funding search database
- Curated funding lists
- Dimensions research analytics tool
About Us
The Cleveland Clinic Office of Research Development includes research development professionals with varied backgrounds and roles who come together to support proposal development, funding opportunities, and education / training for basic, translational and clinical researchers across the enterprise.
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Administrative Director
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Program Manager
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Research Development Scientist
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Interim Director
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Administrative Program Coordinator
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ORD-OSRP Liaison
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Program Manager
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Visualization Specialist
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Research Development Scientist
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Data Analyst
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Work with Us
Cleveland Clinic investigators can find ORD services and resources at ord.lerner.ccf.org (internal access only.)
Others interested in operations or services should contact Nicole Brey, Administrative Director.