The Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium’s Research Development Office (RDO) provides grant-focused support to Consortium members for the purpose of advancing cancer-focused research. The scope of the RDO’s assistance spans the entire grant application process, from opportunity scouting to submission. Our goal is to enable investigators to achieve their potential by helping them to strategically expand their capacity and overcome the barriers often associated with interdisciplinary, large-scale, and/or interinstitutional work.
Led by Dr. Kris Blair, the Cancer Consortium’s RDO specializes in large, collaborative multi-project submissions, including (but not limited to) P50 (SPORE), U54, and P01 grants. We work one-on-one with faculty to assess their grant-related needs, connect them and their teams with useful resources, and develop a tailored approach to the grant development process.
Offerings and Support Include:
- Project management
- Proposal development
- Coordination and consultation with research administration and scientific leaders
- Scientific writing and editorial services; producing graphics and figures
- Maintaining a boilerplate and repository of curated grantsmanship aids
- Drafting letters of support
- Enhancing collaboration and team science
- Grantsmanship services (critical high-level review; formatting)
Research Development support is available to all Cancer Consortium members; however, priority is given to faculty and teams working to submit cancer-focused, multi-project collaborative grants
In addition to providing specialized support to Consortium members, the RDO also curates and maintains a library of boilerplate grant language that is available to faculty at all Consortium institutions upon request.
About the Team
Kris Blair
Research Development Specialist
Originally from the Midwest, Kris attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, where he earned a BS in Microbiology. Kris then worked professionally for seven years as a Lab Manager and Research Associate in the Kearns lab in the IU Department of Microbiology. In 2011, Kris moved to Seattle to attend graduate school at the University of Washington in the Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD Program at Fred Hutch. While at Fred Hutch, he trained in Nina Salama’s lab investigating the molecular mechanisms that underlie bacterial cell-shape determination in Helicobacter pylori. After a short postdoc in the Microbiology & Immunology Department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, he has returned to Seattle where he now leads the Cancer Consortium's Research Development Office.
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Questions?
Contact Kris Blair with questions, or to schedule a consultation to learn more about how RDO can support your work.