Are You an Underrepresented Minority in a STEM Field?

Use code DIVERSITY-10 at checkout for 10% off your purchase.

Checkout now

Course Description

You mastered the R series and are dreaming of an institutional training grant to attract the most highly qualified trainees. How do you begin? A T32 grant is among the most prestigious to land, and among the trickiest to write. How do you choose a relevant, innovative topic, or cohesive faculty? How does one structure the curriculum? What strategies should one employ to evaluate a program like this? And how do you fill out all those onerous data tables? We will walk you through the steps of preparing for and writing a competitive T32 grant application.

If you have questions about your specific application or circumstances, please come to one of our live sessions (bi-weekly live Q & A, First Fridays office hours, and Bootcamps) to discuss with Dr. Bouvier. These 1:1 live opportunities are included in your Membership. 

Updated:  March 31, 2026

Preview an Excerpt of This Course

Course Details

Who:  For those preparing to write an NIH T-series submission and the people who advise them.

When:  Available on demand

Cost:  $1500 

Summary of Course Sections

Chapter 1. Planning Your Program

When are you ready for T32? How do you choose one? How do you prepare in order to optimize your chance of success? We will discuss when to consider writing a T32, how to identify a topic area that fits the strengths and needs of your group, how to identify optimal MPIs and mentors, and ways to think about formulating a strong curriculum. We will emphasize how and from whom to elicit feedback on your ideas and plans before moving ahead with writing. We offer a task list for administrators and a draft timeline and milestones.


Chapter 2. Writing the Research Training Program 

The 25-page Research Strategy of a T32 must describe a compelling training program, supported by the data tables. Step by step, we discuss tips and strategies for writing each section and filling out each table, emphasizing areas that are often criticized by reviewers and how to write them persuasively. Emphasis is be placed on winning strategies we’ve seen on successful applications. 


Chapter 3. Writing the Plan for Instruction in Responsible Conduct of Research, Plan for Instruction in Methods for Enhancing Reproducibility, and Letters of Support; Mistakes Commonly Made on T32 applications

We will wrap up with tips and strategies for writing the Plan for Instruction in Responsible Conduct in Research and the important Plan for Instruction in Methods for Enhancing Reproducibility. We describe key items to ensure go into your support letters. We will conclude with a presentation of the 12 most common mistakes we see on T32 Summary Statements, and the successful “fixes” our clients have used to overcome these criticisms.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 3 hours 8 minutes of coursework, you will be able to:

  1. Identify and employ crucial steps to take to prepare to write an NIH institutional training grant application
  2. Acquire key information about effective NIH writing strategies
  3. Apply NIH effective strategies to writing and revising a draft submission
  4. Utilize learned skills to critique peer drafts to hone their own skills
  5. Develop better grantwriting skills that will carry forward on all submissions, whether to NIH or other funding agencies

Content Disclaimer

Course content updated March 31, 2026. Content of this course was updated and re-recorded on this date. To our knowledge, the content was accurate at that time. We recommend that you search for changes that may have occurred to the content since the recording date. Note that the course title may have been modified slightly since the recording. 

What our clients say

I wish I would have participated in this training prior to submitting our T32 in May 2023. I would have structured our submission differently.

Colleen McMullen
Editorial Officer Clinic, Internal Medicine-Cardiology
The University of Kentucky College of Medicine