R2G2: Budgeting Basics for Post-Award Management

Struggling with managing your post-award budget component? Want to gain some clarity, especially during these uncertain times? Come join us for a 1hr session to learn all about the post-award budget basics!

About the Presenters:

Tiffany Totman, MBA is an experienced department administrator and research finance manager with expertise managing cooperative agreements and complex financial arrangements. She has years of experience leading teams and managing multi-investigator team science awards. She provides post-award grants management for large, non-routine sponsored projects that require a high-level of acuity and detailed monitoring. She collaborates closely with the PI and others to provide management oversight, including financial analysis of budget-vs-actuals, spending projections, effort and regulatory compliance, reporting to sponsor, and final closeout of award.

Cole Sims is a research administrator with experience in pre-and post-award management. He is trained as an accountant and has worked with a variety of large federal, non-federal, and industry sponsors. Cole has experience in clinical research financial management providing account set-up, post-award administration, reporting and analysis, and closeout of clinical trials. He works closely with the PI, clinical coordinators, and others to provide comprehensive portfolio management in accordance with sponsor requirements and guidelines.

Megan Mayerle, PhD is the Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford, where she oversees administrative, financial, and operational strategy for technology development, research, and education programs that support investigators across campus. She earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF. In 2018, she joined the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, where she led multiple successful institutional training grants, oversaw scientific programming and communications, and mentored trainees and faculty in scientific writing and grant preparation. She then served as Associate Director of Research Development, Finance, and Administration for the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, overseeing finances, research development and grant administration, and space and operations planning while serving as a science writer for the Blau lab. In her current role, Megan partners with scientific leadership to guide long-range planning, manages the Beckman Scientific Technology Cores, and continues to mentor junior researchers and write and edit scientific manuscripts and grant proposals.

Route to Getting Grants (R2G2) is specially designed for early-career faculty at Stanford. Sessions cover all aspects of grant writing, delivered through panel sessions, workshops and focused talks. R2G2 also provides unique networking opportunities, enabling cross faculty collaborations and multidisciplinary partnerships. R2G2 ensures that early-career faculty have all the tools and strategies to lead them to grant success and on to independent research careers.

R2G2 is sponsored by the Stanford School of Medicine’s Grant Writing Academy, Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, and Proposal Development Office.

If you need a disability related accommodation to participate in this event (captioning, sign language interpreting, Braille, etc.), please contact the Diversity & Access Office at disability.access@stanford.edu or 650.725.0326. Requests should be received at least one week prior to the event.