R2G2: Budgeting Basics for Pre-Award Management

Struggling with understanding everything that goes into pre-award budget management? Want to gain some clarity, especially during these uncertain times? Come join us for a 1hr session to learn all about the pre-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.

Kristin Smith brings years of experience in pre-award grants administration to the Team Science Initiative. She is the administrative contact throughout the proposal process which includes review of the funding announcement to identify specific terms and conditions, building timelines and checklists to keep the proposal process on track, and ensuring documents are compliant with sponsor requirements. Kristin works closely with the PI, Research Process Manager, Grants and Contracts Officer, and the team to keep everyone focused on timely progress, and assembles final documents for upload to sponsor portal. She has successfully submitted large, complex, programmatic grants from a variety of sponsors and enjoys being involved in collaborative and meaningful projects.

Megan Mayerle, PhD  is the Associate Director of Research Development, Finance, and Administration for the Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology. Dr. Megan Mayerle earned her PhD at Johns Hopkins University researching ribosome assembly in bacteria. Dr. Mayerle then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Christine Guthrie at University of California, San Francisco before joining Stanford as a Grant Writer and Project Coordinator at the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute. Now as the Associate Director of Research Development, Finance and Administration, Dr. Mayerle drafts and edits scientific manuscripts, grants, and other documents as well as provides budgetary, operational, and administrative oversight.

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.