Self-Paced Proposal Bootcamp (BIOS 299)

March 30-June 3, 2026

Time TBD

Clinical Fellows
Faculty
Graduate Students
Instructors
Medical Students
Postdocs

Registration for this Spring Bootcamp (March 30 – June 3, 2026) is currently closed. Add your name to our interest form (click here) and we will email you when registration is available.

Our next Self-Proposal Bootcamp will be in Autumn 2025 (September 22 – November 21, 2025].

You will have at your fingertips all of our amazing grant writing resources!

Why Join our Proposal Bootcamp?

To increase your potential for success! Prior Proposal Bootcamp participants had almost double the proposal success rates as non-Bootcamp trainees!

Check out our published outcomes in PLOS ONE.

Our Self-Paced Proposal Bootcamp includes:

Overview of grant writing fundamentals for fellowships & career development awards
Tips & resources for writing compelling grants delivered through text & videos
Grant writing tips delivered directly to your in-box each week

Who this is for:

Graduate Students
Postdocs
Instructors
Clinical Fellows
Staff

This Bootcamp is only available to Stanford affiliates at this time.

Graduate & Medical Students:

Please register using the link above and then we will email you a permission code to register for BIOS 299 in Axess. The course is credit / no credit. A Satisfactory grade for BIOS 299 registered students requires: completing the modules in Canvas and participating in the weekly meetings with a Grant Coach.

Comments from our participants:

“The deadlines forced me to think about my drafts and writing a compelling grant in a timely manner. Otherwise, I would have crammed it into 2-3 weeks before the deadline.”

“The peer review process helped me see my proposal through the eyes of a critical reviewer”

“It improved my writing skills”

“I really appreciated the grant coach office hours”

“Meeting up with other people that were ‘in the same boat’ as me was helpful”

Helpful resources:

Our resources use NIH Fellowships (F99/K00, F30, F31, F32, etc.) and Career Development Awards (K99/R00, K08, K23, K01, K22, K25, etc.) as examples.

Offered Next:

This Bootcamp is offered in the Autumn and Spring quarters. This bootcamp will be offered next in Autumn 2025.

Other relevant Proposal Bootcamps:

Questions?

For more information, please contact Crystal Botham, PhD.

Did you know? Our Proposal Bootcamp was honored with an Innovations in Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)! The award highlights innovations in PhD, MD-PhD, and postdoctoral education and training, or early career development that enhance the institutional research mission. We have been featured as Nature‘s Quote of the Day: “Done right, grant writing can reconnect you with the joy that led you to become a scientist in the first place.”

Accommodations:

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.