MC&IP 214Research Grant Writing in Biomedical Sciences
Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Designed for Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology program students. Training in designing, writing, and evaluating research project and fellowship grants. How grant applications are structured and what features contribute to grant application success. How individual research project grants (RO1) and exploratory/development research grants (R21) to National Institutes of Health (NIH) are structured and differ. How applications for predoctoral fellowships from NIH (F31) and American Heart Association (AHA) are organized. Development and writing of students’ own RO1, R21, F31, or AHA grant application.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.