Report of the 2023-2024 AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee.

ABSTRACT

The 2023-2024 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy Research and Graduate Affairs Committee ("the Committee") was charged with developing programs focused on career and professional development for researchers, new faculty, and graduate students in colleges and schools of pharmacy. After reviewing exiting resources available to pharmacy faculty for grant writing, the Committee recognized a need for more comprehensive, diverse, and tailored resources for pharmacy faculty. The Committee, therefore, focused its effort on creating an intensive grant writing course intended for independent pharmacy researchers without previous major grant awards that would support writing for career development and research grant applications and cater to faculty in translational, clinical sciences, and pharmacy practice, along with fellows and residents. To implement this grant writing course and other programs to advance research progress by pharmacy faculty, the Committee proposes 3 recommendations for consideration by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and 1 suggestion for consideration by colleges and schools of pharmacy.