Team Science
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Research Development
Since 2009, Mike has helped hundreds of faculty across the Stanford School of Medicine find funding opportunities and apply for them, resulting in nearly $400 million in new funding from federal and foundation sponsors, including the Stanford CTSA, Stanford Diabetes Research Center, Stanford Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, SPHERE Center, and many others. He has received funding from NIH as a PI and served on an NIH study section.
Research Administration
Rebecca Geraldi
Administrative Associate
Rebecca works with the Department of Medicine Chair’s Office and provides administrative support to Team Science and Faculty Development Initiatives. She is a passionate communicator and marketing professional, with a deep commitment to her work. Rebecca is proud and excited to help move forward the important and meaningful efforts of team science.
Cole Sims
Cole 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.
Kristin Smith
Kristin 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.
Tiffany Totman, MBA
Tiffany 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.
Katie Wu, CRA
Katie is a pre-award and post-award specialist with experience supporting large, complex federal and non-federal proposals. She works closely with the team to organize and maintain document collection timelines and checklists, review documents for compliance in accordance with sponsor guidelines, and achieve the overall administrative aims of the proposal. In addition, Katie supports post-award management and works closely with the team to support faculty with large, non-routine sponsored projects that are managed through the Team Science Initiative central office.
Grant Writing
Nicole has been at Stanford in the School of Medicine in the Department of Neurology since 2018 helping manage, coordinate, and develop proposals for several NIH-funded trials in neurodegenerative and neuromuscular disease populations. In addition to grant writing for Team Science, she is a data and imaging research scientist in the Day Lab led by Dr. John W. Day, MD, PhD, continuing to explore neurological disease with the hopes of obtaining a PhD in the future.
Jennie has experience working for both research centers and local health departments. She has helped write NIH and foundation grant proposals, worked in project coordination for CDC and NIH grants, and co-authored eight manuscripts. Her primary research interests are in colorectal cancer prevention and screening, childhood obesity, and health disparities.
