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This course is required for all students in the Pharmacology graduate program and is designed to provide a mentored opportunity to build grantsmanship skills through direct experience in writing, reading, and reviewing research proposals. During this course, students will be guided through the ins and outs of writing a strong NIH F31-style application, beginning with deciding upon the research topic/question and then writing a truncated grant proposal that contains all of the functional elements. The additional learning goals of the course are to improve communication skills through a series of chalk talks describing their grant objectives and experimental design, learn appropriate procedures in data presentation, data reproducibility, authenticating and validating reagents, data management, and basic statistical analyses. Students will be refreshed in elements for enhancing rigor and reproducibility through use of the 3R modules that are particularly relevant in grant writing (including Experimental Design, Authenticating and Validating Reagents, and Data Presentation). Finally, students will gain critical evaluation skills by reviewing proposals.