Shizhen “Jeff” Wang recently received the R01 grant, a research project award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will support his research for up to four years with about $1.3 million.
Wang credits the 威尼斯人娱乐城 Center for Advancing 教师 Excellence (CAFÉ) program for help in securing the funds.
The CAFÉ program is currently in its second year. 通过在四大支柱（教学和学习，服务和参与，研究和创造力以及教师生活和领导）下提供全面的资源和支持，该计划旨在促进教师卓越。
研究和创造的资源之一包括讲习班。 在Wang参加的研讨会上，Chris Liu博士，Yong Zeng博士和Alexis Petri博士分享了他们申请联邦资助的经验，更重要的是，作为资助审稿人。
“This was especially helpful for me as a junior faculty member without grant-reviewing experience. Developing the ability to write grant applications from the standpoints of reviewers is a key point to impress scientific reviewers and get their endorsements on my research project,” Wang said.
The CAFÉ workshop that Wang attended also featured experienced senior faculty Mark Johnson, Ph.D., professor at the 威尼斯人娱乐城 School of Dentistry. 他的演讲关于准备令人信服的NIH拨款申请，以及与项目官员沟通以获得他们帮助和支持的有效方法，对王准备拨款摘要提案非常有帮助。 Feedback from other workshop attendees and the seed money that supported Wang’s quest to obtain his research’s preliminary data were additional benefits the CAFÉ workshop provided him as he worked on his grant application.
The grant will help support Wang’s project to understand the structure, function and drug modulation of cardiac voltage-gated sodium channel Nav1.5.
Wang’s lab will research how the Nav1.5 channel opens or closes in response to electrical stimuli and how genetic mutations alter the structure and function of the Nav1.5 channel that could lead to life-threatening diseases. 这些研究将为开发具有更高特异性的治疗心律失常的新型药物分子铺平道路。