As part of Bond LSC’s proposal development team, this role assists principal investigators in finding funding opportunities, preparing competitive proposals, and ensuring the compliance of those proposals. They also liaison with Sponsored Programs throughout the submission process.

Proposal development support includes, at minimum, guideline interpretation, budget development, compiling information, completing forms, internally obtaining approvals and contracting the sponsor, if needed. Given sufficient time, they are able to provide more assistance such as: finding funding opportunities, building teams, developing non-scientific content and editing/proofing the complete proposal.

Julia Rodriguez  has been at Bond LSC since its opening in 2004. She was selected as part of the initial proposal development staff, and has since worked to prepare and submit competitive proposals with each Bond LSC investigator as well as many students and postdoctoral associates.