In managing R01s, it has been a really very interesting lesson, because I’ve had other grants. I’ve had NARSADs, I’ve had very small grants, I’ve had investigator initiated funding from pharma. I’ve done pharma multi-site. I’ve also done studies which have been funded from the state of Texas as well. So, I’ve had a very large range of funding.

The difference in the R01s, I’ve learned a lot of lessons and I think I’m beginning to know how to do it, and that is, you really need a project manager, and it’s one of the key points, is you don’t just need the research coordinator, the data manager. You need somebody who’s going to project manage.

And that person will do things like track all of the federal paperwork, all of the institutional paperwork, does quality control, does oversight quality checks and also makes sure to see whether the R01 is on the train track it needs to be on or if we’re falling behind, those kinds of things. It’s really a full-time kind of position. So, I have one person who is on both. So she’s half-time on one and half-time on the other, and I have a very small group, so that works quite well.