Management
Practicing Project Management: A Case Study, 2005 BWF-HHMI Course in Scientific Management
The ability to allocate resources to achieve a goal is the hallmark of project management. This case study is designed to help you practice the allocation of resources in project management and identify the effects of resource allocation on achieving specific goals. Read through and complete this case study, and examine the final outcome to understand the potential problems and pitfalls that can occur in projects. Through these types of exercises and personal experience you will build an experience base of skills that will help you better manage your own research laboratory.
Statement of Work:
Background. You are an Assistant Professor at Enormous State University (ESU) and perform research on Yersinia pestis (plague) and pulmonary cell interactions. Recently you have found a very interesting proton pump in Y. pestis that when blocked by a drug inhibitor in vitro, kills the bacteria but not human cells in culture (you have a paper submitted on this work). You have been wondering if this drug could be an antidote for a plague infection? The NIH has just released an RFA for “Saving our soldiers from dangerous pathogens” that is due in 13 weeks. This grant could fully fund your lab for five years. Your goal is to prepare yourself for a successful RFA proposal.
Case study: You need to define the scope of the work you would like to achieve to reach your goal. Yet you are constrained by the available research funds and can only choose two of the following for your scope of work.
Scope of work
1) Propose a clinical trial for the existing drug inhibitor to demonstrate its efficacy in stopping Y. pestis.
2) Create additional candidate drugs with similar structure to your inhibitor that have high potential to kill Y. pestis.
3) Make an antibody to pump that will help in pump characterization.
4) Identify gene homologs and physiologic pathways of
The ability to allocate resources to achieve a goal is the hallmark of project management. This case study is designed to help you practice the allocation of resources in project management and identify the effects of resource allocation on achieving specific goals. Read through and complete this case study, and examine the final outcome to understand the potential problems and pitfalls that can occur in projects. Through these types of exercises and personal experience you will build an experience base of skills that will help you better manage your own research laboratory.
Statement of Work:
Background. You are an Assistant Professor at Enormous State University (ESU) and perform research on Yersinia pestis (plague) and pulmonary cell interactions. Recently you have found a very interesting proton pump in Y. pestis that when blocked by a drug inhibitor in vitro, kills the bacteria but not human cells in culture (you have a paper submitted on this work). You have been wondering if this drug could be an antidote for a plague infection? The NIH has just released an RFA for “Saving our soldiers from dangerous pathogens” that is due in 13 weeks. This grant could fully fund your lab for five years. Your goal is to prepare yourself for a successful RFA proposal.
Case study: You need to define the scope of the work you would like to achieve to reach your goal. Yet you are constrained by the available research funds and can only choose two of the following for your scope of work.
Scope of work
1) Propose a clinical trial for the existing drug inhibitor to demonstrate its efficacy in stopping Y. pestis.
2) Create additional candidate drugs with similar structure to your inhibitor that have high potential to kill Y. pestis.
3) Make an antibody to pump that will help in pump characterization.
4) Identify gene homologs and physiologic pathways of