Beyond the bench: teaching grant writing in immunotherapy training
Graham Leggatt1, Janin Chandra1, Zhian Chen1
1Frazer Institute, Faculty of Health Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland 4102, Australia.
Trends in Immunology
|May 20, 2026
Abstract:
Grant writing is a career-defining skill that most researchers learn too late and without formal training. Here, we describe the integration of a structured, discipline-specific grant writing workshop into a postgraduate immunotherapy course and show that it measurably improved student confidence, funding literacy, and practical readiness.
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