In FY23, $28.3 billion in federal research grants was awarded to fully-accredited U.S. MD-granting medical education programs, marking an 8.7% increase from the previous year and accounting for 14.7% of total U.S. medical school revenue.*
In FY22, over $26 billion in federal research grants were awarded to fully-accredited U.S. MD-granting medical education programs, marking an 8.4% increase from the previous year and accounting for 14.4% of total U.S. medical school revenue.
McAllister & Quinn’s team members have earned their terminal degrees from and subsequently held high-ranking research and leadership positions at R1 and R2 universities or have worked in funding agencies.
Utilizing our experience and knowledge, we partner with medical schools, health science centers, and universities to develop and execute a tailored strategy to broaden and diversify their funding base. We help secure research, training, programmatic and capacity building funding for your priorities.
Our multi-pronged approach blends strategic intelligence, proposal development, and capacity building to position your institution to grow its research portfolio. We are a force multiplier for your in-house research development, sponsored program administration, and grants and contracts teams, delivering powerful insight and research and programmatic development services for competitive federal awards and congressional funding pathways.
360° Federal Funding Support for Schools of Medicine
STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
In an increasingly competitive landscape, schools of medicine can improve their competitive positioning with timely information and deep analysis of federal funding trends and priorities.
Our experts research and analyze legislative activity, agency activity and federal grant programs; inform our clients of anticipated funding opportunities; and provide benchmarking against peer institutions that have successfully competed in past award cycles.
- Benchmarking
- Reports & Analysis
PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT & PROJECT EXECUTION
McAllister & Quinn’s proposal development services ensure a disciplined, comprehensive approach to submitting winning applications.
Our in-house experts and network consultants bring expertise in project management, grantsmanship, federal agencies, red-team and editorial reviews, and team science to support faculty in producing compliant, compelling, and competitive proposals for federal research, training, and program development funding.
- Project Management
- Red Team Reviews
- Editing
- Graphics
CAPACITY BUILDING
McAllister & Quinn works with institutions to build organization-wide capacity for funding success. Our workshops include in-person and virtual training options for individual investigators, cohorts, research teams, and larger groups.
Our in-house experts can also develop customized research ramping profiles to help you build or expand an existing research base to better position your institution to pursue large, complex, center-level funding opportunities that align with your research and clinical strengths, philanthropic goals, and strategic initiatives.
- Faculty Development
- Training
- Career Coaching
Your Federal Funding and Research Development Team
Clients at McAllister & Quinn have access to our team of 100+ in-house professional team members along with our grant consultant network of over 400 subject matter experts. We tailor-build teams to deliver customized support for every phase of your research development needs.
What distinguishes McAllister & Quinn from in-house research development, sponsored program administration, or grants and contracts teams?
Our services can be scaled to your needs. McAllister & Quinn works in partnership to extend the bandwidth of your institutional teams regardless of your needs.
- Project Management and Strategy: We provide pre-award project management, strategy, editing, and review services for large, complex grants such as NIH Program Project Grants/Center Grants and Cooperative Agreements on a project-by-project basis.
- Faculty Development and Training: We comprehensively support medical schools that seek to build capacity and expand their research portfolios through services such as individual investigator coaching and cohort trainings, federal agency engagement guidance, NIH R01-level reviews and edits, as well as submissions to other federal agencies.
What distinguishes McAllister & Quinn from other consulting firms?
While we provide our clients with strategic intelligence on agency funding trends, timely information on current and forecasted funding opportunities, and analysis of federal funding programs, we go beyond providing information and actively work with your internal teams on proposal development to ensure informed, competitive grant submissions. We complement your team’s internal capacity to provide support on grants when you need more bandwidth of specific expertise.
Federal grant consulting is our specialty. We can provide similar services for select state-level and large philanthropic funding opportunities, but our targeted expertise and focus on federal funding sets us apart from broad-brush strategy consulting. In addition, our full-service proposal development services go beyond the scope of firms who only offer federal funding strategy, which is just one of many critical services we provide.