The Scientific Architecture of Fundable Research — And Why Imagination Is the Engine Behind It

Discover the deeper structure that makes a proposal fundable — and learn how to use imagination as the catalytic first step in building ideas reviewers want to champion.

Time & Date

Tuesday, December 9th at 1:00 p.m. MT
(12:00 p.m. PT/3:00 p.m. EST)

Researchers: Free Workshop

For researchers stuck in the grant rejection cycle

Reserve Your Spot

"They [the reviewers] need to feel their time wasn't wasted—that's something I really like about this process."

Dr. Alejandra Medida Rivera

Associate Professor at Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación Sobre el Genoma Humano - UNAM · Mexico

What You'll Discover in This Webinar

What distinguishes a fundable scientific mental model from an ordinary approach — with concrete examples that show the difference reviewers can immediately sense.

How imagination creates the space of possibilities your reasoning cannot access — the counterintuitive truth about why logic must follow, not lead, in developing breakthrough research.

The vital connection between a clear model and the right aims — how getting your "what" component right naturally reveals what your aims should be.

Why this is the most fundamental element of grant success — if there were only one thing to teach from 16 years of grant strategy work, this would be it.

What to Expect...

This is a focused teaching workshop - one hour of content that gets straight to the most fundamental element of grant success. No fluff. Bring your questions.

This workshop is for you if:

You’re an early-to-mid career researcher submitting to NIH, NSF, DOD, or similar funders in US, Europe, Canada, or other.

You’ve had proposals rejected and aren’t sure what’s really missing.

You want to understand the foundation of what makes grants fundable, not just surface fixes.

This workshop isn’t for you if:

You want to learn how to make weak science sound impressive.

You’re looking for templates and tricks, not fundamental transformation.

You think grants are about packaging, not about developing genuinely strong research.

“The thing I’m really stoked about is that, before actually meeting with you, I couldn’t see how the key part of my research would fit into the proposal. I was close to dropping it altogether because it was too difficult to explain in this context. Now, with where we’ve landed on the Big Idea, it all fits together—both the innovative approach and the core goals for my research, and I’m actually very, very happy.

This is why we do what we do"

Dominique Pritchett

Assoc. Professor at Howard University

About the Instructor...

Dr. Morgan Giddings

For 16 years, I’ve helped researchers solve the same problem: they can’t get funded because they’re missing the foundation that makes science fundable.

Most researchers skip straight to methods and data without ever developing a clear scientific model—the “what” that determines whether reviewers get excited about your work.

During my career, including my time as a tenured associate professor at UNC Chapel Hill, I secured $23M+ in funding. At SCI•Foundry, I’ve taught hundreds of researchers these same principles.

This workshop teaches the most fundamental piece: how imagination creates the models reviewers want to fund.

Dr. Morgan Giddings is a third-generation scientist, CEO of SCI•Foundry, and has helped hundreds of clients secure major federal research funding in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and South America.