The only weekly live broadcast that puts real grants in front of real experts — and tears them apart in public, so your researchers stop learning from rejection.
The average NIH R01 success rate hovers around 20%. That means 80% of applications are rejected — most written by researchers who learned grant strategy through trial, error, and expensive failure.
Workshops use hypothetical proposals. Official guidance is sanitized. One-on-one consultants are expensive and hard to access. Nothing puts a real grant in front of real experts and shows your researchers exactly what a reviewer sees.
Until now.
Grant Lab LIVE does something no workshop, tutorial, or textbook can: it makes the invisible visible. Real proposals. Real reviewer logic. Real consequences — in real time, every week.— The Teaching Studio · Durham, NC · Research Triangle
Grant Lab LIVE is produced at The Teaching Studio in Durham, NC — a broadcast-grade facility purpose-built for live, interactive content. Not a room with a webcam. A real control room, a real set, production values that match the seriousness of the subject.
The show is led by Jon, a broadcast producer with deep live multi-camera expertise, and CJ, a Duke-trained researcher with 15+ years of active NIH grant experience. Between them: the infrastructure to make it look like network television, and the scientific credibility to make it matter.
Grant Lab LIVE launches September 2025. Institutional subscriptions are available now — secure your department's access before the first episode airs.