Bio: Melanie Steiner (she/her), PhD, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine and Director of Research Development in the Department of Family Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. She received her PhD in the humanities from Cornell University before transitioning to a career in research development. Prior to joining IUSM in 2024, she worked at the University of Utah for 8 years, first in the Office of the Vice President for Research, where she helped interdisciplinary teams of investigators develop multi-project center grants proposals, then in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, where she focused on growing research capacity by building a robust research infrastructure to advance primary care and public health research and scholarship. With expertise in grant writing, research mentoring, and team science, Melanie contributes to several NIH-funded workforce development programs to diversify biomedical research. She was an inaugural fellow in the 2021-22 BRC Fellowship.