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Podcast: Significant Impact: from K Award to Your First Big R01
Episode: Featured K to R Essentials Graduate: Sunny Lin, PhD
Description: What do you do when a grant that anchors your research disappears overnight? We sit down with Sunny Lin, PhD to explore the real work of rebuilding after a canceled K Award. Our conversation moves through the full arc of the K-to-R journey. We talk candidly about the moment a career plan implodes, why grief is not a distraction but a tool for clarity, and how momentum returns when you name what you lost. Sunny shares the practical pivots that kept the research alive, while staying firmly grounded in mission and values. For first-generation academics and introverts, c...