UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS)

我们建议推出CCTS KL2导师职业发展奖学金计划。总体目标是提供 在临床和转化性研究(CTR)方面为初级教员提供严格、多学科、协作的培训。 CCTS KL2计划的具体目标是： 1)从CCTS合作伙伴中确定并招聘最有前途、最多样化的初级教员 网络。我们建议支持5个由4名KL2学者组成的队列，以创造每年8名学者的稳定状态， 得到NCATS资金的支持，并增加了机构承诺。我们的节目将从一个强大的 初步汇集了18名合格的潜在学者(5名代表不足的少数族裔候选人)，每个人 提出了创新的初步研究思路； 2)通过个人、同行和团队促进学者的个性化职业发展 辅导特别侧重于未来赠款的发展，以协助过渡到 独立。我们将利用过去的机构和联邦投资来成功地指导我们 由我们合作伙伴网络中的11个机构支持的项目，拥有87名不同的初级导师 和30名助理导师。网络中的KL2学者将可以使用尖端方法， CTR领域的技术和专业知识，特别是在药物发现、基因组学、高级 成像和比较效果研究。 3)促进密集的教学课程和协作、多学科的体验 CTR方面的培训，重点是美国东南部发病率较高的疾病。我们会 确保每个KL2学者在基础知识方面达到标准的核心能力水平 CTR。我们将为KL2学者和其他初级调查人员提供现场和远程学习活动，并 在伙伴网络内和与CTSA其他中心一起以“小休假”的形式开展课程工作； 4)培育“团队科学”，继续拓展跨机构培训经验 KL2学者和其他初级调查人员。这将包括我们训练有素的人才库的增长 通过我们的辅导课程和导师辅导，在整个网络中提供导师 程序。 通过KL2，我们将在南方腹地创建一个职业发展社区，利用CCTS 合作伙伴网络培训基础设施、资源和丰富活动，在KL2中 程序远远大于各个部分的总和。

We propose the CCTS KL2 Mentored Career Development Scholar Program. The overall goal is to provide rigorous, multidisciplinary, collaborative training for junior faculty in clinical and translational research (CTR). The specific aims of CCTS KL2 program are to: 1) Identify and recruit the most promising and diverse junior faculty from across the CCTS Partner Network. We propose to support 5 cohorts of 4 KL2 Scholars to create a steady state of 8 Scholars/year, supported by NCATS funding with added institutional commitments. Our program will draw from a strong preliminary pool of 18 qualified potential Scholars (5 under-represented minority candidates) who each have proposed innovative preliminary study ideas; 2) Enhance the personalized career development of Scholars through individual, peer and team mentoring particularly focused on future grant development to assist in the transition towards independence. We will leverage past institutional and federal investments in our successful mentoring programs supported by 11 institutions in our Partner Network with a diverse pool of 87 Primary mentors and 30 Associate mentors. KL2 Scholars across the Network will have access to cutting edge methods, technology, and expertise across the CTR spectrum, especially in drug discovery, genomics, advanced imaging and comparative effectiveness research. 3) Stimulate an intensive didactic curriculum and collaborative, multidisciplinary experiential training in CTR with an emphasis on diseases of higher prevalence in the southeast US. We will ensure that every KL2 scholar attains a standard level of core competency in the fundamentals of CTR. We will offer KL2 Scholars and other junior investigators on-site and distance learning activities and coursework in the form of “mini-sabbaticals” within the Partner Network and with other CTSA hubs; 4) Foster “team science” and continue the expansion of cross-institutional training experiences for KL2 Scholars and other junior investigators. This will include the growth of our pool of well-trained mentors across the network through our Entering Mentoring curriculum and Mentoring-the-Mentors programs. Through the KL2, we will create a career development community in the Deep South that will utilize the CCTS Partner Network training infrastructure, resources, and enrichment activities where the “whole” in the KL2 program is much greater than the sum of individual parts.