# Career Enhancement Program

> **NIH NIH U54** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $157,434

## Abstract

The NAMDC Career Enhancement Program consists of the following components:
 1. The NAMDC Fellowship Program which offers a unique training opportunity to senior postdoctoral
 clinical fellows who we anticipate will move on to the attending/assistant professor level in an academic
 setting as well-trained clinician scientists. The focus is on translational medicine, teaching of diagnostic
 expertise and the development of clinical trials expertise. We aim to train the first of a new generation of
 clinician scientists who will be well equipped to move the promising new treatments for mitochondrial
 disease into the clinical arena. Ten training sites are collaborating in this program. These sites; Columbia,
 San Diego, Seattle, Cleveland, Hamilton, CHOP, Baylor, University of Colorado, Mayo Clinic and the
 University of Florida are all leading institutions in the field of mitochondrial medicine. World renowned
 faculty are to be found at each site. Our current fellow will and 2 prior fellows have participated in RDCRN
 training course where they present a summary of their work.
 2. The fellowship program is held together by telemedicine conferences involving all consortium sites with
 monthly Zoom video conferencing. These conferences are well attended by faculty, students and NIH
 representatives. Participation is offered to RDCRN trainees.
 3. Career enhancements include (A) The addition of a didactic core lecture series on Clinical Trial readiness
 which will be available as an online lecture series. Dr. Peter Stacpoole at the University of Florida has
 volunteered to head this course development. He has many years of NIH and industry sponsored clinical
 trials experience. (B) The directors of the 10 Career Enhancement Sites have agreed to post a
 comprehensive series of lectures on management of mitochondrial disease. (C) The Mitochondrial Medicine
 Society (MMS) is currently developing a series of organ-specific mitochondrial disease lectures to be CME-
 certified by the UMDF and made available on-line.
 4. Funds to be provided by the UMDF will be used to attract young physicians, medical students, MD/PhD
 students and recent graduates heading to medical school to the field of mitochondrial medicine. We plan to
 provide $20K individual grants annually to candidates in 2 of our NAMDC Career Enhancement Sites.
 Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of Site Directors along with the UMDF grant review process. In
 addition, an annual retreat will take place on the day following the UMDF annual meeting where the
awardees and the NAMDC fellow can interact with and present their work to the site directors.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10023972
- **Project number:** 5U54NS078059-10
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** RICHARD H HAAS
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $157,434
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2011-09-30 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10023972

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10023972, Career Enhancement Program (5U54NS078059-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10023972. Licensed CC0.

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