# Institutional Career Development Core

> **NIH NIH KL2** · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · 2020 · $435,740

## Abstract

Our Institutional Career Development Core (ICDC) addresses the significant need for developing future clinical
and translational investigators, with emphases on team-based research, entrepreneurial skills, community
engagement, leadership development, and mentorship training, through support of the KL2 mechanism. In our
new CTSA hub, we will build on our hub's successes over the past 10 years, with unique innovative integration
of evolving training approaches, including: 1) mentored career development within CTSA-supported
translational research teams; 2) an emphasis on individual development plans (IDPs) and pre-established
clinical and translational research competencies tailored to the needs of the individual scholar, emphasizing
team-based science; 3) development of leadership competencies through participation in a new Leadership
Challenge Program; 4) an Academy of Research Mentors (ARM), to foster mentoring and mentor training; 5) a
linked institutional Translational Research Scholars Program (TRSP), which provides an expanded peer group
and a wider impact across the institution, as a pipeline for prospective KL2 Scholar applicants; 6) development
of entrepreneurial skills through our Translational Research and Entrepreneurial eXploration (TREx) Program;
7) development of Community Engagement training through our new Community Engagement Core, 8) a focus
on Informatics education and training, and 9) collaboration and dissemination of program experience to other
CTSA hubs in the Texas Regional CTSA Consortium, and the greater national CTSA Consortium. An important
feature of our KL2 Scholars Program is its linked position within the continuum of career development, from
graduate student training in our TL1 Training Core to the production of independently funded clinical and
translational faculty members. Our program is enhanced with financial support from our Provost's office for
scholar and programmatic research expenses, education administrators, the ARM, and our Office of Faculty
Affairs and Professional Development. UTMB also ranks nationally in promoting diversity, which will enhance
our recruitment of underrepresented minority scholars by the participation of faculty from our Hispanic Center
of Excellence, and our Medical School Enrichment Program. Our KL2 Scholars Program is well-integrated with
other institutional education activities, including our Human Pathophysiology and Translational Medicine
graduate program, with courses targeted toward scientific writing, biostatistics, and study design. Early-career
faculty as TRSP scholars can compete to become CTSA-supported KL2 Scholars, and with acquisition of their
first independent (e.g. R01) funding, scholars advance to become independent investigators and members of
the ARM. We project continuously supporting 2 KL2 Scholar slots for a period of up to 3 years per slot, over
the cycle duration of the project, and we intend to include externships as part of our Proposed Novel Training.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10101771
- **Project number:** 2KL2TR001441-06
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
- **Principal Investigator:** BILL T AMEREDES
- **Activity code:** KL2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $435,740
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2015-08-18 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10101771

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10101771, Institutional Career Development Core (2KL2TR001441-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10101771. Licensed CC0.

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