# Future Leaders Advancing Research in Endocrinology (FLARE): Professional Development for Underrepresented Trainees and Junior Faculty

> **NIH NIH R25** · ENDOCRINE SOCIETY · 2021 · $142,146

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The importance of professional development and robust mentoring to ensure successful careers in biomedical
and clinical investigation has prompted the development of trainee-targeted courses and workshops at various
institutions, including professional societies. However, relatively few programs focus on the unique needs of
minorities underrepresented in life sciences. To meet this need, the Endocrine Society developed the Future
Leaders Advancing Research in Endocrinology (FLARE) Program, a multi-faceted training program for
minority graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early stage faculty involved in endocrine-related research.
The objective of the program is to actively foster the continued professional development of these early stage
investigators and trainees to enhance their preparedness for career advancement within research-based
institutions, the scientific community at large and to develop them as leaders within the Endocrine Society.
Program components include a leadership training workshop, a mentoring network to build relationships
between FLARE fellows and dedicated mentors, and a Society-based internship program for the fellows
that includes two components. Fellows participate in a governing committee of the Endocrine Society and
informal mentoring of undergraduate students participating in the Society's summer research fellowship
program and by visiting minority serving institutions to give seminars and to host mentoring workshops. The
FLARE Program also collaborates with other established diversity and outreach initiatives such as the
Keystone Symposia Fellows Program, and Network of Minority Research Investigators of the NIDDK, to provide
additional opportunities for networking and career advancement and to identify mentors and FLARE faculty.
Thus, the FLARE Program provides minority trainees and junior faculty with unique and targeted professional
development and enhancement opportunities that prepares them to succeed and become leaders in biomedical
and clinical research careers.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10144008
- **Project number:** 5R25DK096937-09
- **Recipient organization:** ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
- **Principal Investigator:** E Dale Abel
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $142,146
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-08-01 → 2023-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10144008

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10144008, Future Leaders Advancing Research in Endocrinology (FLARE): Professional Development for Underrepresented Trainees and Junior Faculty (5R25DK096937-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10144008. Licensed CC0.

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