# Institutional Career Development Core

> **NIH NIH KL2** · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $736,201

## Abstract

The program builds on lessons learned from our prior experience in operating a highly successful “small hub”
KL2 program, expands our proven strategies for mentor/mentee training, for enhancing skills in collaboration
and team science, and for engaging potential junior faculty scholars into clinical and translational research before
they would normally be able to compete for a K-funded position. We propose new collaborations with nearby
CTSA Hubs and to continue to design and evaluate novel training experiences to then be shared with the national
CTSA consortium. Our program leverages a meshwork of collaborations with all of the other cores in our
Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Science (GHUCCTS) Hub and is tightly
integrated and synergistic with our TL1 pre- and postdoctoral programs. We draw upon a richly-qualified
applicant pool from Georgetown and Howard Universities and from MedStar Health that is diverse with respect
to prior scientific and professional training, discipline, translational stage(s), research focus, gender, race and
ethnicity. This diversity informs our highly individualized and competency-based training program, anchored by
equally-diverse dual/team mentorship in order to favor the pursuit of collaborative interdisciplinary team science
addressing important health disparities. Our KL2 career development program aims to 1) guide the mentored
research career development of exceptionally-promising junior faculty translational investigators from any
discipline, department, or eligible institution within GHUCCTS; 2) individualize the development and training
plans for each KL2 Scholar, while ensuring a common core of values and behaviors in the responsible conduct
of research, skills in team science, and core competencies in translational research; and 3) enrich the pipeline
and community of junior faculty translational scholars, especially from groups historically underrepresented in
biomedical research, by design and expansion of workshops, courses, mentored experiences and novel training
methods for our scholars and for those not yet ready to compete for KL2 support or in other career pathways, so
that they all may contribute to rigorous and impactful translational research. We propose an evaluation plan that
focused on both program process and outcomes for scholars (during and after training), mentors, curricula,
educational experiences, program leadership and administration along with specific metrics and advisory
committee input in order to favor critical revision and continued improvement of the proposed career
development program.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10148835
- **Project number:** 5KL2TR001432-07
- **Recipient organization:** GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** JASON G UMANS
- **Activity code:** KL2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $736,201
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2015-08-28 → 2025-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10148835

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10148835, Institutional Career Development Core (5KL2TR001432-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10148835. Licensed CC0.

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