# Core-003

> **NIH NIH UL1** · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $936,843

## Abstract

The Translational Endeavor core provides for developing a translational workforce and for providing an awards
program to enhance research development within OCTRI.
The OCTRI Translational Workforce program includes the highly successful research education and career
development programs developed over the past 15 years. Research training programs have been implemented
specific to the career development phase: undergraduate students; graduate PhD, MD, DMD, and PharmD
students; postdoctoral and clinical fellows; and early faculty. The Human Investigations Program provides
training in the competencies of clinical and translational research and underlies all programs. Specific training
for students includes the physician-scientist track, a clerkship in clinical and translational research, and the
FOLIO program for graduate students. The OCTRI Scholar program provides enhanced mentorship and
support to mentored career development awardees to increase the odds of achieving research independence.
During the next grant period, we will disseminate these successful training modules to the CTSA consortium,
particularly biostatistics and bioinformatics. We will enhance our training for early faculty by creating a research
development team that pairs an inexperienced clinician or scientist with an experienced research mentor to
design, submit for funding, and implement a research proposal with the assistance of the team; this same team
will work to problem solve implementation barriers for early researchers. Finally, we will increase the proportion
of clinical research professionals who achieve specific research competencies by strengthening and focusing
research staff training through an integrated series of training sessions.
The OCTRI Pilots and Clinical Studies program provides investigators with funding and resources to advance
their research to the next stage. The Pilot Awards Program also serves as a “living lab” for the design and
dissemination of research, process, and evaluation methods that impact the efficiency and efficacy of clinical
and translational research. The program comprises four key funding mechanisms: OCTRI Catalyst Awards,
OCTRI Community Research Coalition Awards, Strategic Investments, and the Biomedical Innovation
Program. Over the next grant period we will expand competitive access to our OCTRI partners. We will add an
additional mechanism, the Pathways to Independence Award, for early career researchers. This award will
fund research likely to impact their career trajectories. We will test this model experimentally, randomly
assigning grantees to receive or not receive a package of intensive workforce development and team science
interventions. In addition, we will centralize our already rigorous and transparent review process, forming a
single standing review committee for all pilot awards that will incorporate external and cross-CTSA reviewers.
The OCTRI Awards Program will continue to refine its successful evaluation approach,...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10198072
- **Project number:** 5UL1TR002369-05
- **Recipient organization:** OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** David Hoadley Ellison
- **Activity code:** UL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $936,843
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-02 → 2022-08-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10198072

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10198072, Core-003 (5UL1TR002369-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10198072. Licensed CC0.

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