# Short Term Research Training

> **NIH NIH T35** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2021 · $86,662

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) proposes a Short Term Research
Training Program (STRT) that will provide an up to 3-month research experience for up to 24
medical students who have completed at least one year of medical school and are currently
enrolled. The short term goal of the program is to provide medical students with a meaningful
research experience early in their medical school career.
In order to achieve that goal the aims of the program are: (1) To select up to 24 medical students
per year who have an interest in a research career and will dedicate 8-12 weeks to work on a
research project.; (2) To match the STRT participants to carefully selected, outstanding faculty
mentors who will serve as role models and help nurture the interest of STRT students in
research; (3) To provide STRT participants with required and optional didactics that will
increase the likelihood of a research experience that will provide a bridge to a career as an
academic physician; (4) To track the outcomes of STRT to determine the success of the program.
The long-term goal of the UNC STRT Program will be to increase the number of medical
students committed to a research career in the following areas: digestive diseases, liver disease,
nutritional disorders, obesity, diabetes, endocrine disorders, metabolic diseases, kidney
diseases, urologic diseases and hematologic disorders.
The program takes advantage of unique and considerable institutional strengths in research,
including a large number of NIDDK-funded investigators, an NIDDK-funded Digestive Diseases
Center, and a broad array of investigators from four different health affairs schools who are
located in close proximity to each other. Such an arrangement creates the kind of research
environment that will provide the gateway for a lifelong research career.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10203292
- **Project number:** 2T35DK007386-41
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** NICHOLAS J SHAHEEN
- **Activity code:** T35 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $86,662
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1980-05-01 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10203292

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10203292, Short Term Research Training (2T35DK007386-41). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10203292. Licensed CC0.

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