# Mentoring and Research in Patient-Oriented Integrative Medicine

> **NIH NIH K24** · TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER · 2022 · $183,128

## Abstract

MENTORING AND RESEARCH IN PATIENT-ORIENTED INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
The renewal Midcareer K24 Award is for Dr. Chenchen Wang to continue her mentoring of the next generation
of physician-scientists and to contribute to patient-oriented Integrative Medicine research. Dr. Wang is
Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Complementary and Integrative
Medicine and holds a strong record of research, publication, and mentoring. Her long-term goal is to advance
the science of Integrative Medicine to promote health and healing. Her immediate goals are to obtain protected
time to expand and strengthen her innovative, multi-method, and multidisciplinary translational research and
mentoring programs for chronic disabling conditions.
In the First Four Years of the K24, the PI has completed four major NIH-funded clinical trials studying
comparative effectiveness of mind-body interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain, developing integrative
treatment approaches in military and veterans populations, and provided groundbreaking evidence on
neurobiological and physiological responses to mind-body interventions. In this period, the PI published 61
articles, 8 as first author and 53 as senior author. The PI and her mentored team also received a new R01-like
grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate the efficacy of a mind-body intervention for
veterans suffering with Gulf War Illness. During the initial K24 period, she has been primary or co-primary
mentor for 23 trainees with doctoral degrees. Her trainees authored 41 first-authored peer-reviewed
publications and had 64 co-authorships. Ten of her trainees have their own NIH or other career grants. Dr.
Wang’s multidisciplinary mentoring program, as well as her expertise on mind-body interventions, has been
fully integrated into the research and teaching infrastructure of the Tufts Clinical and Translational Science
Institute. With access to these outstanding resources and a long-recognized diverse training environment, her
selected mentees will continue to obtain training in the rigorous scientific methodology, integrity, ethics, and
grant applications necessary to stimulate high-quality, translational, patient-oriented research.
The goal of this proposed K24 renewal is to build upon previous and current findings of the PI’s NIH-funded
studies to: 1) expand and evaluate translational Integrative Medicine research for chronic disabling conditions
in order to inform and benefit medical practice; 2) advance fundamental neuroscience and human biology
research to understand the mechanisms of mind-body approaches, with the goal to improve chronic pain
management; 3) identify critical unmet needs of novel effective therapies for managing symptoms; and
4) further strengthen the comprehensive interdisciplinary mentoring plan and extend opportunities to new
scientists to guide future generations of Integrative Medicine researchers. This K24 renewal will therefore...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10327635
- **Project number:** 5K24AT007323-09
- **Recipient organization:** TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** CHENCHEN WANG
- **Activity code:** K24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $183,128
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2013-12-01 → 2024-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10327635

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10327635, Mentoring and Research in Patient-Oriented Integrative Medicine (5K24AT007323-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10327635. Licensed CC0.

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