# Interdisciplinary Training in Musculoskeletal Research

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2022 · $175,970

## Abstract

Abstract
This application describes a new Training Program at the University of Colorado (CU) entitled “Interdisciplinary
Training in Musculoskeletal Research”. The overarching mission of this new Program is to provide
comprehensive interdisciplinary training in musculoskeletal science with the aim of developing the next
generation of outstanding musculoskeletal investigators. The Program will be administratively anchored in the
Colorado Program for Musculoskeletal Research (CPMR) and the Department of Orthopedics on the Anschutz
Medical Campus. It includes 29 senior and junior preceptors from 18 basic science and clinical departments
across all 4 CU campuses - Anschutz, Boulder, Denver, and Colorado Springs. Preceptors and their labs are
coordinated in the Program to provide research, didactic education and mentoring to 4 predoctoral and 2
postdoctoral trainees in conjunction with a broader cross section of unseated trainees pursuing advanced
education within the CPMR. To accomplish this mission, we have assembled a Program that evaluates and
recruits top talent from trainee pools and provides a series of formalized education components that are
conjoined with top-notch research training with world class preceptors. Beyond laboratory research, formal
programming includes a five-lecture series Musculoskeletal Science Curriculum, the Mack Clayton Seminars
(preeminent visiting scientists), Work-in-Progress Meetings and Journal Clubs, the Annual CPMR Symposium
and D’Ambrosia Diversity Lectureship, a weekly Specific Aims Development Meeting, and preferential and
subsidized access to Research Core Services for trainees and their preceptors. University-level education
opportunities constructed and supported by the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and the
Office of Diversity and Inclusion, are layered in, including training in mentoring, biostatistics, research
management, and diversity training. Program activities will be developed, implemented, executed, and
supervised by a hierarchy of oversight Committees that collaborate with Program leadership to administer all
aspects of activity. These Committees include Trainee Selection and Progress, Curriculum, Clayton Seminars,
Outreach and Diversity and Trainee Feedback. The Program Directors will coordinate in real time with these
Committees for overall Program management, collectively reporting to an Internal and an External advisory
board and an Executive Committee to facilitate overall Program oversight, evaluation, problem solving, and
vision setting. Overall, the training enabled through this new Program, which includes a focus on mentoring
trainees towards independent funding, will be a springboard to development of the next generation of
collaborative and innovative musculoskeletal investigators aiming to translate basic discoveries into novel
human therapies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10410794
- **Project number:** 1T32AR080630-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** Karin A Payne
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $175,970
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-07-20 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10410794

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10410794, Interdisciplinary Training in Musculoskeletal Research (1T32AR080630-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10410794. Licensed CC0.

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