# HEMATOLOGY TRAINING

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2022 · $735,806

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
The Hematology Research Training Program at the University of Washington is designed to provide intensive
post-doctoral research training in investigative hematology. Although the program emphasizes cell and molecular
biology, and has well-established strengths in stem cells, hematopoiesis, cell and gene therapy, platelets and
hemostasis, the pathogenesis of hematologic malignancies, and hematopoietic cell transplantation; clinical
research and outcomes investigation are also supported and encouraged. Program faculty include established
investigators with strong independent research programs from both basic science and clinical departments of
the University of Washington. The faculty is based at the University of Washington campuses, the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, BloodWorks NW, Harborview Medical Center, the VA Puget Sound Health
Care System, and Seattle Children's Hospital Research Institute. The goal of the training program is to develop
the research, presentation, and grant-writing skills that trainees will need to establish independent research
careers, and to train future leaders in research hematology. Trainees have MD, MD/PhD or PhD degrees. Many
have completed clinical fellowship training in hematology, but others are basic researchers wishing to work in
the field. Trainees are chosen through an application process and interviews with program faculty. They obtain
research experience by working with a mentor, and gain skills in laboratory and/or clinical investigation, data
analysis, publishing papers, presentation, and acquiring independent grant support. Bidirectional translational
projects (bench to bedside and bedside to bench) are encouraged. Trainees typically receive two years of funding
from the T32 program, but often continue their training longer under separate funding mechanisms, including
K12, K23, K08 or K99R00 grants and foundation support. Training progress is monitored by the faculty mentor,
a separate faculty advisor, the Program Directors, and the Division of Hematology faculty through regular
research presentations, meetings with each trainee, and written evaluations. Each six months, trainees update
their individual development plan (IDP) and formally present their research progress and career goals to a
Research Oversight Committee (ROC) consisting of the trainee's mentors and the T32 PI. 100% and 83% of
trainees who completed our program over the past 5 and 10 years, respectively, have academic medicine or
industry research careers. Strengths of the program include: the diverse research opportunities, a qualified
prominent senior faculty, the inclusion and mentorship of talented junior faculty, the structured mentorship of
trainees, the inclusion of under-represented minority trainees, strong and varied didactic sessions, and a long
track record spanning over five decades of training graduates that subsequently obtain academic (or industry)
research positions and become indepen...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10445238
- **Project number:** 5T32HL007093-48
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Janis L Abkowitz
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $735,806
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1975-07-01 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10445238

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10445238, HEMATOLOGY TRAINING (5T32HL007093-48). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10445238. Licensed CC0.

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