# Building Research across Interdisciplinary Gaps (BRIDG) R90 Training Program

> **NIH NIH R90** · NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL MEDICINE · 2024 · $1

## Abstract

The T90/R90 Building Research across Inter-Disciplinary Gaps (BRIDG) Complementary and Integrative 
Health (CIH) Postdoctoral Clinical Research Training Program is a partnership between the 
University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA, and the National University of Natural Medicine 
(NUNM) in Portland, OR. The overarching objective of the T90/R90 BRIDG program is to prepare the 
next generation of clinical investigators to design and carry out competitive, rigorous CIH 
programs of research that are innovative, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary, thereby generating 
new knowledge and contributing to improving health care. The T90 component of the BRIDG program 
provides competitive CIH-trained, doctoral-level clinicians with didactic courses in 
clinical research methodology, specific learning modules dedicated to CIH-specific research 
 topics, and hands-on, clinical research experiences mentored by funded investigators from the 
UW. T90s will be graduates or recent graduates of CIH-training institutions. The R90 component 
of the BRIDG program provides competitive conventionally trained researchers with training 
and mentorship in the practices of integrative health disciplines, including naturopathy, 
classical Chinese medicine herbal medicine, and mind and body therapies amongst others. R90s will 
be early-investigator level PhDs interested in clinical CIH research. R90s participate in clinical 
clerkships, receive research mentorship from funded investigators, and have the opportunity 
to collect preliminary data toward grant applications. R90s and T90s train together during weekly 
BRIDG Seminars, tri-annual in-person BRIDG Retreats, and annual immersive Methods Workshops to 
foster collaboration and learn applications of research methods to CIH research. In total, 6 
 R90 participants and 6 T90 trainees will be appointed for a maximum of 3 years each over 
the course of Years 06-10 of BRIDG. The Specific Aims of the BRIDG program are to: 1. Provide 
promising CIH-trained clinicians with clinical research training at the research-intensive UW, 
including hands-on research experience, mentorship and didactic training in clinical research 
methodologies; 2. Provide promising conventionally trained researchers interested in 
collaborative CIH clinical research with experience in CIH clinical practices and 
research training at the CIH-intensive NUNM, including clinical observations, research 
mentorship and didactic training in complementary health disciplines; 3. Apply innovative online 
and distance education approaches to deliver, preserve and disseminate the BRIDG program training 
materials; and 4. Evaluate the BRIDG program on a variety of metrics of success in order to 
continually improve the program. The products of the BRIDG program include the continued 
development of a cadre of cross-trained clinical researchers prepared to design and carry out 
competitive rigorous CIH research and contribute significant knowledge to the fie...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10835882
- **Project number:** 5R90AT008924-10
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Ryan D Bradley
- **Activity code:** R90 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $1
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2015-04-01 → 2026-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10835882

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10835882, Building Research across Interdisciplinary Gaps (BRIDG) R90 Training Program (5R90AT008924-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10835882. Licensed CC0.

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