# TRIO NRSA Training Core

> **NIH NIH TL1** · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · 2024 · $767,246

## Abstract

Today’s incipient and early career trainees in Kidney, Urologic, Hematologic (KUH) fields require training 
within environments richly populated by accomplished team-science researchers and adept, committed mentors. 
Trainees must learn sophisticated research tools while simultaneously completing didactic coursework and 
developing professional development skills. Coordinating these efforts will enable scale-up of high-impact 
practices to remove the daunting academic and social barriers that have caused persistent disparities among 
KUH clinicians and researchers, and the direct gains of this training program will be realized most by the KUH 
patient populations we serve. Training the next generation of KUH researchers requires institutions and mentors 
to synergistically engage in both research and training. We have brought together KUH researchers at 3 leading 
North Carolina (NC) biomedical research universities: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest 
University, and Duke University, as well as from 3 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, NC Agricultural 
& Technical State University, Winston-Salem State University and NC Central University. Together, this forms 
the NC KUH TRIO (Training, Research, Innovation, Outreach, or TRIO) U2C/TL1 Research Training Program. 
The TRIO Training Core has 3 objectives: 1) provide didactics and hands-on experience in rigorous 
basic/translational and clinical sciences research; 2) conduct research that includes adoption of emerging 
technologies and builds on the cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional team science across the KUH mission; 
and 3) establishes and nourishes a community of scholars that expands and sustains diversity in KUH research. 
Multidisciplinary and team research skills will be developed under the Professional Development Core in 
conjunction with Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) programs. A connected community of TRIO
scholars, that spans from high school to early faculty, will be built and supported by the Networking Core. 
Qualified and motivated TRIO mentors will train both pre- and post-doctoral trainees across broad, highly 
relevant KUH scientific specialties that span basic/translational, clinical, and technology arenas. Emerging 
mentors will mature to assure future leadership and longevity of the program. TRIO will exploit existing multi-institutional training infrastructures and programs in biotechnology, public health, translational science, and 
clinical research. A robust and transparent admissions process with targeted recruitment will foster diversity, and 
rigorous program evaluation will allow real-time improvement in serving the needs of our KUH trainees. The 
integrated TRIO program will leverage cross-institutional synergies and provide cohesive programming to train 
the next generation leaders in multidisciplinary and team KUH-relevant research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10903819
- **Project number:** 5TL1DK139567-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
- **Principal Investigator:** Graca Duarte Almeida-Porada
- **Activity code:** TL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $767,246
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-01 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10903819

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10903819, TRIO NRSA Training Core (5TL1DK139567-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10903819. Licensed CC0.

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