# Professional Development Core

> **NIH NIH U2C** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2024 · $296,571

## Abstract

PROJECT ABSTRACT
Professional Development Core
The LAUNCH Professional Development Core aims to augment the trainees’ biomedical research career
preparation, promote team science through a series of structured and individualized educational experiences
and effective mentorship, and build and maintain a comprehensive training program that equips trainees with
the skillsets they need to thrive in scientific careers. To achieve these aims, the Professional Development
Core will capitalize on the expansive talent, resources, infrastructure and diverse disciplines at UCSF, UC
Berkeley, UC Davis, and Stanford University– all of which have longstanding partnerships both in scientific
enterprises as well as inter-institutional research training. We will also leverage our institutions’ network of
collaborators within biomedical and engineer industries and the entrepreneurial spirit on which the Bay area
thrives to enhance our trainees’ career development. Led by Dr. Glenn Chertow at Stanford University and Dr.
Dirk Hockemeyer at UC Berkeley, this innovative Professional Development Core will augment career
preparation and provide trainees with the skillsets that are necessary for them to compete successfully for
funding. Our program will also provide continual guidance on navigating mentorship and career advancement,
while exposing trainees to the range of research career pathways that are possible. Separate training
pathways will be available for pre- and post-doctoral trainees and by discipline (nephrology, urology, or
hematology) when appropriate in order to provide individualized research training and experiences that are
tailored to each trainee’s needs and goals. We will routinely capture trainee and mentor feedback to drive
continuous improvements in the quality of the professional development activities that are available within the
LAUNCH Program and to ensure the success of our trainees and bolster their confidence in their decision to
pursue research careers in KUH science.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10918204
- **Project number:** 5U2CDK133488-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** GLENN MATTHEW CHERTOW
- **Activity code:** U2C (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $296,571
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-01 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10918204

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10918204, Professional Development Core (5U2CDK133488-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10918204. Licensed CC0.

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