# Professional Development Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA · 2024 · $91,241

## Abstract

Professional Development Core Project Summary / Abstract.
Professional development is a key ingredient for the Montana Clinical and Translational Research Center’s
(CTRC) overall goal of building clinical and translational (C&T) research capacity. For Montana C&T
researchers, there exists a critical gap in the training and mentorship required to initiate, support, and sustain
competitive C&T research and the community populations that they serve. We hypothesize that faculty and
practitioners with appropriate training and mentorship support will develop into successful and impactful C&T
researchers. The long-term goal of the Professional Development (PD) Core is to have a coordinated training
and mentoring resource that is dynamic and continuously informed by the needs of the C&T research
workforce. Our objective is to develop a user-informed training and mentorship platform to service the
professional development needs of emerging C&T researchers as well as the needs of the other CTRC Cores
that support those researchers. We will achieve this objective through three aims. Aim 1: We will conduct
needs assessments to identify training and professional development priorities to support C&T research. Aim
2: We will design, promote and deliver trainings, workshops, and other professional development activities for
the CTRD research workforce. Aim 3: We will host a formal mentorship program to support both CTRC funded
researchers and others in the emerging C&T research workforce.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10984326
- **Project number:** 1P20GM155895-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
- **Principal Investigator:** Curtis William Noonan
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $91,241
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-01 → 2029-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10984326

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10984326, Professional Development Core (1P20GM155895-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10984326. Licensed CC0.

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