# NRSA Training Core

> **NIH NIH TL1** · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · 2020 · $355,827

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – TRAINING CORE (TL1)
This TL1 training program proposes to train 3 new predoctoral students and 2 new postdoctoral trainees every
year with 25 trainees across 5 years. Each trainee will receive funding for two years. The TL1 program will
provide the necessary predoctoral and postdoctoral training to produce scientists with a deep appreciation of
the spectrum of translational science, a team science outlook and an aptitude for cross-discipline
communication. The conceptual framework that guides the training program organizes the translational
continuum into three Spheres of Translation Across the Research Spectrum (“STARS”): Discovery,
Demonstration and Dissemination. Trainees undertake research within one of these spheres, and will also
receive training across the spectrum, to emerge with an invaluable broad perspective of how their own
research fits within the breadth of translational science and how discoveries move through the continuum.
Training will include translational science, team science, entrepreneurship, community engagement, immersion
opportunities (e.g., clinical observation, wet and dry lab experiences, externships, entrepreneurial
experiences), ethics, grant and manuscript writing, communication, management and leadership development.
Additionally, trainees will receive holistic mentoring and career guidance. We will create a cadre of scholars
with a commanding knowledge and experiences across all three translational spheres, and a deep
commitment to transdisciplinary team science. We are equally committed to ensuring a diverse group of
scholars in order to ensure the pipeline of scientists are as diverse as the subjects they research. Finally, we
believe strongly that it is important to train mentors, especially new mentors, on how to be effective mentors
and advocates for trainees. Thus, another innovative component of this training program is the inclusion and
training of “emerging mentors”. These mentors are junior faculty with a history of external funding and
significant publications and who are interested in learning how to be effective mentors. They will receive
mentoring and leadership training and will co-mentor trainees with an experienced and senior mentor. Trainees
will also receive significant benefit from receiving mentoring advice from a “near peer”, particularly in terms of
career development. Our overarching goal is to produce a next generation of scientists with strategic
translational emphases who are successful communicators across disciplines and whose breadth of
knowledge across the STARS can increase transdisciplinary cross fertilization and accelerate healthcare
advances.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9889196
- **Project number:** 5TL1TR002540-03
- **Recipient organization:** UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH
- **Principal Investigator:** NICOLA J. CAMP
- **Activity code:** TL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $355,827
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-03-30 → 2023-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9889196

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9889196, NRSA Training Core (5TL1TR002540-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9889196. Licensed CC0.

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