# Institutional Career Development Core

> **NIH NIH KL2** · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2020 · $1,323,020

## Abstract

KL2 Career Development Program Abstract
Our goal is to establish the TRANSFORM KL2 Career Development Program to provide training and mentoring
in skills essential to conducting clinical and translational science (CTS) in the era of interdisciplinary team
research. The proposed program will enhance the career development, translational capabilities, and
collaborative skills of faculty and scientists from diverse disciplines. Recruitment efforts will be targeted at
investigators with research or health professional doctorates in medicine, pediatrics, surgery, dentistry,
nursing, allied health, pharmacology, health care administration and management, clinical research design,
epidemiology, biostatistics, biomedical informatics, economics, quality improvement, modeling systems,
bioethics, engineering, and behavioral science. Program graduates will receive excellent career mentoring, and
will also gain expertise in advanced CTS methods and experimental approaches that will allow them to
compete more effectively for external funding in the biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences, and
ultimately to contribute to an interdisciplinary workforce and enhanced translational ability to prevent and treat
diseases. Our goals are to: (i) develop innovative education and career development programs, building on
and extending our many successful existing programs, that will enhance the ability of our scholars and trainees
to engage in interdisciplinary teamwork, make new discoveries, and translate those discoveries to patient
benefit; (ii) demonstrate the effectiveness of those programs through continuous monitoring and assessment
for quality improvement, using key metrics to evaluate the impact of our educational programs on research
output, career trajectories, and continued engagement in biomedical research; and (iii) disseminate findings
on novel educational delivery approaches, new methods for assessing student learning, and best practices in
enhancing interdisciplinary team science skills to our partners at Columbia, the members of the CTSA
consortium, and educational programs throughout the nation. Given our track record and outstanding applicant
pool, we are ready to undertake the proposed aims and we are confident that we can achieve our training
goals, which will expedite the development of the next generation of CTS researchers who will not only
contribute substantially to clinical and translational research, but will also perform as effective members and
leaders of diverse and interdisciplinary scientific teams, with the ability to advance partnerships with industry,
patient advocacy groups, our local community in Northern Manhattan and Harlem, and other stakeholder
groups. We believe that our program will be successful due to the outstanding CUMC research portfolio, our
10+ years of experience in administering successful training and mentoring programs, our investment in the
national efforts towards research competencies and mentor deve...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9938709
- **Project number:** 5KL2TR001874-05
- **Recipient organization:** COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** JEANINE M. GENKINGER
- **Activity code:** KL2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,323,020
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-07-01 → 2021-06-27

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9938709

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9938709, Institutional Career Development Core (5KL2TR001874-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9938709. Licensed CC0.

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