# NRSA Training Core

> **NIH NIH TL1** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · 2020 · $567,790

## Abstract

TRAINING CORE: TL1
SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
The UC Davis CTSC proposes a new predoctoral and postdoctoral interdisciplinary program to train diverse
scholars in clinical and translational research methods. The CTSC with the leaders of this TL1 program will
build upon the direction and philosophy of our former successful CTSC predoctoral program and its affiliated
partners including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Med-into-Grad program to enhance the
interdisciplinary and team science strategies put forth over the past 8 years. There will be a renewed focus on
training core competencies in clinical and translational research as well as providing clinical experiences to
biomedical trainees recruited from schools and colleges across the UC Davis campus. Diverse scholars and
mentors will be recruited from the Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Nursing, and the Colleges of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Engineering, all key partners in the past.
Our program will be framed over two years (with a one year option for medical students) and focus on rigorous
mentoring through the Mentoring Academy with monitoring of scholar progress and the training performance of
the mentoring teams. In addition, the program will provide a creative training and scientific milieu facilitating
career development to the next stage of the scholars' research careers, either as independent researchers in
academic, government, or private research laboratories, or as high-level translational team research scholars.
This TL1 program adds substantial value to UC Davis and our CTSC, and uniquely facilitates training and
interactions among PhD, MD, and DVM trainees. We view the partnerships forged through the CTSC and
trainees as essential to creating a rich interactive research environment and the strong foundation for team
science of the future. Our goals are to: create individual training pathways to develop a diverse workforce that
crosses disciplinary boundaries, enhance mentoring capacity within the CTSC in the fields of Veterinary
Medicine, Engineering, Nutrition, and Biological Sciences to support translational team science, and expand
training opportunities for all UC Davis Clinical and Translational Research Scholars. While we emphasize the
outstanding foundation and the accumulated experience upon which this program has been built, the proposed
training program will begin anew with the added capacity to engage postdoctoral scholars across the UC Davis
campus. Overall, the TL1 is well positioned to accomplish new goals and objectives through the opportunities
afforded by a strong partnership with the UC Davis CTSC, diverse schools and colleges across UC Davis, and
unique resources and related NIH-supported programs.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9949456
- **Project number:** 5TL1TR001861-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
- **Principal Investigator:** Valentina Medici
- **Activity code:** TL1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $567,790
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-07-01 → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9949456

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9949456, NRSA Training Core (5TL1TR001861-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9949456. Licensed CC0.

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