# Professional Development Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · BROWN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $761,663

## Abstract

ABSTRACT – PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORE
The RI-CCTS Professional Development Key Component builds on the state's multiple strengths in education,
training, and faculty development. Institutions that are important to this Key Component include Brown's Alpert
School of Medicine and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals, Brown's School of Public Health and School of
Engineering, and URI's College of Pharmacy and College of Nursing. Faculty at these institutions direct many
NIH-funded training and career development programs (e.g., T32s, K12s, R25s), and have extensive
mentoring experience. However, significant training and mentoring gaps remain related to Clinical and
Translational Research (CTR). With the resources of an IDeA-CTR we will be able to develop a series of
critical elements of Professional Development infrastructure that we believe will rapidly transform the RI CTR
community. Importantly, our efforts will be focused on the health problems that have been prioritized by the RI
Department of Health, including sudden cardiac death, smoking and smoking cessation, obesity, substance
abuse and addiction, the elimination new HIV infections, reproductive health, prisoner health, and
neuroscience related to mental disorders. We propose the following Specific Aims:
1. Develop new training opportunities that leverage existing institutional resources. Examples of new
 opportunities are a Mentored Research Award program that will fund three scholars a year, a monthly
 trans-institutional grant development seminar for all clinical and translational research-oriented career
 development awardees (e.g., T32s, K12s, R25s) campus-wide, web-based training in interdisciplinary
 clinical and translational research-oriented topics (e.g., how basic scientists can effectively collaborate with
 clinicians, and vice versa), and web-based training in how to commercialize research findings.
2. Develop a state-wide mentoring network for clinical and translational research. In addition to
 developing a comprehensive web-based database of experienced and interested mentors from the
 Biological Sciences, Public Health, Engineering, Social Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, we
 will develop and implement web-based training for both mentors and mentees in how to optimize the
 impact of the mentor-mentee relationship. We will give special attention to the mentoring needs of under-
 represented minorities and women.
We believe that the impact of this proposed Professional Development Key Component will be profound
because our proposed plan 1) explicitly builds on existing COBRE and INBRE investments, 2) leverages
existing institutional resources, and complements these assets with focused new programs and investments,
3) creates infrastructure that links multiple RI institutions in new ways, 4) creates synergies with existing NIH
and NSF funded programs, particularly training programs, 5) prioritizes the health needs of the state.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9957175
- **Project number:** 5U54GM115677-05
- **Recipient organization:** BROWN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** IRA B WILSON
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $761,663
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2021-08-09

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9957175

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9957175, Professional Development Core (5U54GM115677-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9957175. Licensed CC0.

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