# Institutional Career Development Core

> **NIH NIH KL2** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,640,430

## Abstract

The Duke CTSA KL2 program will provide training and research opportunities for junior
investigators that will equip them to participate in and ultimately lead transdisciplinary research
teams that transcend traditional scientific silos and embrace diverse stakeholder input; facilitate
advancement of discoveries to their next translational phase; leverage partnerships locally,
regionally, and nationally to enhance the impact of their discoveries; and promote the
development of a diverse workforce. We will build on the success of our previous KL2 program
(2013-2018): among 14 scholars, the average number of publications per scholar is 24; and of
the 8 who have been in the program for at least 2 years, 3 have received external research
funding (R01, K23, or equivalent), and 5 have proposals currently in review. In addition, we
achieved our innovative benchmark of funding at least 50% under-represented minority (URM)
scholars.
In the proposed program, we will enhance the KL2 program by (1) expanding our leadership
team to collectively span the translational spectrum; (2) engaging a pool of KL2 mentors that
has mentored more than 1,300 mentees (192 URM; 203 with subsequent K or R funding), and
who lead large collaborative projects, and can thus mentor scholars on team science principles
and practice; (3) providing KL2 scholars with a didactic and experiential program that includes
the fundamentals of translational science, team science, health disparities research methods,
individually-tailored career development topics, and a mock review process; (4) facilitating use
by KL2 scholars of all CTSA cores; (5) engaging scholars in a “Community of Scholars”; and (6)
supporting programmatic collaborations between Duke’s KL2 program and other CTSAs.
Importantly, we will continue our commitment to research workforce diversity (>=50% URM
scholars), with expanded strategies to ensure its continued success, such as longitudinal
mentorship, KL2 application support and sharing best practices with other KL2 programs.
Through these activities, Duke KL2 scholars will be poised to advance to independent funding
and contribute to and lead translation of biomedical and related discoveries into sustained public
health benefits.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9975237
- **Project number:** 5KL2TR002554-03
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Laura P Svetkey
- **Activity code:** KL2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,640,430
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-05-02 → 2023-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9975237

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9975237, Institutional Career Development Core (5KL2TR002554-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9975237. Licensed CC0.

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