# Institutional Career Development Core

> **NIH NIH KL2** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,244,082

## Abstract

Summary - The Yale KL2 Mentored Clinical Scholars Program began in 2006 as the educational arm of
the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation. The mission remains to attract a diverse group of highly talented
junior faculty across multiple disciplines in the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Biomedical
Engineering who are interested in pursuing careers in any aspect (T1-T4) of translational research: to imbue
them with a spirit of discovery; to train them in the use of state-of-the-art research tools; to give them the skills
to work in complex and diverse multidisciplinary research teams; and to support their professional
development. This Program has been highly successful, attracting to date 105 Scholars who have successfully
competed for more than 140 individual NIH awards and of whom 98% have gone on to positions in academia
or industry after completion of the Program. Going forward we seek to build on this exciting success in
developing the next generation of translational researchers by promoting our core strengths of strong
mentor/mentee relationships, outstanding learning opportunities, and strong programs for career development
while simultaneously encouraging even greater numbers of this diverse group of Scholars to participate in
multidisciplinary team science, community-based participatory research, and industry-academia partnering. To
oversee these diverse and highly motivated junior investigators, we have established an educational
leadership team consisting of 3 premier investigators with strong mentoring skills and expertise in different
areas of translational research, along with 2 outstanding education experts with expertise in the evaluation and
dynamic reshaping of medical education programs. The leadership team will work directly with Scholars and
their mentors to develop programs in team-based research that address complex medical and/or societal
problems of health and healthcare delivery, and to use this research to solve problems in patient care in ways
that provide real and measurable positive impacts on health in the US and around the world. In recognition of
the complexity of the research needs and the career paths of these Scholars, the leadership team has adopted
a logic model to track and evaluate the activities of the Scholars, track the success of the program, and
continuously improve the program to meet the Scholars' needs. With these new additions to an already strong
curriculum, we believe that the Yale Mentored Clinical Scholars Program will be ideally positioned to train the
next generation of representative and diverse translational researchers as they navigate the rapidly changing
healthcare challenges and opportunities inherent in successfully performing outstanding clinical and
translational research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9977295
- **Project number:** 5KL2TR001862-05
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** LLOYD G CANTLEY
- **Activity code:** KL2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,244,082
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-07-01 → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9977295

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9977295, Institutional Career Development Core (5KL2TR001862-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9977295. Licensed CC0.

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