# Career Development Programs in Diabetes Research for Pediatrics Endocrinologists

> **NIH NIH K12** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $400,549

## Abstract

Yale University School of Medicine and the Yale Pediatric Endocrinology Section are
seeking to continue to be one of the centers of excellence in diabetes career
development that will allow young pediatric endocrinologists to establish academic
careers as independent investigators in diabetes research. In this K12 renewal
application, we are requesting ~2 Physician Scientist stipends per year for 5 years. Yale
has an impressive array of resources that will support this program, including the
research services and research facilities provided by the CTSA-supported Yale Center for
Clinical Investigation (YCCI), the Diabetes Research Center (DRC) Cores, Magnetic
Resonance Research Center, PET Center, the Keck Biotechnology Laboratory, Mouse
Metabolic Phenotyping Center and a host of other research cores. The Program Director,
Assistant Program Director and senior faculty mentors are highly respected and
productive investigators with extensive peer-reviewed grant support to fund trainees'
projects and they play key administrative roles in the management of many of the most
relevant research resources and facilities. Our faculty members have a long history of
extensive collaborations and an outstanding track record in the career development of
young physician scientists. The faculty includes four of our former K12 scholars who have
developed into outstanding independent investigators. Our K12 scholars can choose
between 5 major areas of research training (Artificial Pancreas/Diabetes Technology/T1D
Therapeutics; T1 and T2D Clinic Registries and Clinic Networks; Obesity/T2 DM;
Immunobiology of T1D and Hypoglycemia/Neurobiology) with 5-8 potential mentors within
each area. The K12 Advisory Committee will be comprised of each of the leaders of
theses research areas, along with several other senior faculty members in Pediatrics. A
centerpiece of our educational program is the Yale Investigative Medicine PhD Program
and the internal pipeline of current post-doctoral fellows includes two T32 trainees who
are enrolled in the Investigative Medicine PhD program. The Investigative Medicine
Program also offers courses that are part of the Masters Degree in Health Science
Research Program curriculum in which all of our K12 scholars who do not have an
advanced degree will be encouraged to enroll. All of our K12 scholars will received
comprehensive instruction regarding the responsible conduct of research and we will
make every possible effort to attract qualified minority candidates.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9983672
- **Project number:** 5K12DK094714-10
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** WILLIAM V TAMBORLANE
- **Activity code:** K12 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $400,549
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2011-09-16 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9983672

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9983672, Career Development Programs in Diabetes Research for Pediatrics Endocrinologists (5K12DK094714-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9983672. Licensed CC0.

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