# Institutional Career Development Core

> **NIH NIH KL2** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2020 · $1,567,695

## Abstract

Abstract
The rationale and fundamental goal of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute KL2 Scholars
Program is to train, mentor and equip succeeding generations of exceptional and diverse junior faculty
investigators with the methodologic, analytic, leadership, and team science skills required to conduct
transformative clinical and translational research. The Program's alumni, as individuals and as members of
multidisciplinary teams, have made exceptional contributions to health sciences research across the lifespan.
The proposed career development program is a key resource for clinical departments and research units
across the campus, and does not duplicate existing training programs at UCSF. In continuing the successful
KL2 program, with core faculty expertise in clinical and methodologic research, multisite studies and trials, and
vulnerable populations, the Program provides a proven and vital resource for UCSF faculty from the Schools of
Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. In the proposed funding period the Program will leverage UCSF's
unique strengths and partnerships with basic scientists, biopharmaceutical investigators, and industry
innovators to position its Scholars to continue to advance the field of Clinical and Translational Science, with
the following proposed Aims: Aim 1. To recruit a superb group of professionally and ethnically diverse UCSF
junior faculty KL2 Scholars and to support them for up to 3 years as they progress toward research
independence with individual NIH K and R awards; Aim 2. To expand and enhance training and mentoring at
the frontiers of clinical and translational research, in partnership with other CTSI programs, emphasizing
cutting-edge research methods; Aim 2a. Educate, train, and mentor KL2 Scholars to take full advantage of
technology-enabled research methods; Aim 2b. Educate, train, and mentor KL2 Scholars to plan and conduct
high-quality, efficient multisite studies and trials, and successfully disseminate and implement study results;
Aim 2c. Promote research in traditionally understudied special populations and enhance efforts to address
health inequities; Aim 3. Promote multidisciplinary collaboration and team science through leadership training,
mentorship and the creation of KL2 Scholar “teamlets” focused on addressing a specific research problem;
Aim 4. To share and disseminate the successful elements of the KL2 Program as a model for regional
collaboration. The KL2 Scholars Program is designed around in-depth education, systematic in-person
activities, bringing together Scholars from widely varied disciplines with senior faculty who facilitate
development of their research and professional skills. Program experience demonstrates that a “face-to-face”
structure, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration, peer mentorship, and team science skills, is
essential for the KL2 Scholars to become successful independent clinical and translational investigators.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9999058
- **Project number:** 5KL2TR001870-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** Douglas C Bauer
- **Activity code:** KL2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,567,695
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-07-18 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9999058

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9999058, Institutional Career Development Core (5KL2TR001870-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9999058. Licensed CC0.

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