Project Details
Description
The Einstein-Montefiore Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) has developed and supported
a highly integrated core of education and career development programs in clinical and translational (C/T)
research, accelerated by the funding of our first CTSA grant in 2008. Among our interlinked and coordinated
education and career development programs, our innovative PhD in Clinical Investigation (PCI) has
developed into a growing and increasingly effective training program; this new application will provide further
growth and enhancement. The Specific Aims in our new NRSA Training Core application are: 1) to identify,
educate, support, and mentor talented PhD and MD-PhD candidates to become impactful and successful
clinical/translational scientists; 2) to encourage and facilitate translational research collaborations through
interdisciplinary co-mentoring of trainees and novel approaches to supporting team science; 3) to promote a
research culture that approaches all research responsibly, conducts all research rigorously, and reports all
research in a manner supporting its reproducibility; 4) to rigorously evaluate and continuously improve our pre- and
post-doctoral educational programs. Our students are funded not only by our NRSA training grant and
institutional funds, but also (as appropriate) through other extramural sources, including a novel training grant
from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) grant from
NIH/NIGMS. We seek to provide our graduates with the knowledge and skills to serve them well in a broad
range of settings. The expansion our PhD program, eCLIPSE (education Connecting Laboratory Investigation
and Population Science at Einstein), has grown out of our innovative PhD in Clinical Investigation, which began
with our first CTSA grant. The overall goal of eCLIPSE is to produce scientists who are cross trained and facile
with the techniques and research methods employed by both laboratory-based basic scientists and population-oriented
researchers. Our core curriculum includes carefully selected courses from both our biomedical
sciences PhD program and our MSc program in Clinical Research, complemented by program-specific
seminars and oversight. A cornerstone of eCLIPSE is thoughtful and conscientious co-mentoring from
established investigators, with one mentor from the laboratory sciences and one from the population sciences.
A new mentor training program, emphasizing co-mentoring, is planned for the next project period, as is a novel
recruitment effort to identify candidates from relevant disciplines beyond the biological sciences. Our initial PCI
enrollee received her PhD in 2012; since then, 4 additional PhDs were conferred in 2016 (3 PhD, 1 MD/PhD),
and there are currently 9 predoctoral students (6 PhD, 3 MD/PhD) working toward their degrees.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 3/22/18 → 2/28/23 |
Funding
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: $68,322.00
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: $208,076.00
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: $198,076.00
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: $195,846.00
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: $193,669.00
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: $133,222.00
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