Congratulations to our new TL1 training grant recipients and our Training and Research Academy for Clinical and Translational Science’s new scholars!
TL1 Scholars
The CTSI TL1 Predoctoral Training Program provides training grants to scholars in their second or third year of doctoral graduate study. The program helps trainees develop the skills required for a career in multidisciplinary clinical and translational research. It uses a team-science approach, mentoring and didactic training. Three new TL1 scholars begin the program this fall:
- Dane Phelan – Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences (Genetics), College of Medicine
- Shannon Roff – Infectious Diseases and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine
- Jacquelyn Walejko – Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), College of Medicine
TRACTS Scholars
The Training and Research Academy for Clinical and Translational Science (TRACTS) is a tuition-funded mentored training program for junior faculty and senior fellows at UF who have a passion to pursue clinical/ translational research in the health sciences as a major component of their careers. It is designed to enable clinicians to be competitive for a K-level (NIH) mentored research award or equivalent. Two assistant professors were nominated and accepted into the program in Spring 2014:
- Christa Cook, Ph.D., M.S.N., Assistant Professor, Health Care Environments and Systems, College of Nursing
- Amy Vittor, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, College of Medicine