Congratulations 2023 ICTR Scholar Awardees!
About the KL2 and TL1 Scholar Programs and Awardees
2023 KL2 Mentored Career Development Awardees
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is proud to announce the awardee for our fifth round of applications for the KL2 Mentored Career Development Awards. The KL2 award is designed to develop the next generation of clinical investigators, guiding scholars toward independent clinical research careers. Since this round was dedicated to hosting the first UMB University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) KL2 award competition, only applications from UMCP were accepted.
The UMB KL2 program provides mentored career development to outstanding junior faculty who have recently completed professional training and are performing high-impact translational and/or clinical research. Scholars receive up to three years of support with access to multi-disciplinary mentorship, formal coursework, and professional development opportunities.
The UMB/UMCP KL2 Awardee is funded internally by the ICTR and the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower). The UMB ICTR CTSA KL2 program is Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA).
Congratulations to Dr. Kristen Coleman (UMCP School of Public Health) who was selected as our first UMB/UMCP ICTR KL2 Scholar! Dr. Coleman joins the UMB KL2 awardees from previous years which are both CTSA and Internally funded, as well as the KL2 awardees at Johns Hopkins University, our CTSA partner.
The UMB ICTR CTSA KL2 Mentored Career Development Program is led by the Director Christy Chang, PhD and Associate Director Graziela Kalil, PharmD.
For more information about the ICTR Career Development Program, please visit ICTR Training and Career Development Core.
2023 UMB ICTR TL1 Pre- and Post-Doctoral Training Awardees
The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the fifth round of UMB ICTR TL1 Clinical Research Training Awards. The TL1 Training Program is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program. Funding for three awardees in this program is provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA). Two additional awardees from University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) are funded internally by the ICTR and the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State (MPower).
The purpose of the TL1 Awards is to provide individual training in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research. Predoctoral students and post-doctoral fellows from all seven UMB Schools (Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Graduate School) and UMCP were invited to apply.
The TL1 Pre-doctoral awardees receive one year of stipend, tuition, and training-related expenses support while the TL1 Post-Doctoral Awardees receive two years of support which also includes a stipend, some tuition, and training-related expenses. Trainees will complete additional formal training in a clinical research area.
The recipients of the TL1 Post-Doctoral Awards are Parham Habibzadeh, MD, and Douglas Tran, MD. The recipients of the TL1 Pre-Doctoral Awards are Leslie Jordan, MS, PhD Candidate, and Asha Pavuluri, MS, PhD Candidate. The incoming TL1 Trainees join the TL1 second year post-Doctoral trainees and the TL1 awardees at Johns Hopkins University, our CTSA partner.
Congratulations to all!
The UMB ICTR TL1 Clinical Research Training Program is led by the Director Luana Colloca, MD, PhD, MS, and Associate Director Graziela Kalil, PharmD.
For more information about the ICTR Career Development Program, please visit ICTR Training and Career Development Core.
2023 KL2 Scholar Awardees
Kristen Coleman, PhD, Assistant Professor
UMB/UMCP KL2 Scholar
University of Maryland College Park,
School of Public Health
Project Title: Deploying Noninvasive Bioaerosol Sampling Techniques to Characterize Human-to-Human Transmission of Influenza Virus in Controlled Exposure Settings
2023 TL1 Postdoctoral Scholar Awardees
Parham Habibzadeh, MD, TL1 Postdoctoral Scholar
Post Doc Fellow, Institute of Human Virology, Division of Clinical Care and Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Project Title: High Resolution Characterization of Humoral Immune Response in Patients with Multiple Myeloma
Douglas Tran, MD, TL1 Postdoctoral Scholar
Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Project Title: Allogenic Re-cellularized Orthotopic Transplantation
2023 TL1 Predoctoral Scholar Awardees
Leslie Jordan, MS, PhD Student, TL1 Predoctoral Scholar
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland College Park
Project Title: Developmental Trajectories in Youth Psychopathology: Early Indicators of Risk in Mental Health, Physical Health, and Brain Measures.
Asha Pavuluri, MS, PhD Student, TL1 Predoctoral Scholar
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Doctoral Program, University of Maryland College Park
Project Title: General Psychopathology Factor as a Mediator Between Polysubstance Use and Dimensional Psychopathology Constructs
Lakota Watson, PhD Student, TL1 Predoctoral Scholar
Graduate Program in Life Sciences, Program in Neuroscience, University of Maryland School of Medicine,
Project title: Examining the mediating and modulating effects of early life adversity (ELA) on social learning and state empathy.