In addition to providing essential training and funding opportunities, the Core is also developing new strategic, infrastructure to expand the tool set that investigators have available to build successful, independent research careers.
Advance-CTR
Professional Development Core
The Professional Development Core equips early-career health researchers in Rhode Island with the resources and training they need to build competitive research programs that improve population health in our state.
Professional Development Core
The Professional Development Core equips early-career health researchers in Rhode Island with the resources and training they need to build competitive research programs that improve population health in our state.
Core Leadership
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Ira Wilson, MD
Director, Advance-CTR Professional Development Core, Chair of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Professor of Medicine
Specific Aims
- Provide funding mechanisms and enhance essential clinical and translational competencies to promote equity and competitiveness of the RI investigator community.
- Support junior faculty through 2-year Mentored Research Awards
- Offer Grant Resubmission Awards
- Coordinate a monthly seminar series, featuring CTR work of MRA and Pilot Project awardees
- Provide training in entrepreneurship and innovation
- Provide training and experiences in team science and community-engaged research
- Provide education and certification in essential regulatory and human subjects topics
Explore the Mentored Research Awards
This 2-year program supports junior PIs through funding and a structured mentoring program.
- Position junior investigators to secure grant funding and achieve independence.
- Further develop the Advance-K program
- Create the Advance-R program
- Offer annual grant-writing workshops
- Expand the dissemination of best practices in mentoring.
- Build capacity and sustainability of Advance-CTR mentoring training
- Develop resources that support mentoring excellence and build mentoring community
Resources for Professional Development
Find a collaborator, pinpoint external funding, or get support for entrepreneurship — and more — through these resources for professional development.