Our Spring Clinical/Translational Research Training Track is well underway with 13 new scholars who have hit the ground running. Since launching our first track a few years ago, more than 40 scholars have graduated, and many have since secured research funding.

Our current scholars:

• Timothy Chryssikos, MD, PhD, Neurosurgery
• Gijung Kwak, PhD, Neurosurgery
• Marcel Lanza, PhD, Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Science
• Daiheon Lee, PhD, Neurosurgery
• Srini Muthukrishnan, MBBS, MS, MCh, FACS, Surgery
• Robabeh Rahimi, PhD, Radiation Oncology
• Sourav Saha, PhD, Pharmacology , Physiology, and Drug Development
• Karl Seif, MD, Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
• Xiaolei Shi, MD, PhD, Medicine
• Aisha Souquette, PhD, Microbiology & Immunology
• Birjoo Vaishnav, PhD, Radiation Oncology
• Juan Xie, PhD, MS, Epidemiology & Public Health
• Linying Zhu, PhD, Pharmacology & Physiology, and Drug Development

Our research training tracks offer lectures that cover all the basics of research design, research communications, and grant writing.  All scholars graduate with draft grant proposals that have undergone review in a mock study section and with revisions, are ready for submission to funding agencies.

We are now accepting applications for the Fall 2026 Basic Science Research Training Track. Applications for the Fall cohort are due Monday, May 11, 2026 by 11:59pm EST.