Announcing This Year’s KL2 Career Development Awardees

Meet this year's KL2 Career Development Awardees, who will begin innovative projects on a range of topics on July 1.

UR CTSI Seeking Co-Director for KL2 Career Development Program

The new co-director will bring expertise and experience to benefit program scholars and enhance the program’s ability to achieve its training objectives. The ideal candidate will be an experienced mentor with NIH funding and experience writing NIH training grants.

Meet Our Latest KL2 Career Development Awardees

Congratulations to the latest cohort of KL2 Career Development Awardees funded by the UR CTSI! This year’s awardees will adapt a behavioral therapy for Deaf individuals, test a new treatment regimen for breast cancer patients with brain metastases, map brain pathways to aid surgery, and use artificial intelligence to support clinical decision making. 

New KL2 Awardees Tackle Hypertension, GI Health and Suicide Prevention

A new crop of budding research faculty are about to kick off their UR CTSI-funded KL2 projects, which range in focus from suicide prevention to novel ways to assess intestine function and cardiac health.

UR CTSI Incubator Project Leads to NEW Brain Aging Center at URMC

Feng Vankee Lin, Ph.D., R.N., lead investigator of the new Network for Emotional Well-Being Brain Aging Research Center credits a 2017 UR CTSI Incubator grant for helping lay the foundation for the new center.