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T32 Fellowship Training Grant “Pediatric Research: Bench to Bedside to Curbside”

The program’s primary focus is career development of outstanding pediatric subspecialists with M.D. or D.O. degrees dedicated to training in basic, clinical, or translational research. Applicants should be interested in advancing the understanding of developmental and childhood origins of chronic disease throughout the lifespan. Its specific aims are to:

1. Provide fellows the opportunity to engage in high quality, interdisciplinary clinical, basic science, and/or healthcare systems research aimed at understanding developmental precursors of chronic disease;
2. Support fellows in developing thinking skills and a knowledge base that will allow them to apply basic analytical principles to understanding developmental precursors of chronic disease;
3. Foster fellows’ academic careers by providing guidance and a framework necessary for them to conduct scientifically sound, ethical, and clinically relevant research in pediatrics and developmental human biology.

This program is uniquely designed to prepare subspecialty fellows for careers in academic medicine that emphasize biomedical and biobehavioral research. The mentoring, career guidance, and research opportunities provided exceed the ABP requirement for scholarly activity for subspecialty board eligibility.

T32 Fellows are allotted 80% protected research time and benefit from individualized research and career guidance by the internal Program Executive Committee and the external Program Advisory and Oversight Committees, in addition to their discipline-specific Scholarship Oversight Committees and research mentors.

Eligibility / Selection

Fellows who will have successfully completed one year of training in one of the following Pediatric Fellowship Programs by the following July are eligible to apply between January and March of their first fellowship year.

Applicants submit a research proposal to the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics during the early spring of their first year. Proposals are reviewed and recipients are chosen by the Program Executive Committee and announced in late spring. We encourage potential applicants to discuss applying for this prestigious award with their Program Director prior to beginning their fellowship or during their first few months of training.

Past Awardees and Research Projects