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Established Investigator

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Established Investigator

Opportunities for experienced investigators to acquire new research capabilities and to engage in mentor trainings to help early career researchers become more effective researchers.

Research Mentoring Training

Are you a faculty mentor or would you like to be a mentor? 

The Clinical and Translational Science Institutes (CTSI) presents up to three mentoring workshops a year to develop your competency as a mentor. The training is designed to help faculty who mentor early career researchers, whether junior faculty, postdoctoral trainees or graduate students to become more effective research and career mentors. 

The two-session workshop uses a case-based, discussion-oriented curriculum designed by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER). CIMER develops theoretically-grounded, evidence-based and culturally-responsive training materials. The training is designed to help faculty who mentor early career researchers, especially junior faculty, to become more effective research and career mentors. A randomized controlled trial of this mentoring curriculum demonstrated that this training improved the skills of mentors. 

Topics include:

  • Approaches to research mentoring  
  • Maintaining effective communications  
  • Assessing understanding 
  • Establishing expectations
  • Promoting professional development
  • Fostering independence
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Business of Science

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and partner the Fisher College of Business Executive Education, present “The Business of Science,” a workshop designed to provide faculty researchers in the health and biomedical sciences with enhanced skills in innovation, project management and team leadership. The sessions are practically oriented, interactive and introduce participants to methods they can implement immediately in their research projects.

This event is held in the fall during even numbered years.

“The program was truly transformative for me. It completely changed how I organized and mentored my team and the outcome has been far better than I expected.”

Previous Participant

“As a junior physician scientist, I found the Business of Science course extremely helpful. This course opened my eyes to thinking “outside the box” of the typical medicine and science perspective. I truly believe that the concepts and strategies outlined in the course will be invaluable in my efforts to build an effective research program and team.”

Previous Participant

“The entire program helped me as a scientist better understand how to both think of new ways to develop innovations and to market those ideas to broader non-scientific audiences.”

Previous Participant