Postdoctoral Translational Scholars Program (PTSP): The Postdoctoral Translational Scholars Program (PTSP) is a multidisciplinary career development award designed to prepare individuals with a PhD in a biomedical science or social science discipline for independent careers in translational research. The program invites a broad array of scientists from many disciplines to apply. Introdcuction: The PTSP is tailored to the individual’s research training needs, but includes the opportunity to pursue a variety of educational offerings such as a clinical immersion experience and didactic course work in regulation sciences, research ethics, biostatistics and/or specialty electives related to the person’s field of interest. Scholars are required to complete a translational research project. All scholars have a cross-disciplinary mentoring team to assist them with their career development and the research project.
Award funding can be used to support the individual’s salary, course work, and/or research activities. Postdoctoral Translational Scholars will be expected to commit 50-75% of full time effort to the program. Scholars can apply to the general PTSP and to any of the three theme-based programs, if they choose: U-M Injury Center, Metabolomics Program, and Organogenesis.
Requirements / Qualifications: Individuals with Ph.D. degrees who are interested in obtaining additional training in translational sciences and/or exposure to clinical health care. You must also be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident.
Eligibility:
- Individuals with a PhD who are interested in obtaining additional training in translational sciences
- Program provides trainees with a $100,000 career development award
- Funding can be utilized over 2-3 years
- The program begins June 1, and runs for two years.
How to Apply: Some of the items you need to include are:
1. A project budget broken down by year-one and year-two
2. Project summary/abstract with specific aims
3. Biosketches – yours and both your research mentors
4. Letters of support from a basic science mentor and a clinical mentor
5. 2 Letters of recommendation
6. Information about human subjects protections and animal use Complete application instructions can be found here: https://umms.infoready4.com/
Deadline: The application deadline is March 1, 2016, with a letter of intent due January 12, 2016. Submit your letter of intent.
Theme-based PTSP programs: The Organogenesis PTSP program supports scholars who are interested in applying a basic science research background to translational organogenesis. Other requirements are 1) engage in the Center for Organogenesis; 2) participate in an interdisciplinary working group of two or more labs focused on organ-specific research; and 3) interact with one of the UMHS Destination Programs or similar clinical programs aligned along an organ system theme.
The Metabolomics PTSP supports scholars who are interested in applying a basic research background to the emerging area of metabolomics in clinical or translational research. Potential areas of study include: interventional or epidemiological studies in human nutrition; human disease biomarker discovery; elucidation of metabolic pathways in human tissues in vitro or transplanted ectopically and evaluation of metabolism in response to disease, nutrients, drugs, environmental toxins or ionizing radiation.
The U-M Injury Center PTSP supports Ph.D. scholars trained in the fields of social science, public health, engineering, basic science, or computational science who are interested in conducting and translating injury research into practice and policy to reduce the burden of injury. Research on intentional and unintentional injury prevention and control will be supported. Potential areas of study include: transportation safety , substance abuse including prescription drug misuse and overdose, traumatic brain injury/ concussion/ or violence, such as child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, youth violence, community violence, or suicide. The relationship of injury to other public health issues, such as disparities, gender issues, health, race/ethnicity/culture, maternal/child health, mental health, and risk behavior, is also of interest.
The Head and Neck SPORE PTSP program is an interdisciplinary translational research program committed to advancing clinical and basic research in the biology, prevention and cure of head and neck squamous carcinoma. The program involves multiple collaborative translational projects and is supported by extensive Tissue Repository, Biostatistical Core and Administrative Core services. Future development of head and neck cancer translational research is critically dependent on supporting and enhancing early career development of investigators committed to cancer research, and the recruitment of superb scientists from a variety of basic science fields. There is currently a critical lack of translational scientists committed to head and neck cancer research. Our aim is to attract basic scientists to collaborate in translational research linked to one of the major Head and Neck SPORE projects for an intensive 2-yr immersion in clinical research. For more information, please contact Dr. Gregory Wolf.
Further Information: General application questions and concerns can be emailed to: Shannon Marshall, MICHR-EDU@umich.edu
Please apply for the PTSP Award through the Competition Space website–Apply Now!