Three Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine early career faculty members have been named NUCATS Institute KL2 scholars.
Johnny Berona, Ph.D., research assistant professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a member of the Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing (ISGMH); Chiagozie Pickens, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care; and Ha Ngan “Milkie” Vu, Ph.D., assistant professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Behavioral Medicine, join a diverse group of past and current scholars.
The Multidisciplinary Career Development Program (KL2) is a National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS)-sponsored career development award supporting early career faculty at Northwestern. It is designed to train a diverse workforce of investigators to drive future innovation and implement effective clinical and translational research.
The program includes robust mentoring teams to assess the educational needs of the individual scholars and to provide them with personalized career development opportunities. In addition, it provides career development resources (formal coursework, peer mentoring, and career guidance) to scholars across disparate areas of expertise…
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