Career Development

Spotlight: Promoting STEMM Career Development for Underrepresented Groups

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Angela Byars-Winston

Workforce Development & Higher Education | Angela Byars-Winston

Goal: To examine the cultural influences on career development, especially for racial and ethnic minorities and women in the sciences, engineering, and medicine.

ICTR Support: Her KL2 Scholar Award provided protected time, mentoring, and introductions to UW collaborators in mentoring research.

Outcome: As a local & national leader related to the field of mentor & mentee training and its potential to influence the commitment of women and underrepresented ethnic minorities to careers in STEMM, she was named a White House Champion of Change in 2011. More recently, she was appointed to the Board on Higher Education and Workforce (BHEW) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Currently a UW Department of Medicine associate professor & co-investigator in the UW-Madison Mentor Training core of the National Research Mentoring Network.

Byars-Winston, A, et al. New Measures Assessing Predictors of Academic Persistence for Historically Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Undergraduates in Science. CBE-Life Sciences Education. 2016. 16(3).

Dept of Medicine News: National Workshop Focuses on Effective Mentoring Strategies in STEMM Fields

New Postdoctoral Training Program Provides Bridge to Translational Science Research Careers

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Three researchers in white coats at a microscope.

Next month, ICTR will begin screening applicants for our newest Career Development offering, a TL1 Postdoctoral Training program. With an application deadline of March 6, this new program joins the KL2 Scholars Program, the existing TL1 Predoctoral Program, and the Advancing Health Equity and Diversity (AHEAD) Pilot Grant Awards as part of our expanding portfolio for Workforce Development. Rob Lemanske, ICTR Deputy Executive Director, comments,

Our workforce development team is both motivated and enthusiastic about offering this new training program. It represents one of the largest revisions to our career development offerings since the inception of the predoctoral TL1 and KL2 programs in 2009 after ICTR was first funded by the NIH.

We designed this program to bridge the gap for junior investigators who have already completed some postdoctoral-style training, but who need more time to develop the full potential of their prior research to become successful and innovative scholars who can function within, and significantly contribute to, the translational research space both independently and/or as part of collaborative teams.

Because this program was developed as part of our renewal application to the CTSA program last fall, funding is contingent upon successful renewal of the NIH CTSA award.

The new Postdoctoral Program is intended for individuals already having a doctoral degree (MD, PhD, DVM, PharmD, etc.) and will support research projects along the entire translational research spectrum. There are two paths for applicants. One path is for applicants who currently hold, or will successfully obtain at the time of enrollment, a non-tenure track faculty title (CHS, Clinical Track). A second path is for applicants who have a departmental commitment that they will be appointed to the UW Madison faculty (tenure track or non-tenure track title series) upon successful completion of the TL1 Postdoctoral award. In addition to other program activities, trainees must complete coursework required for the ICTR Fundamentals of Clinical Research Certificate.

If you are interested in applying to the program, but missed the required information sessions, please contact Ana Garic for more information and instructions on how to access video recordings of the sessions.

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TL1 Post-Doctoral Training Program

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This NIH-funded TL1 Post-Doctoral Trainee Program will provide a firm foundational pathway to bridge between previous doctoral training (MD, PharmD, DVM, PhD, etc.) and future independent and sustained careers in translational and clinical sciences. The program supports Trainees conducting research along the entire translational research spectrum. Upon completion of the TL1 Postdoctoral appointment, we expect Trainees will be poised to successfully compete for institutional KL2/K12/other career development and/or extramural funding.

Eligibility is limited to applicants who are, or will be, in a non-tenure track faculty title series or academic staff with a UW faculty mentor.  We select trainees who, upon successful completion of the TL1 Postdoctoral award, are highly competitive for faculty appointments at UW Madison, or other major translational research institutions (tenure track or non-tenure track title series).

The program has a bi-annual admission policy. As such, applications are accepted quarterly during the calendar year.  Ordinary application deadlines are April 1 and October 1.  Special applications dates are available on Jan 1 and July 1 for individuals not currently at UW, who are considering UW trainee appointments, if awarded. All applicants must indicate their intent to apply at least 1 week prior to deadlines.  Regardless of application time, start dates are January 1 and July 1 of each calendar year.

Back to main Career Development Award page.