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The Clinical Research Training Center will be hosting an Information Day on Tuesday, February 28, from 11am – 1pm. The session will focus on two postdoctoral training programs: the TL1 Postdoctoral Program and the Mentored Training Program in Clinical Investigation (MTPCI), as well as the Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI).

Andrej Spec, MD, MSCI, a former KL2 and MTPCI scholar, and Patrick Mazi, MD, MSCI, former MTPCI scholar, are part of a research team at Washington University School of Medicine who discovered that the three main kinds of soil fungi that cause lung infections have all expanded their ranges in recent decades. Reliance on outdated maps […]

Varun Puri, MD, MS, former K12 Oncology and MPTCI scholar, served as the senior author of a new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who found that undergoing more frequent computed tomography (CT) scans was not associated with improved outcomes following lung cancer surgery. […}

TL1 predoctoral trainee and 3rd year medical student at the UMKC School of Medicine, Lauren Kazmaier, recognized that caring for children with type 1 diabetes in a school setting can be extremely challenging. While this is true for many reasons, a lack of formal education and training in diabetes treatment and management by many school […]

Now accepting applications for the TL1 Predoctoral Training Program. The TL1 program provides career development for medical and allied healthcare students through didactic coursework, mentored training, work-in-progress research discussions, journal clubs, and conferences. The program includes stipend and tuition support, with an option of earning a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation Degree. Apply by February 20, […]

Life doesn’t move in a straight line and neither does a career in clinical and translational research. Such is the truth for ICTS investigator Lindsay Kuroki, MD, MSCI, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. As a research clinician working to improve […]

We would like to thank our mentors and partners, such talented and experienced people, that worked determinedly to ensure our summer research training program would be a great faculty-guided two-month clinical research experience for mentees. Most importantly, we hope that students will return back to their home institutions with new scientific knowledge and will continue […]

 We are excited that Dr. Che-Pei (Pat) Kung, TL1 alumni, was selected as a 2022 fellow for TREC (Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer), an NIH/NCI-funded program providing training opportunities for early-career scientists to carry out integrative research on energetics and energy balance in cancer.

Clinical and translational research opportunity for physician fellows who are engaged in a clinical fellowship at Washington University, University of Missouri, or Saint Louis University. The Translational Sciences Postdoctoral Program (TSPP) is part of the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and is supported by our Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). […]