CRTC Info Day scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 28 (Links to an external site)

Photo of Dr. Jennie Kwon in her lab. Kwon is a KL2 and MTPCI alum.

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).

Lung infections caused by soil fungi are a problem nationwide (Links to an external site)

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 Reliance on outdated maps […]

More frequent CT scans don’t help after lung cancer surgery (Links to an external site)

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 take diabetes education to St. Louis area school nurses

TL1 trainee Lauren Kazmier and Michelle Bockstruck

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 to the TL1 Predoctoral Training Program in Clinical and Translational Science

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, […]