SLeD (K Awards) Seminar Series

The Scientific Leadership and Development Seminars are targeted towards junior faculty conducting multidisciplinary clinical and translational research. We conduct multiple one-hour seminars throughout the academic year, focused on career development topics that are relevant to those who have an independent or career development K award.

• 15
  Sep

  SLeD Seminar – Book Club: “The Power of Mattering: How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Significance” by Zach Mercurio

  Sep 15, 2026

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

• 3
  Nov

  SLeD Seminar – Data Lake, Informatics and chatbot tools to work with EHR/epic

  Nov 3, 2026

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

• 1
  Dec

  SLeD Seminar – Non-NIH Funding Sources & Submitting grants in a challenging funding environment

  Dec 1, 2026

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

• 19
  Jan

  SLeD Seminar – Training for Clinical Trials and Opportunities for collaborations with Mizzou

  Jan 19, 2027

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

• 9
  Feb

  SLeD Seminar – Preparing Your Promotion Packet

  Feb 9, 2027

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

• 9
  Mar

  SLeD Seminar – Practical use of AI in research

  Mar 9, 2027

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

• 6
  Apr

  SLeD Seminar – Making K to R Transition

  Apr 6, 2027

  1:00:pm -2:30:pm

  ICTS Large Conference Room, Wohl Hospital, 3rd Floor

Who can attend?

All independent K grant awardees at the Washington University of School of Medicine are invited to attend.

Contact and registration

To register for an upcoming session, please contact crscholars@wustl.edu.

The series is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number KL2 TR002346