The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a third five-year term of a National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (T32 grant) to our department. The program, entitled “Research Training in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine,” is directed by Professor Yan Xu, PhD, Vice Chair of Basic Sciences. The training faculty consists of 35 leading scientists in anesthesiology and related disciplines, including critical care medicine, surgery, computational & systems biology, neurobiology, and cognitive neuroscience. By providing rigorous and programmed training, with an emphasis on hypothesis-driven basic or clinical research, the training program aims to train clinician scientists to become future academic leaders of our specialty. The program will support three trainee positions per year beginning July 1, 2017.