We are pleased to share the good news that the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has notified us that our National Research Service Award Institutional Research Training Grant (T32) will be continuously funded for a fourth five-year term, with an increase of training slots from three to four positions beginning July 1, 2022. 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 includes 38 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 primarily, although not exclusively, clinician scientists to become independent and extramurally-funded investigators and research leaders in the field of anesthesiology.
Our program has been very successful in developing these future leaders. Program alumni have received major external grant funding, have risen to leadership roles both within our department and other departments at the university, and also serve in leadership roles in state and national organizations and NIH study sections. Additionally, many of our alumni have been invited to present visiting faculty lectures at institutions across the nation.
Congratulations to Dr. Xu and all the participating research faculty in directing this critical training program and for securing funding to take our T32 into the year 2027.
Full details about the T32 training program can be found in the research section of our website.