$47 M
Amount of direct annual funding for training faculty. Our T32 mentors have an exceptional record of extramural funding, with average funding per mentor of $667,293.Multidisciplinary Research Training in Respiratory Disease (T32)
Welcome to our T32 research training program. We have designed our program to provide research trainees with a comprehensive, integrative, and formal career development experience that will help establish the next generation of leaders in lung health and disease. Our research training program has been supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health since 1975, and is one of the largest research training program in pulmonary sciences in the country. While our program has a storied past that brings us a great deal of pride, we have focused our T32 on the future of pulmonary medicine, continually growing and changing to create the most exciting training opportunities, adapting to the expanding research interests of our trainees, and providing cutting-edge research training opportunities in an extremely dynamic and rapidly evolving scientific environment. Our programmatic vision is to:
- Train the next generation of highly skilled and innovative scientific leaders in PCCM
- Provide cutting-edge research training opportunities in broad areas of lung health and disease
- Ensure access to a wide range of pioneering methodology/technology to enrich the training experience
- Achieve the highest standard of excellence for mentorship and research training
- Foster values that sustain and enrich research careers in PCCM
- Provide a training environment that empowers individual growth within team settings and a culture that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and personal wellness
73
Total number of participating faculty. Our mentors represent 3 schools and 9 departments with a broad range of disease-specific research expertise.352
Publications of our mentor/trainee pairs. Number includes submitted or soon to be submitted manuscripts by current trainees.
1975
Year that our training grant first received support from the NHLBI. Since that time, PSCCM has carried out productive research in lung disease.
111
Number of trainees supported on this grant since 2008. 67% of our former trainees remain in academic medicine. 38 of our trainees have been awarded a total of 65 federal and private grants.33
New faculty recruits to PSCCM since 2014, representing the most expansive decade in the history of the training program.