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Path to K

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Path to K

The Path to K Mentored Career Development Grant provides up to two years of support to faculty from health science colleges working toward writing an NIH K award.

Path to K Program

The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), The Office of Research and The Ohio State University College of Medicine have partnered to create an innovative career development program whose purpose is to train biomedical researchers and prepare them for a successful K grant application. The CTSI, Office of Research and Ohio State College of Medicine Path to K Program supports the career development of investigators who have made a commitment to conduct either patient-oriented or translational research. The Path to K Grant is available for a period of up to two years (contingent on satisfactory progress).

Research funded: 

  • Epidemiological and behavioral studies  
  • Health outcomes and health services research  
  • Research with human tissues, specimens and cognitive phenomena 
  • Mechanisms of human disease therapeutic interventions  
  • Clinical trials
  • Development of new technologies

Early career junior faculty on the tenure or clinical track from the following health sciences colleges at The Ohio State University are eligible to apply: College of Dentistry, College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Optometry, College of Pharmacy, College of Public Health and College of Veterinary Medicine.

The Path to K grant is designed to benefit a wide spectrum of clinical and/or translational researchers across Ohio State. The grant provides salary support to ensure protected time for mentored research and didactic training in clinical and translational research across a wide variety of project topics and academic areas. The overall goal of the program is to equip early career investigators to advance on the path to be competitive for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) K Career Development Grants (or equivalent).

Program preference will be given to junior faculty members on the tenure or clinical track with fewer than three years since their appointment, but junior faculty with three or more years since their appointment are eligible to apply.

Release Date

January 2, 2025

Information Session

January 15, 2025 at 12 p.m. EST

Register for the Information Session

Letter of Intent Due

February 10, 2025 at midnight

Application Due

March 30, 2025 at midnight

Path to K Budget Form (Word Document)

Path to K RFA (PDF)

Download the Path to K RFA

Professional Trainings

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Professional Trainings

Recurring trainings for those early in their research career.

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Business of Science

The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and partner the Fisher College of Business Executive Education, present “The Business of Science,” a workshop designed to provide faculty researchers in the health and biomedical sciences with enhanced skills in innovation, project management and team leadership. The sessions are practically oriented, interactive and introduce participants to methods they can implement immediately in their research projects.

This event is held in the fall during even numbered years.

Read more about the event

Research Mentoring Training

Are you a faculty mentor or would you like to be a mentor? 

The Clinical and Translational Science Institutes (CTSI) presents up to three mentoring workshops a year to develop your competency as a mentor. The training is designed to help faculty who mentor early career researchers, whether junior faculty, postdoctoral trainees or graduate students to become more effective research and career mentors. 

The two-session workshop uses a case-based, discussion-oriented curriculum designed by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER). CIMER develops theoretically-grounded, evidence-based and culturally-responsive training materials. The training is designed to help faculty who mentor early career researchers, especially junior faculty, to become more effective research and career mentors. A randomized controlled trial of this mentoring curriculum demonstrated that this training improved the skills of mentors. 

Topics include:

  • Approaches to research mentoring  
  • Maintaining effective communications  
  • Assessing understanding 
  • Establishing expectations
  • Promoting professional development
  • Fostering independence

Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series

The Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series is for predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees and early career clinical and translational scientists.

Clinical and Translational Research Seminar Series

The 21st Annual Ohio Mass Spectrometry Symposium

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Ohio State appoints new leader of translational research, receives $37.9M NIH grant

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Julie Johnson, PharmD, as director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), associate dean for Clinical and Translational Research in The Ohio State University College of Medicine and associate vice president of Research for The Ohio State University. She will also hold the Dr. Samuel T. and Lois Felts Mercer Professorship of Medicine and Pharmacology.

As director of the CCTS, Johnson is the principal investigator of a seven-year $37.9 million Clinical and Translation Science Award from the National Institutes of Health, which funds the center’s work to turn scientific discoveries into clinical therapies that improve human health for all. The grant supports collaborative research by Ohio State, Ohio State Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children's Hospital. This is the CCTS’ fourth cycle of NIH funding since 2008. 

With a health equity lens, this new grant will focus on the development of innovative methods and approaches to address roadblocks in clinical and translational research, support workforce development, increase collaboration across academic and scientific disciplines and expand access to research technologies.

Read more about Dr. Johnson and how the grant supports the work of the CCTS

Julie Johnson, PharmD, is the Director and Principal Investigator at The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 

Marketing and Communication Program Highlight

Between the two of them, they create and send out all communications from the CCTS including the monthly newsletters, e-blasts and social media in addition to maintaining the website and developing content for other blogs and articles. While the department is busy ensuring fluid communications of all things translational science and sharing out stories about the work the CCTS is doing, they are also working on some exciting new updates! 

The marketing and communications team is preparing the CCTS website for a complete makeover in 2024 to make it more accessible and user-friendly. The goal is for the website to be an easy-to-use, accessible resource for students, faculty, staff, research scientists and community members who utilize our services. The recently awarded Clinical and Translational Science Award from the NIH frames the work of the CCTS with a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility lens therefore, accessibility is a core focus, and all communications are carefully reviewed to ensure accessibility for all.

The marketing and communications department also oversees Meta advertising for the recruitment and retention program. The CCTS has used Meta ads since 2019, and as of October 2023, our ads have had over 320,000 clicks and have reached almost eight million people. Due to this success, the marketing and communications specialist, Brooke Crockett, has presented on using Meta advertising for study recruitment to many national groups and will be speaking at a Trial Innovation Network webinar on November 6, 2023. The webinar is open to all who may be interested in the topic.

Register for the Webinar

Julie Johnson, PharmD, is the Director and Principal Investigator at The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 

2023 ATRN Health Summit Highlight

The 13th Annual ATRN Health Summit is a two-day event that was held October 5 and 6, 2023 at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. The ATRN is a 501c3 organization comprised of nine academic and medical institutions and multiple community-based organizations. This event gave the research community an opportunity to share their presentations with attendees regarding their projects.

Dr. Seuli Brill, Chief of the Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Section and Research Director for The Ohio State University Division of General Internal Medicine, was the ATRN Summit Keynote Speaker on Day Two of the event with her presentation: A Tale of Two Counties: Building Infrastructure and Access to Promote Maternal Health Equity in Ohio Appalachia.  

Other presentations by The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital include:

  • How to Effectively Utilize Undergraduate Interns in Recruitment and Enrollment by Madison Tichter, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Social Determinants of Health, Racioethnicity, and Severe Maternal Mortality Comorbidity Risk and Emergency Department Visits during Pregnancy by Naleef Fareed, The Ohio State University
  • Conducting a Community Scientist Academy to Prepare Stakeholders for Engagement in Research by Jeff Grever, The Ohio State University
  • Pediatric Cancer Symptoms Reported by Child-Caregiver Dyads and Associations with Rural and Appalachian Residency by Ashley Benhayoun, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Unlocking the Secret Connection: Appalachian and Medically Underserved Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant Patients Experience Higher Rates of Disease Relapse by Olivia Kuns, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Leveraging School-based Healthcare as a Health Equity Strategy in Appalachia by Mary Kay Irwin, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Per Capita Density of Tobacco Retailors in Rural Ohio by Megan Roberts, The Ohio State University
  • Community Advisory Board of Southeast Ohio: Collaboration Between Community and Researchers by Beverly Stringer, The Ohio State University
  • Effects of a Tele-Health Intervention on Physical Activity and Physical Activity Self-efficacy: Results of the Home-based Exercise in Rural Ohio (HERO) Trial by Zachary L. Chaplow, The Ohio State University

If you are interested in becoming involved with the ATRN please reach out to Beverly Stringer (Beverly.stringer@osumc.edu ) for more information.

Julie Johnson, PharmD, is the Director and Principal Investigator at The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 

Jessica Fritter Named Ohio ACRP Chapter President

Jessica works with The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) workforce development team and is a faculty member in Ohio State’s College of Nursing Master of Clinical Research program where she teaches and develops courses fundamental to clinical research education. As the Ohio Chapter president, she will support clinical research professionals across the state through specialized educational resources and networking opportunities. 

To better serve the clinical research community in Ohio, the ACRP officially launched a statewide Ohio chapter in October 2023. The chapter will serve research professionals across the state of Ohio through training, development and certification.

Learn more about the Ohio Chapter

Julie Johnson, PharmD, is the Director and Principal Investigator at The Ohio State University Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 

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