Institutional Training Grants
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offer competitive funding to institutions to develop or enhance research training opportunities for predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows. These grants are known as "institutional training grants", and fall under various funding mechanisms including T32s and TL1s. UTMB currently holds 12 of these prestigious "T" awards in various areas of study reflecting the quality and success of our training, mentoring, and graduate programs.
The current list of Institutional Training grants for predocs and postdocs on our campus is as follows:
Training Program | Director/PI | Training Type | Website |
| Clinical & Translational Research Award (CTSA) - TL1 | Jonathan Hommel, PhD | Predoc & Postdoc | TL1 Website |
| Molecular Mechanisms of Environmental Injury | Bill Ameredes, PhD | Predoc & Postdoc | T32 Contacts Link |
| Biodefense Training Program | Ashok Chopra, PhD & Scott Weaver, PhD | Predoc | T32 Biodefense Link |
| Emerging and Tropical Infectious Diseases | Lynn Soong, MD, PhD | Predoc | T32 Contact Link |
| Training in Alzheimer's Pathophysiology | Rakez Kayed, PhD | Predoc & Postdoc | T32 Contact Website Link |
| Neural and Pharmacological Mechanisms of Abused Drugs | Kathryn Cunningham, PhD | Predoc & Postdoc | T32 Homepage Link |
| UTMB Health Services Research Training Program | Yong-Fang Kuo, PhD | Predoc | T32 Contact Link |
| Health of Older Minorities | Rebecca Wong, PhD | Predoc & Postdoc | T32 Health of Older Minorities |
| Training Physician-Scientists in Emerging Infectious Diseases | Peter Melby, MD
& Slobodan Paessler, DVM, PhD | Postdoc (MDs only) | T32 Physician-Scientist Training in Infectious Disease |
| Surgical Research Training in GI Diseases | Ravi Radhakrishnan, MD | Postdoc (MDs only) | T32 Contact Link |
Infectious Diseases and Inflammatory Disorders Training Program | Tian Wang, PhD & Lynn Soong, MD, PhD | Predoc (Medical students only between 1st & 2nd year) | T35 Med Student 8-week Training Program Link |
| Postdoctoral Training in Trauma and Burns | Steven Wolf, MD | Postdoc (MDs only) | T32 Director Dr. Wolf Contact Info |