Project: Developing a Single-Session Intervention to Support Adolescent Siblings of Children with Cancer​

“This K12 Award will provide the research data, experience, and skills I require to launch an independent research career. By adapting a digital single-session intervention to support adolescent siblings of children with cancer, this study seeks to shift the current clinical practice paradigm by using an accessible, scalable, and cost-effective service model to address significant gaps in the provision of evidence-based care for adolescent siblings.” 

Project: Utilizing natural language processing to identify language biomarkers unique to childhood onset psychosis

“The KL2 award will provide me with both the time and support critical to advance my research career along the path to independence”.

Project: Brain stimulation/neurophysiological methods

“With the support of the KL2 award, I can dedicate myself to professional growth, leverage pilot data to secure research grants, foster numerous collaboration opportunities, and establish a cutting-edge research laboratory”.

Project: A deep learning approach to predicting disease progression in oral dysplasia and early-stage malignancy

“The KL2 Career Development Award will provide me with invaluable protected time and expert mentorship, enabling me to concentrate on enhancing my research training and productivity”.

Mentor: Nancy E. Reichman, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Co-Mentor: Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH, Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Development
Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Project: Father’s Mental Health and Their Children’s Health and Development

“The KL2 award offers me the chance to build a strong research foundation and build collaborations that support my transition from clinical work to physician researcher”.

Project: Engineering aligned neuromuscular junctions to enhance repair after volumetric muscle loss

“The KL2 Program allows me to have protected time to focus on writing manuscripts with my students, collecting pilot data, and preparing R01 submissions.” 

Mentor: Shawna Hudson, PhD, FSBM, Professor
Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Project: Development and Implementation of a youth-led education digital badge to improve blood pressure for hypertensive adults who present to the emergency department

“The KL2 award has been a catalyst for mentorship and networking with new collaborators to lay a solid foundation for larger funding opportunities.” 

Mentor: Daniel Notterman, MD, Professor
Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Co-Mentor: Abraham Aviv, MD, Professor
Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School

Project: Telomere length and COVID-19 outcomes in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients

 “The KL2 program provides me the opportunity to establish myself and achieve research independence in the translational sciences.” 

Mentor: Brian Strom, MD, MPH, Chancellor and University Professor
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences

Project: New Jersey historical population cohort study: The rate of mortality before and after the 2014 Medicaid expansion in those with diagnosed symptomatic gallstone disease

“The KL2 community provides a laboratory using inclusion as its catalyst. Here, I am welcome to cultivate a new research career mainly through my learned trust of able mentors who patiently guide a very personalized development along a professional path less traveled by an emergency surgeon.” 

Mentor: Stephen Crystal, PhD, Board of Governors Professor
Rutgers University School of Social Work

Project: Cannabis use during preconception, pregnancy and lactation

 “The protected time to conduct research and networking opportunities are invaluable in this early stage of my career.” 

Mentor: Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences School of Public Health

Project: Hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia associated with drugs used by older adults for diabetes

“The resulting research and manuscripts from the KL2 will serve as the foundation to future R01 awards.” 

Mentor: Paul Duberstein, PhD,  Chair and Professor
Department of Health Behavior, Society and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health

Project: Health mindfulness to alleviate stress for caregivers of cognitively impaired older adults

“This grant has helped me meet new collaborators, which resulted in publications in new research areas and allowed me to collect pilot data for larger grant submissions.” 

Mentor: Fredric Wondisford, MD, Professor and Chair
Department of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Project: Glycerol contribution to hepatic gluconeogenesis in obesity

“The KL2 program allowed me to decrease my clinical responsibilities and focus on obtaining formal research training, conducting translational research, and submitting manuscripts and grants.”