Project Grant T32TR005445

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences awarded the University of Massachusetts Medical School $328,040 on August 15, 2026, under the CTSA Predoctoral T32 training program (Assistance Listing 93.350) to develop a two-year predoctoral training program in clinical and translational science. The program will recruit three cohorts of six doctoral students with guaranteed funding across rigorous doctoral programs in nursing, MD/PhD, population health sciences, epidemiology, gerontology, and engineering offered across the UMass five-campus system. Training will integrate trainees into the University of Massachusetts Center for Clinical and Translational Science's team mentoring, research resources, and educational offerings, developing participants' knowledge, skills, and abilities as boundary crossers, team scientists, communicators, systems thinkers, and process innovators. Performance occurs in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a completion date of August 14, 2031. The award supports recruitment and retention of outstanding predoctoral trainees with diverse scientific discipline and socioeconomic backgrounds.