Established Investigator Career Development

Established investigators can use career development and training resources to expand into new methods, support mentees, build institutional training capacity, and strengthen diabetes research workforce development. NIH pathways may include institutional career development roles, administrative supplements, mentoring-focused activities, or training programs that support the next generation of investigators.

Primary Goals

Extend diabetes translation research into new areas such as implementation science, data science, technology, policy, or community-partnered methods.
Support trainees and junior faculty through structured mentoring and grant-development pathways.
Build programs that strengthen institutional research capacity and diversify the diabetes research workforce.

Possible NIH Paths

Institutional training and career development programs where senior faculty serve as mentors or program leaders.
Administrative supplements that support eligible trainees, early-career investigators, or workforce priorities.
Career-stage opportunities for investigators expanding into new methods or fields.

GCDTR Connections

Partner with enrichment programming for workshops, works-in-progress sessions, and peer working groups.
Use cores to support multi-investigator proposals and cross-disciplinary methods development.
Connect mentees to repository data, pilot funding, and publication support.

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Program Development Prompts

Mentoring Infrastructure

Define mentor expectations, mentor training, meeting structure, review checkpoints, and accountability for trainee progress.

Training Capacity

Identify courses, workshops, data resources, community partnerships, and research experiences that form a coherent training environment.

Workforce Outcomes

Track publications, grants, career advancement, collaboration, retention, and contributions to diabetes translation research.