Guidance for diabetes translation researchers planning NIH training, fellowship, career-development, supplement, and workforce-development pathways.
GCDTR supports investigators at multiple career stages by connecting training plans, mentor teams, preliminary data, core consultation, enrichment programming, and diabetes translation research aims. Use these pages as local planning guides before confirming current eligibility, deadlines, and requirements in the official funding opportunity announcement.
Build core diabetes research skills, identify mentors, and prepare for fellowship or institutional training opportunities.
Open pathwayMove from supervised training toward a defined research niche, preliminary products, and career-development readiness.
Open pathwayPrepare mentored career-development applications with protected time, training plans, and a path to independence.
Open pathwaySupport mentoring, reskilling, interdisciplinary expansion, and diabetes research workforce development.
Open pathwayUse seminars, works-in-progress sessions, and peer groups to refine aims, biosketches, training plans, and manuscript ideas.
Engage GCDTR cores for study design, socio-behavioral methods, technology strategy, implementation planning, and evaluation.
Use data repository resources, pilot planning, publications, and community partnerships to strengthen readiness for funding.