Announcing Research Awardees: 2025 KL2 Scholars Award

Aug 27, 2025 | Conduits News, Edition 6

The Institutes for Translational Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ConduITS) announces the awardees of the 2025-2027 KL2 Scholars Award for Clinical and Translational Research Career Development. This career development program is funded through the Mount Sinai Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) administered through ConduITS. 

The program’s intent is to assist departmental and institute leadership across the Mount Sinai Health System in the support of junior faculty and postdoctoral fellows who have been identified as premier candidates for careers in clinical translational (C/T) research. The program fosters particular focus on the following disciplines: Precision medicine, clinical informatics, data science, computational biology, genomics, integrative neuro-resilience, exposomics, geomedicine, and implementation science. 

Congratulations to an outstanding group of KL2 Scholars and their mentors! 

  

ConduITS is supported by NCATS of the NIH’s CTSA Program. Any use of CTSA-supported resources requires citation of grant number UL1TR004419 awarded to ISMMS in the acknowledgment section of every publication resulting from this support. Adherence to the NIH Public Access Policy is also required. 

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