University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Education, Training, and Career Development - Translational Workforce Development (TWD)

The CCTSI's Translational Workforce Development Core consists of education, training and career development programs. TWD provides clinical-translational scientists, Research Service Professionals and trainees with knowledge, training and career skills to conduct efficient and rigorous clinical and translational science and research. TWD programs span critical periods, from the beginning of research training at the pre-doctoral level through senior faculty. The aim of the TWD is to create a robust local workforce and a national leadership pool for clinical-translational research.

	Pre and Post Doctoral Trainees	Research Service Professionals	Early Career Investigator	Mid-Career Investigator	Senior Career Investigator
Atlas.ti	X	X	X	X	X
Center for Innovative Design & Analysis (CIDA)	X	X	X	X	X
Clinical Faculty Scholars Program (CFSP)			X
Clinical Science Graduate Program (CLSC)	X	X	X	X
CO-Mentor (completed by mentor-mentee dyads)			X	X	X
Communicating Your Science to the Public	X	X	X	X	X
I-Corps@CCTSI (completed as team)	X	X	X	X	X
K12-Scholar Award			X
Leading and Teaming	X	X	X	X	X
Mentoring³: Mentor, Mentee, Peer	X			X	X
Pre F Grant Review and Mock Study Section	X
Pre K Grant Review and Mock Study Section			X
Pre R Grant Review and Mock Study Section			X	X
Regulatory Knowledge and Support	X	X	X	X	X
Research Studios			X	X	X
Researcher Management and Leadership (Coursera)	X		X
T32 Pre-Doc Trainee Award	X
T32 Post-Doc Trainee Award	X

Grant Administration Essentials: A Video Guide for Research Professionals

In this informational video below, Tim Lockie, Director of Finance and Administration at the CCSTI, shares foundational guidance on grant administration. Whether you're navigating your first NIH submission or managing multiple awards, this video offers practical insights into the essential processes and best practices that support successful research funding.

CCTSI Research Service Professionals (RSP) Programs

While many CCTSI offerings are designed for early-career MDs or PhDs, we also have programs that are perfect for Research Service Professionals.

The Communicating Your Science to the Public workshop series can help sharpen your ability to discuss your projects with potential participants.
Leading and Teaming in Clinical Translational Science will boost your skills and effectiveness as part of a team.
ATLAS.ti is a qualitative data analysis software designed to help you manage and analyze non-numerical data, text, video, audio and graphics. We offer an asynchronous, self-paced course.
Work towards your master's or doctoral degree in the Clinical Science Graduate Program. Courses are free for admitted students who are Research Service Professionals and who are CU employees. Many RSP's participate in the CLSC program, below are a couple testimonials:
- “As a Clinical Research Coordinator, I was seeking a challenge to be able to catapult my career. I've had a lot of experience implementing various types of clinical trials and assisting with their development and presentation. Through the CLSC program I have been able to share my unique perspective with other future researchers and apply my previous knowledge. The program is designed to be flexible for those of us that are working full-time and have families. This was important to me as a first-generation student navigating a doctorate degree. It has also given me the freedom to explore electives that are of particular interest to me such as health policy and health cost effectiveness. These are new skills that I can apply as a future PI once I complete the program and obtain my PhD.”
- “I received my MPH in Epidemiology from Boston University in 2011 and worked at a state health department as an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist for 6 years. In 2018, my husband and I moved to CO and I took a position as a Research Services Senior Professional in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) Division within the CU Anschutz OB/GYN Department- allowing me to shift my career into academia and focus on my true passion of maternal-child health research and data management. I had always wanted to get my PhD but could never find the “right” program for me. I was looking for a program specific to clinical research (mainly related to data management and use of medical record data for research) that was also geared to individuals who were already working full-time. In 2020, I enrolled in the CLSC Clinical Science PhD program, in the Health Information Technology track. This program was just what I was looking for! It has allowed me to enhance my skills as a clinical researcher and allowed me to focus on skills related to data management and using “big data” for clinical research. The program has truly made me feel like a subject matter expert and has allowed me to grow the research program within the MFM Division.”
CCTSI's annual Pediatric Research Poster Sessions are the perfect place to share a poster about your research work or listen to other poster presenters and network with fellow researchers.
The CU-CSU Summit conference is a daylong academic conference designed to encourage research collaboration and provide learning opportunities on a timely research topic.