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Program Description
The KL2 Mentored Career Development Program at Mayo Clinic is a two- to five-year program funded by the Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science Activities (CTSA). The program leads to a postdoctoral master's degree in clinical research and a successful career as an independent clinician investigator. Mayo Clinic is actively recruiting a diverse team of research scholars representing leading-edge and varied clinical research disciplines for this program.
The KL2 program combines didactic course work and a mentored research experience to produce leaders of multidisciplinary research teams that will advance the biological and technological discoveries into the best practices of disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment in the 21st century.
The KL2 program provides a personalized didactic program designed to meet the needs of future research leaders, protected time and other resources to enable clinical research scholars to accomplish a structured practical research experience. All KL2 participants conduct a multidisciplinary clinical research project under the guidance of a well-established Mayo Clinic senior investigator.
Some scholars who successfully complete the program will be awarded a Master's Degree in Clinical and Translational Science. You will be prepared to apply for future extramural research grants as an independent investigator and to pursue an academic career in clinical research.
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Support Provided
While you are enrolled in Mayo Clinic's KL2 Mentored Career Development Program, you will receive: While you are enrolled in Mayo Clinic's Clinical Research Scholar Program, you will receive:
- Stipend or salary to support the proportional effort (75-100 percent) committed to the program, commensurate with the appropriate Mayo Clinic appointment category (e.g. clinical or research fellow, associate consultant, research associate, Mayo Foundation Scholar, etc.). Compensation will be provided up to the NIH legislative cap and may be supplemented by the sponsoring department according to institutional guidelines.
- Research support (typically $25,000 per year) to be used to augment your research project, which can be used for 1) research expenses, such as supplies, equipment and technical personnel; 2) statistical services including personnel and computer time; and 3) other project infrastructure including relevant data sets.
- Other support to cover tuition, fees and books related to career development, travel expenses to the annual National Institutes of Health Clinical Research Scholars Meeting and one additional training or scientific meeting per year.
- Support of $5,000 per year for your primary Mayo mentor and comentor to compensate for their efforts.
Those appointed as clinical or research fellows receive benefits as defined by the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education.
Those appointed as associate consultants, research associates, etc., will be considered Mayo Clinic consulting faculty and their benefits will be determined by Mayo Clinic Human Resources.
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