I was featured the Scholar of the Month on the LEADS newsletter August 2020! Check it out HERE.

I am an alumni of the 1st cohort of the LEADS Program in 2017. This program was very helpful for me. It trained me to focalize my research, especially for grant writing, career coaching and development and even towards travel awards to assist to different meetings in my field. They have a very competent leadership team who were always here to assist me in all the difficult steps of advancement in my career as a researcher. We have a regular annual summit, which is the occasion to meet the new cohors of scholar, to present our work and to interact with career coach mentors and grant writing assistance, like grant mock review and step-by-step assistance.

This program was very supportive for me and I am very grateful to be part of the Alumni scholars. I wish there was more resources like this one available in this rocky and challenging field of translational research, especially for minority and underrepresented young and new investigators.

For more information on this program, check their website. This is their description: LEADS is an innovative, year-long program in Translational Research designed to meet the unique needs of junior faculty and postdocs at partnering Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) who belong to underrepresented groups, as defined by the National Institutes of Health. Scholars will develop skills in multiple areas including grant writing and team science, which are essential to launching a successful biomedical research career.