HTRS Mentored Research Award (MRA)

The HTRS MRA Program provides grants for fellows or junior attending/junior faculty pursuing careers in clinical, translational, or basic science research in hemostasis or thrombosis under the guidance of an experienced mentor or mentors. Since the Program’s inception in 2007, HTRS has awarded more than $9 million in grant support for 62 Mentored Research Award recipients.


  2024 MRA

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Pre-Proposal Deadline

August 14, 2023
 


2024 MRA

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Award Overview

The HTRS MRA Program provides grants for fellows or junior attending/junior faculty pursuing careers in clinical, translational, or basic science research in hemostasis or thrombosis under the guidance of an experienced mentor or mentors. Since the Program’s inception in 2007, HTRS has awarded more than $9 million in grant support for 62 Mentored Research Award recipients.

The Mentored Research Awards are meant to offer a stepping stone, on-ramp, or re-entry opportunity toward the NIH funding pipeline – specifically as a pre-K career development award (e.g. K award or equivalent).
 

 

Program Goals

  • Increase the number of skilled physician-scientists and investigators in the U.S. and Canadian medical workforce dedicated to long-term research careers in classical hematology
     
  • Support innovative research by pairing talented, promising young early-career physician-scientists and investigators with experienced mentors, many of whom are recognized leaders in clinical and/or basic science research in hemostasis and thrombosis
     
  • Provide trainees and junior faculty in the U.S. or Canada an accessible “on-ramp” into either the NIH or CIHR research pipeline by funding initial research programs that can spark and support K-award applications (or equivalent)
     
  • Upon completion of a project funded by the MRA Program, the recipient should be ready to apply for a larger-scale grant to expand their research such as a K08 or K23 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. or the equivalent from another agency such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

 

HTRS encourages applicants from historically excluded and underrepresented populations to apply, understanding that a diverse scientific workforce will, according to NIH research: foster scientific innovation, contribute to robust learning environments, improve the quality of the research, and advance the likelihood that underserved or health-disparate populations will benefit from this research.

This includes individuals from racial and ethnic groups who have been shown by the National Science Foundation to be underrepresented and/or historically excluded in health-related sciences on a national basis, as well as individuals with disabilities, students from low socioeconomic (SES) status backgrounds, individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, and women.

HTRS bases our diversity policy on that of NIH’s Interest in Diversity Notice.

In the application process, applicants will be offered the opportunity to self-identify as a member of a historically excluded and/or underrepresented population and provide a brief explanation.
 

 

General Eligibility Requirements

  1. Eligible applicants must hold an MD, MD/PhD, PhD, DO, MBBS, or an equivalent medical degree.
     
  2. Only applicants and mentors employed by academic, non-commercial institutions are eligible. Applicants must declare their intent to pursue an academic research career in hemostasis or thrombosis (or an academic research career that will have a substantial component of, or overlap with, hemostasis and/or thrombosis).
     
  3. U.S. or Canadian citizenship is not required to apply; however, award recipients must agree to live and work in the U.S. or Canada for the tenure of their MRA-funded project. Non-U.S. citizen applicants with a J1 Visa waiver – even those in their first faculty positions – are encouraged to apply, as are those with an equivalent Canadian visa.


If applicants are also eligible to apply for the Mid-Career Research Award (MCRA), HTRS strongly encourages application to the MRA before applying for the MCRA, especially if K-Award funding has not been received.
 

Questions?  Email Jennifer Ziegler, Director, Award Programs and Career Development, at [email protected].

 

 Current HTRS Mentored Research Award Recipients


Roelof Bekendam, MD, PhD

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Supported by a medical education grant from CSL Behring.

 
Gloria Gerber, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Supported by a medical education grant from Takeda.

 Previous HTRS Mentored Research Award Recipients

2022

Diego Adrianzen Herrera, MD
Larner College of Medicine at The University of Vermont
Supported by a grant from Takeda

Brandi N. Reeves, MD
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill
Supported by a medical educational grant from CSL Behring

Jordan Schaefer, MD
University of Michigan
Supported by a grant from Takeda

David Svilar, MD 
C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan
Supported by a medical educational grant from CSL Behring

2021 

Marisol Betensky, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (JHACH)
Supported by a medical educational grant from Takeda

Deirdre Nolfi-Donegan, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Supported by a medical educational grant from Takeda

Karen L. Zimowski, MD
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Emory University
Supported by an independent medical educational grant from CSL Behring

2020 

Clay T. Cohen, MD
Texas Children's Hospital
Supported by an independent medical educational grant from Takeda

Ammon M. Fager, MD, PhD
Duke University Medical Center
Supported by an educational grant from CSL Behring

Konstantine Halkidis, MD, PhD
The University of Kansas Medical Center
Sponsored by Sanofi Genzyme

Damon E. Houghton, MD, MSc
Mayo Clinic
Supported by an independent medical educational grant from Takeda

2019 

Bhavya S. Doshi, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
Supported by an educational grant from CSL Behring

Julie A. Jaffray, MD
Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California
Supported by an independent medical education grant from Takeda

Allyson M. Pishko, MD, MSCE 
University of Pennsylvania, Penn Comprehensive Hemophilia and Thrombosis Program
Supported by an educational grant from Sanofi Genzyme

Alec A. Schmaier, MD, PhD 
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Supported by an independent medical educational grant from Takeda

2018 

Shruti Chaturvedi, MBBS, MCSI 
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Supported by an independent medical educational grant from Shire

Ang Li, MD
University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle
Supported by an independent medical educational grant from Shire

Ming Y. Lim, MB BChir, MA  
University of Utah
Supported by an educational grant from Bioverative: a Sanofi Company

Deepti M. Warad, MBBS 
Mayo Clinic
Supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk

Patricia E. Zerra, MD 
Emory University
Supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk

2017 

Maissaa Janbain, MD
Tulane University
Supported by an educational grant from Bioverativ

Oluwatoyosi (Toyosi) A. Onwuemene, MD, MS
Duke University
Supported by an educational grant from Shire

Sol Schulman, MD, PhD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
Supported by an educational grant from CSL Behring

 

Michelle Sholzberg, MDCM, MSc, FRCPC 
St. Michael's Hospital, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, University of Toronto
Supported by an educational grant from Shire

Angela C. Weyand, MD 
University of Michigan
Supported by an educational grant from Novo Nordisk

2016 

Glaivy M. Batsuli, MD

Joan D. Beckman, MD, PhD

Peter H. Cygan, MD 
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Supported by a medical education grant from Bioverativ

Lindsey A. George, MD

Riten Kumar, MD, MSc 
Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University
Supported by a medical education grant from Biogen

Arash Mahajerin, MD, MSCr

2016 Mentored Research Awards supported by medical education grants from Bioverativ Therapeutics, CSL Behring, Novo Nordisk Inc., and Takeda.

2015 

Pavan K. Bendapudi, MD

Rachel S. Bercovitz, MD

Grace M. Lee, MD

Benjamin J. Samelson-Jones, MD

Anish V. Sharda, MBBS, MPH 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Supported by a medical education grant from Shire

2015 Mentored Research Awards support my medical education grants from Novo Nordisk Inc. and Takeda.

 

 Questions? 

 Contact Jennifer Ziegler, Director, Awards Programs and Career Development, [email protected].

 

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