Dr. Nisha Bansal, professor (Nephrology) was awarded a National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) Investigator Award to Support Mentoring of Early Career Researchers from Diverse Backgrounds (K26).
The purpose of this award is to provide protected effort and resources to established NIDDK-funded mentors to provide high-quality mentoring to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from diverse backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups.
The goal is to increase the number of early career investigators from diverse backgrounds, including from groups nationally underrepresented in biomedical, clinical, behavioral, and social sciences research, who successfully compete for NIDDK fellowships, career development awards and research project grants.
