Career Development awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), also known as K awards, play an important role in the career trajectory of physician scientists and researchers. For its most recent Connection Seminar, the Miami CTSI hosted a panel discussion featuring K awardees, who shared their advice for applying for these awards.

Since 2020, outreach efforts led by a statewide coalition funded by the NIH and supported by the Miami CTSI have helped to address vaccine hesitancy and increase minority participation in COVID vaccine trials.

With a 5-year, $1 million K23 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Swarup Swaminathan, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at the Miller School of Medicine and Miami CTSI Pilot Awardee, is working on techniques to identify glaucoma in patients sooner.