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Career Conversations: Perspectives on Navigating Funding and Collaborations Beyond NIH

Webinars for early-stage investigators who are pursuing careers at academic health centers.

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Goals

  • Explore various career pathways in clinical and translational science.
  • Learn about alternative funding and collaboration opportunities beyond NIH sources and partners.
  • Explore practical strategies to acquire funding, nurture partnerships, and sustain a career at an academic health center.

In these webinars, researchers from academic health centers share their perspectives and experiences on navigating their career pathways in the current funding and collaboration environment, which means seeking sources in and beyond the NIH. Focusing on cross-cutting core competencies across intersecting themes, such as communication, mentorship, networking and collaboration, each one-hour session will include short presentations and a discussion moderated by a researcher.

Explore our Past Sessions page for past webinars on other topics from this series.

Session dates

Session 3: Networking and Collaboration
December 18, 2026 | 12:00pm ET
Registration deadline: December 17, 2026 | 12:00pm ET

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Meet the Presenters

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Meet the Moderator

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Time commitment

One-hour sessions on Zoom.

Audience

These sessions are designed for early-career researchers from the clinical and translational science (CTS) community who are interested in pursuing funding beyond NIH sources, developing a diverse funding portfolio, and collaborating across sectors and industries. In addition, attendees who are broadly interested in learning about what it looks like to build and sustain a CTS career by acquiring alternative funding sources and partnerships are welcome to participate.

Eligibility

There are no eligibility requirements.

We believe that the research community is strengthened by understanding how a number of factors including gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, culture, religion, national origin, language, disability, and age shape the environment in which we live and work, affect each of our personal identities, and impacts all areas of human health.

Register

Registration will open in November 2026.