TRIO CORE COMPONENTS
ADMINISTRATIVE
Provides infrastructural support, communication, collaboration, and connectivity between TRIO’s different institutions and cores.
TRAINING
Brings together North Carolina’s three finest medical research universities and STEM schools, each contributing differing strengths, outstanding scientific programs, and leaders in KUH research as mentors.
ProFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENt
Provides outstanding multidisciplinary mentorship and individualized training environments specifically designed to enhance broad KUH research and clinical practice.
NEtWORKING
Designed to build a pipeline of talented trainees who will contribute to KUH related fields across North Carolina institutions of higher learning.
Administrative core
Creates an organizational and governance structure that allows for collaborative leadership and communication between the participating institutions and the implementing cores
Develops a real-world, evidence-based, and streamlined trainee selection and evaluation system for TRIO
Works closely with the Cores to facilitate the programming and platforms needed to create, train, and retain a rich and varied pipeline of KUH trainees.
Ronald J. Falk, MD, FACP, FASN
Co-Director
Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor
Anthony Atala, MD
Co-Director
Professor, Urology
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Thomas Ortel, MD, PhD
Co-Director
Chief, Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine, Duke University; Professor of Medicine; Professor of Pathology; Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
TRAINING core
Provides didactics and hands-on experience in rigorous basic/translational and clinical sciences research
Conducts research that includes adoption of emerging technologies and builds on the cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional team science across the KUH mission
Establishes and nourishes a community of scholars that expands and sustains representation in KUH research
Susan Hogen, PhD, MPH
Co-Director
Professor of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill
Graca Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD
Co-Director
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Steven Crowley, MD
Co-Director
Professor of Medicine, Duke University
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT CORE
Foster an interactive, and interdisciplinary community of KUH scholars across career stages to advance health care for a varied patient population living with KUH diseases
Provide skills training and professional development curricula that capitalizes on TRIO institutional and mentor strengths, provide trainees with hands-on understanding of real-world challenges in caring for patients with KUH diseases, and provide the requisite tools to initiate transformative change in their chosen research area
Develop a pipeline of mentors using interactive learning and mentorship training that reflects the continuum of KUH scholars from trainees to faculty.
Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, FRCP (Edin)
Co-Director
Drs. Ronald & Katherine Falk Eminent Professor in Nephrology, UNC Chapel Hill
Co-Director, UNC Kidney Center
James Yoo, MD, PhD
Co-Director
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Allison Ashley-Koch, PhD
Co-Director
Professor in Medicine, Duke University; Research Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Professor in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
NETWORKING core
Cultivate a vibrant pipeline of trainees poised to advance in KUH-related fields across North Carolina’s higher education institutions
Serve as a robust support system, fostering a cohesive and engaging cohort to this pipeline along their training pathway towards successful and rewarding careers in research
Connect programmatic and institutional partners across our institutions to reach a broad spectrum of trainees with various training backgrounds and wide-ranging interests in KUH research.
Keisha Gibson, MD, MPH
Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, UNC Chapel Hill
DOM Vice Chair of Diversity and Inclusion
Chief, Pediatric Nephrology Division
Director, Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship Program
Matthew Sparks, MD
Co-Director
Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University