NTP is proud to announce one of the recipients of the 2024 UW Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) TL1 Predoctoral Training Program, our NTP student Uma Chatterjee! Congratulations!
The UW ICTR TL1 Predoctoral Training Award is an NIH-supported educational program with a goal to train future clinical and translational leaders and to expose all UW health-care professionals to the scientific foundation of this discipline. This training program builds on strong pre-existing programs at UW, and the award provides support for a 2 year mentored research training program in translational science for predoctoral students.
Uma Chatterjee is a student from our NTP 2023 Cohort. She will be working on a project titled “Characterizing the region-specific roles of candidate risk genes in the pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)” under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Cahill.
Uma is grateful for the TL1 award’s support in furthering her translational research of OCD and other debilitating & understudied neuropsychiatric disorders. She also looks forward to the TL1 program’s life sciences communication training to further develop her skills as a mental health advocate and science communicator bridging the gap between research and lived experience communities.