T32 Faculty Mentors Requirements
Expectations for T32 Cancer Biology Faculty Mentors
- T32 Cancer Biology Training Program faculty must operate their laboratories to focus on cultivating a supportive research environment for students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, technicians, and collaborators who all together contribute to the success of the laboratory.
- Individualized development plans (IDPs) for trainees must be developed and reviewed on a regular basis to have trainees formulate their ideas and goals to allow tracking of progress, and to make adjustments to accelerate each person’s specific development.
- T32 Training faculty are expected to encourage and support fellowship applications by trainees during their period of support- i.e. NIH F-grants, K-grants and Career Development awards.
- Establishing goals with each trainee is a central feature of the T32 mentoring style, and thus together we will monitor and possibly reevaluate these goals during training to ensure that each person is able to complete their Ph.D. degrees or postdoctoral fellowships in a timely fashion with the skills, credentials, and experiences to transition into the workforce.
- T32 Training faculty will be required to complete a mentor training course every 3 years, such as the Faculty Mentoring Workshops offered at UMB by Jenn Aumiller.
- Each mentor of a funded trainee is required to co-lead one T32 Journal Club session per year.