Congratulations to Dr. Joyce Gomes-Osman for being awarded a Mentored Translational Research Scholars Program Award (KL2) from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Miami!

Dr. Joyce Gomes-OsmanCongratulations to Dr. Joyce Gomes-Osman for being awarded a Mentored Translational Research Scholars Program Award (KL2) from the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Miami! This program is designed to support the research career development of early stage investigators at the assistant professor level for two years and will include: (1) 75% salary support up to the NIH Salary Cap; (2) $2,500 for travel and training-related activities; (3) $30,000 for research expenses.
Dr. Gomes-Osman is leveraging the data from her previously awarded McKnight Pilot Grant for an innovative study that will investigate mechanisms underlying cognitive benefits after an 8-week exercise intervention in sedentary adults over 55 years of age. In this study, she will combine the use of a non-invasive assessment of synaptic neuroplasticity by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), neuropsychological outcome measures, and examine potential effect modifications by genetic brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and apolipoprotein E (APOE) factors.
This KL2 Award will greatly help her advancing academic career by protecting her time for research, enabling additional training and mentorship from a multi-disciplinary group of established researchers at UMMSM (Drs. Tatjana Rundek and David Loewenstein) and Harvard (Dr. Alvaro Pascual-Leone), combining the fields of clinical and translational research in aging, genetics, neurophysiology and cognition.