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Training Program in Chronobiology, Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Award Number: T32HL170968
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, & BLOOD INSTITUTE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/01/2024
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2028

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Training Program in Chronobiology, Sleep and Sleep Disorders - ABSTRACT This new T32 research training program will provide postdoctoral fellows training in sleep and circadian research. It builds on a prior highly successful postdoctoral training program and is part of a comprehensive succession plan for T32 leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. The fellows can have PhD, MD, VMD, or MD/PhD degrees. The program provides support for each fellow for up to three years to provide the training they require to reach the next level of career advancement. The program is broad in scope. It is organized into specific tracks, each of which has a number of faculty who can act as mentors. The specific tracks are as follows: a) basic research in sleep and circadian mechanisms; b) clinical/translational research in sleep and its disorders; c) personalized medicine approaches that include development of biomarkers, genetics of complex traits, and big data approaches using electronic health records (EHR). Each track has relevant didactic courses and there are multiple Masters degree programs that fellows can pursue. There are also organized programs to teach academic survival skills—grant writing, giving scientific talks, and negotiating for a position. The program also offers the ability to collaborate with faculty at other institutions including Jackson Laboratory (mouse genetics), Geisinger Clinic (big data, genetics), and Kaiser Southern California (big data approaches). Penn developed the first medical-school wide center to facilitate sleep/circadian research in 1991 and the first multidisciplinary Sleep Medicine Division in 2001. These developments have led to Penn training the largest number of successful investigators in sleep/circadian research of any institution in the world. The program takes advantage of the infrastructure that has been developed at Penn over the past 30 years for research training. This includes the Office of Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs (BPP), the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology, the Master of Science in Translational Research, and the Master of Science in Biomedical Informatics.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $822,621 )
2025	2025	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A	PHILADELPHIA	PA	19104	PHILADELPHIA	USA	National Center on Sleep Disorders Research	000	2	12/20/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$828,283
2025	2025	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A	PHILADELPHIA	PA	19104	PHILADELPHIA	USA	National Center on Sleep Disorders Research	001	2	8/29/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$5,662
														Subtotal = $822,621

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $769,068 )
2024	2024	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A	PHILADELPHIA	PA	19104	PHILADELPHIA	USA	National Center on Sleep Disorders Research	001	1	2/22/2024	NEW	$0
2024	2024	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A	PHILADELPHIA	PA	19104	PHILADELPHIA	USA	National Center on Sleep Disorders Research	002	1	8/22/2024	NEW	$49,222
2024	2024	TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, THE	3451 WALNUT ST STE 440A	PHILADELPHIA	PA	19104	PHILADELPHIA	USA	National Center on Sleep Disorders Research	000	1	12/8/2023	NEW	$719,846
														Subtotal = $769,068

Grand Total All Awards = $1,591,689

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Training Program in Chronobiology, Sleep and Sleep Disorders

Award Number: T32HL170968

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, & BLOOD INSTITUTE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: TRAINING/TRAINEESHIP

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 01/01/2024

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 12/31/2028

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