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■ Northwestern University was recently Pediatricians interested in pursuing an awarded a new training grant (National independent research career as NIH Center for Translational Science TL1) funded scientists. We expect most designed to train post doctoral investigators pediatric applicants will be in new and innovative approaches to undertaking clinical specialty improving the care of children and fellowships. adolescents. ■ Engineers who are completing or The training program will bring together have already completed a PhD. All scientists conducting research at Lurie applicants need to complete their Children’s Hospital in downtown Chicago and PhD prior to the start of the training McCormick School of Engineering in Evanston grant. The ﬁrst funding cycle will need to apply engineering solutions to common to be awarded no later than March 1, clinical problems in children and adolescents. 2015. The second funding cycle will begin on or around July 1, 2015. The goal of the program is to train the next ■ generation of pediatricians, engineers and Big data scientists who are scientists interested in independent research completing or have already careers focused on child and adolescent obtained their PhD in health. bioinformatics, statistics or related ﬁeld.