Based at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Translating Obesity, Metabolic Dysfunction and Comorbid Disease States (TOMADS) training program aims to provide predoctoral students with translational, interdisciplinary research training that will prepare them for an impactful career focused on research in obesity, metabolism and associated pathologies. This NIH-supported (T32-DK128770) training grant will provide support for approximately 2 years and will strive to prepare trainees to work with divergent disciplines and foster synergistic and translational research teams. Basic science and clinical faculty will offer trainees mentorship as they take part in a unique program involving seminars, meetings, didactic coursework and customized plans that meet the needs and goals of each trainee.
"To effectively treat obesity-induced pathologies, you need to have some knowledge of how obesity develops and how it's connected to that disease."- John Thyfault, Ph.D., co-principal investigator and professor of cell biology and physiology
Contact us
For questions about the training program, please contact us at tomadst32@kumc.edu or (913) 574-2882.