UTMB Health's Family Medicine & Community Health is proud to announce that Courtney Ortz, PhD, MSW was 1 of 2 nominees selected by UTMB for submitting a grant proposal to the American Diabetes Association.
To accelerate the research needed to stop diabetes, the American Diabetes Association’s bold transformational initiative, Pathway to Stop Diabetes, is inspiring a new generation of diabetes researchers. Pathway provides crucial support to individuals focusing on innovative ideas and transformational approaches that will lead to groundbreaking discoveries in diabetes prevention, management, and cures. They are building a human pathway to tackle the toughest questions in diabetes by driving research innovations through 1:1 mentorship and the creation of a brain trust in diabetes.
The call for nominations prioritizes translational applications that move knowledge and discovery gained from basic research to its eventual translation into patient and population benefit. The ideal applicant will propose innovative research that will be an important step towards the eventual goal of improving the lives of people at risk of diabetes or living with the disease. Their vision is to create a pathway to launch the next generation of trailblazers in diabetes research.