{"doi":"10.1017/cts.2025.10108","title":"A scaffolded training series to develop Clinical and Translational Researchers in Hawai‘i","abstract":"We describe a training series using a scaffolded approach informed by Vygotsky's Learning Theory to advance Hawai'i -based faculty grant-writing skills. Sponsored by the Professional Development Core of the Center for Pacific Innovations, Knowledge, and Opportunities (PIKO) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, the initiative includes a 2-week series of 1-hour introductory sessions on aspects of grant writing, a 3-session workshop to develop a specific aims page, and a 5-month training program in grant writing. Over three years, 202 Hawai'i investigators attended at least one 1-hour introductory session, 62 completed the workshop on preparing specific aims, and 30 completed the 5-month training on grant writing. Participants rated all 3 programs as very useful. Of the 62 unique investigators who completed the Specific Aims Workshop, 21 (33%) submitted PIKO pilot grant applications, 4 (6%) submitted grants elsewhere, and 16 (30%) applied to the 5-month training on grant writing. The 30 GUMSHOE participants reported significant gains in their confidence in accomplishing 21 proposal-writing tasks and, as of May 2025, 26 (87%) submitted grants to the National Institutes of Health or another external funder. This scaffolded training approach is labor- and time-intensive for trainees and faculty mentors, but our outcomes demonstrate its success.","journal":"Journal of Clinical and Translational Science","year":2025,"id":571397,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":0,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9577,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2025-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":342113,"name":"F. David Horgen","orcid":"0000-0001-9409-3030","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":264614,"name":"Dedra Buchwald","orcid":"0000-0002-9005-0110","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":518889,"name":"Claire Townsend Ing","orcid":"0000-0002-4632-5973","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":463316,"name":"Spero M. Manson","orcid":"0000-0001-6194-1961","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":511605,"name":"Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula","orcid":"0000-0001-5076-6141","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1173427,"name":"Kathryn L. Braun","orcid":"0000-0002-1586-0252","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":451549,"name":"Merle Kataoka‐Yahiro","orcid":"0000-0001-5431-5639","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":17,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T02:57:15.755535Z","pmid":"40989808","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}