{"id":6435,"date":"2025-06-06T19:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2025-06-06T19:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T19:36:02","slug":"dr-olivia-lara-awarded-k12-career-development-award-through-nc-tracs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2025\/06\/06\/dr-olivia-lara-awarded-k12-career-development-award-through-nc-tracs\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Olivia Lara Awarded K12 Career Development Award through NC TraCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/people\/olivia-lara\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2145 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Lara portrait\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-600x911.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1.jpg 1686w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>Olivia Lara, MD, MS<\/a>, from the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been awarded a K12 Career Development Award through the <a href=\"https:\/\/tracs.unc.edu\/index.php\/services\/education\/ctsa-k12\/scholars\">NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute<\/a>. She is one of nine investigators selected as 2025 TraCS Scholars.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Lara\u2019s project, <em>\u201cThe Impact of the Microbiome and Immunotherapy on the Treatment and Progression of Endometrial Cancer,\u201d<\/em> is supported by the program and guided by her primary mentor, Victoria Bae-Jump, MD, PhD.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The TraCS K12 program provides salary and research support for early stage researchers who are seeking to launch independently-funded careers in clinical\/translational research. Scholars receive structured training to develop leadership and mentoring skills, and to conduct research focused on addressing challenges and inefficiencies in clinical and translational science.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Lara, MD, MS, from the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, has been awarded a K12 Career Development Award through the NC Translational and Clinical Sciences (NC TraCS) Institute. She is one of nine investigators selected as 2025 TraCS Scholars. Dr. Lara\u2019s project, \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/2025\/06\/06\/dr-olivia-lara-awarded-k12-career-development-award-through-nc-tracs\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dr. Olivia Lara Awarded K12 Career Development Award through NC TraCS\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116513,"featured_media":2145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[153,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gynecology-oncology","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-198x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-768x1166.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-674x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/Olivia-Lara-Headshot-scaled-1-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Dr. Lara portrait","category_details":[{"name":"Gynecology Oncology","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/gynecology-oncology\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}