{"id":786,"date":"2009-06-03T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/urology\/nielsen-selected-for-kl2-award\/"},"modified":"2022-03-14T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T21:53:08","slug":"nielsen-selected-for-kl2-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/nielsen-selected-for-kl2-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nielsen Selected for KL2 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 3rd, 2009 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/urology\/directory\/matthew-nielsen-md-ms\/\">Dr. Matt Nielsen<\/a>, Assistant Professor of Surgery\/Urology, has been selected as a Clinical Research Scholar on the UNC Clinical Translation Science Award &#8211; K12 Scholars Program (KL2).<\/p>\n<p>The goals of this national consortium are to transform how clinical and translation research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients.\u00a0 Dr. Nielsen will be mentored by Michael P. 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