Cooperative Agreement CPIMP211323

This $1,215,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under CFDA 93.847 Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program aims to provide recent underrepresented minority (URM) college graduates with an intensive two-year mentored research experience in diabetes, endocrinology, and metabolism (DEM). The award will support the "Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology and...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Environmental Health (CFDA 93.113) program provides $256,688 to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to fund the Leader Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program (LSURP). The goal of this program is to increase the diversity of applicants to graduate programs in environmental health and biomedical sciences by providing an immersive summer research experience for...

This $1,519,834 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Program) will establish the Institute for Health Equity Research Catalyst Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The center aims to build capacity and promote engagement, advancement, and retention of investigators in community-informed research focused on understanding and eliminating health disparities. Key...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $162,000.00 to the University of South Carolina to develop and implement an equity-driven research training program. The program aims to build capacity and expertise in integrating community engagement, health communication, and implementation science research to advance the science on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) disparities and outcomes, particularly among...

This $132,410 Project Grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) under the Cardiovascular Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.837) will provide protected time for Dr. Cheryl Anderson, a mid-career clinical investigator, to recruit and mentor a diverse group of trainees in clinical cardiovascular epidemiology and health equity research. The award will support two new areas of research: 1) integrating global policy and strategy into multilevel interventions to improve...

The federal Project Grant award P50MD019473 for $2,898,008.00, awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, aims to train and develop the next generation of health disparities investigators to perform innovative research in minority health and health disparities in partnership with the Buffalo, New York community. The grant will establish a Center of Excellence in...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $279,071 to Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS) to develop a predoctoral training program titled "Academic Learning Health System Preventions for Promoting Health Equity (ALHS-PRE)". The program aims to train the next generation of "clinician prevention scientists" with skills in health equity and...

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded Drexel University a $405,000 Project Grant under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866) to establish the DREXEL DREAM (Diversity, Research, Experiential Learning, Aging Science, and Mentorship) Scholars Program. This 5-year program aims to enhance the diversity of the biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research workforce in aging research. The program will recruit and train 60 undergraduate underrepresented minority (URM)...

The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) was awarded a $1,380,170 Project Grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research program (CFDA 93.307). The funding will support the establishment of the "UTEP Center for Investigator Training and Community Engagement in Transdisciplinary Minority Health Disparities Research" over a 5-year period from July 2024 to May 2029. The center will provide...

The University of Connecticut received a $100,000 project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields program (CFDA 10.318). The grant will support the development and implementation of an experiential learning and student recruitment, retention, and educational equity program focused on food, agriculture, natural resources, and human dimensions. Key...