# Professional Development Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CTR · 2020 · $1,079,261

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY. The proposed Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) is
intended to promote multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional clinical and translational research projects,
focused on obesity and related conditions, and involving three Mississippi Institutions—the University of
Mississippi Medical Center, Tougaloo College, and the University of Southern Mississippi. This will be done in
collaboration with the IDeA-funded Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center and the Mayo Clinic
Center for Clinical and Translational Science. The CCTR's Professional Development Core will provide
extensive training and resources to foster the growth of Mississippi's next generation of obesity investigators
and to increase their number, diversity, and success. An Investigator Development Program will provide
structured mentorship, training, protected research time, and substantial research support to promising
obesity-focused early stage research faculty from all CCTR partner institutions. A Mentor Academy will be
provided to train funded, mid-career faculty members to be more effective research and career mentors. An
annual, two-week residential Community Engaged Research (CEnR) Institute will train selected junior faculty
members from all major Mississippi universities in the principles and practice of CEnR, and will offer
opportunities for them to compete for substantial funding for obesity-related pilot research projects. A multi-
institutional CEnR Working Group will hold bi-weekly teleconferences to present ongoing and completed CEnR
research, discuss available resources and research options, and seek opportunities for multi-institutional
obesity research projects and funding. Finally, a CCTR Seminar Series will offer bi-weekly seminars as a forum
for the presentation of high-impact obesity-related research and as an opportunity for junior investigators to
present their research and receive feedback. The programs described above will create a rich intellectual
environment, promote investigator interactions, and provide targeted research investments to increase
research collaboration among CCTR investigators from diverse backgrounds and academic disciplines, and to
foster the development of young, obesity-focused investigators with sustained, independent extramural
funding.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10009388
- **Project number:** 5U54GM115428-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** John E Hall
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,079,261
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-18 → 2021-08-19

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10009388

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10009388, Professional Development Core (5U54GM115428-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10009388. Licensed CC0.

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