# Enrichment Program

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $38,816

## Abstract

The overall goal of the Enrichment Program is to enhance the University of Michigan Center for
Gastrointestinal Research (UMCGR) environment by promoting education and fostering research synergy
through communication amongst its members. The Enrichment Program also helps provide the UMCGR with
an institutional and national identity. The UMCGR educational programs have been a driving force for
strengthening the Center research environment since they bring new information and pioneering scientific
approaches to UMCGR investigators and provide an outlet for communication of the Center with the greater
University of Michigan scientific community. This vocation of the Center is pivotal in developing new research
directions by providing extramural speakers and seminars on new technological advances and opportunities.
The programs enhance our scientific environment by providing constructive feedback to UMCGR members,
and motivate (and support) young investigators to pursue research in digestive, liver and pancreatic diseases.
Enrichment activities also provide robust opportunities for UMCGR members to meet and participate in
educational activities such as lectures, retreats, and workshops. Trainees of UMCGR members meet regularly
at two weekly conferences (GI Basic and Translational Research Conference and Joint Gut Microbiome
conference) attended by UMCGR members and investigators from other departments, discussing their work
and sharing latest high impact journal articles, as well as didactic academic skills sessions. UMCGR members
and their trainees also benefit from extramural networking opportunities through our bimonthly visiting
professor series and by receiving valuable input from external senior scientists. In addition, a highly successful
annual retreat for Center Investigators, gastrointestinal fellows, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is
sponsored by the UMCGR Enrichment Program. This 2 day event begins on the first day with an academic
workshop and an educational talk given by our Yamada Lectureship speaker, and the second day mini theme
symposium features invited scholar talks, and the keynote Yamada Lectureship presentation. We also have
poster sessions highlighting research performed by Center investigators and Pilot Feasibility Studies
awardees. Finally, the Enrichment Program has been instrumental in helping to launch the Midwest DDRC
Alliance by hosting the first two years of an academic workshop and scientific meeting of faculty and
pilot/feasibility recipients of members (University of Michigan, University of Chicago, Mayo, University of
Cincinnati, and Washington University) in Ann Arbor in January of 2013 and 2014.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10147060
- **Project number:** 5P30DK034933-35
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** JOHN Y KAO
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $38,816
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1996-12-01 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10147060

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10147060, Enrichment Program (5P30DK034933-35). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10147060. Licensed CC0.

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