# Community Engagement

> **NIH NIH P41** · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · 2021 · $217,332

## Abstract

Community Engagement Summary
The overall goals of Community Engagement (CE) are to deliver the technologies developed within the Resource
to the broader scientific community, and to enlist the community in defining the direction of development efforts.
Community engagement will include the dissemination of technologies and methodologies developed by the
resource to the bioNMR and biomedical communities. This includes delivery of the Virtual Machines for
download, access to the cloud computing resources, access to data models, software and source code
developed by the resource, as well documentation of the overall approach to building the resource technologies.
Community engagement will also include extensive, hands-on training for the biomolecular NMR user
community, through workshops (both internal and external), interactive tutorials, and access to support staff for
assistance. An overarching goal is to make the resource sustainable by the bioNMR community as a whole. To
accomplish this goal, the community will be engaged to become active participants in the governance and future
development of the NMRbox resource. Efforts for this level of engagement include online, community code
repositories (such as GitHub), establishing additional NMRbox instances across the globe, and plans to
commercialize the core kernel of the technology so it can be self-sustaining in the future.
One facet is the concrete delivery of the technologies and methodologies developed as part of the resource to
the bio-NMR and related communities. This is covered in the Technology Dissemination portion of CE. A second
facet is delivery of training to the user communities on how to use the Center’s resources for cutting edge
applications in biomedical research. This is covered in the Technology Training portion of CE. Enlistment
involves interactive collaboration and service activities with external researchers, using active participation of the
collaborator to impact and guide technology development. This encompasses projects smaller in scope than a
DBP, frequently served by deploying existing technology in novel ways but in some cases involving modest
adaptations of existing technology, to serve the needs of a specific investigator or application. These interactions
encompass projects formerly described as Collaboration and Service, which now permeate the TRDs as well as
CE. The fourth facet is the eventual migration of Resource technologies out of the Center and into the hands of
the bio-NMR community. This is covered in the Sustainability of Technologies portion of CE.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10147737
- **Project number:** 5P41GM111135-07
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT
- **Principal Investigator:** JEFFREY C HOCH
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $217,332
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2015-09-01 → 2025-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10147737

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10147737, Community Engagement (5P41GM111135-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10147737. Licensed CC0.

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