# Research Education Component

> **NIH NIH P30** · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · 2021 · $318,434

## Abstract

Mount Sinai ADRC (Sano): Research Education Component (REC) – Research Summary
The Research Education Component (REC) of the Alzheimer's Research Center (ARC) will provide critically
needed training for junior faculty, senior postdoctoral fellows, and clinical research track residents and
fellows, to conduct research on Alzheimer's disease-related disorders (ADRD). REC will support mentored
research experiences for junior investigators during two vulnerable periods of their career development, early
in their careers as they approach the end of residency or fellowship training, when they are too junior to
obtain career development awards, or later when they have completed a career development award (e.g. K
award), have a junior faculty position, but have yet to obtain RO1 or equivalent grant funding. Through the
participation of distinguished senior faculty mentors in an intellectually and technologically rich academic
environment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS), REC will also provide a mechanism
to support gifted and highly motivated junior investigators who are new to AD research. Complementing
state-of-the-art research training with teams of multidisciplinary REC mentors, REC scholars will receive an
individually tailored didactic curriculum and exposure to multiple career-building activities, including a work-
in-progress seminar series, science communication course, translational neuroscience and AD seminar
series, grant and publication writing workshops and course, an academic survival and leadership seminar
series, optional advanced coursework in neuroscience, genetics/genomics, and quantitative analyses, and
a variety of additional resources available at ISMMS. REC scholars, moreover, will take advantage of well-
designed, accessible ARC cores which will assist in their training allowing timely completion of their research
program milestones and assisting scholars to meet goals set in their individual development plans (IDPs).
REC objectives include: (1) To support trainees to conduct research to test questions and mechanisms
important to the health of ADRD patients; (2) To provide advanced training in approach and
methodologies needed to conduct high quality, ethical, and multidisciplinary research on ADRD disorders;
(3) To provide multidisciplinary mentorship, with at least two interdisciplinary mentors, and an individually
tailored career development plan; (4) To provide multiple forums that will encourage development of
trainee presentation skills. (5) To prepare and assist trainees to submit and obtain external grant funding
that is appropriate for their career stage (e.g. K award for postdocs and clinical fellows, or R21/RO1 for junior
faculty), to sustain long-term academic careers as independent investigators and future leaders in the
basic, translational, and clinical research of ADRDs. REC leadership, mentoring teams, and of course
REC scholars themselves, will work together to closely assess short-term tra...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10149909
- **Project number:** 5P30AG066514-02
- **Recipient organization:** ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
- **Principal Investigator:** NIKOLAOS K ROBAKIS
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $318,434
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-05-01 → 2025-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10149909

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10149909, Research Education Component (5P30AG066514-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10149909. Licensed CC0.

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