# Immunobiology of Trauma

> **NIH NIH T32** · BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS · 2021 · $235,294

## Abstract

This T32 grant, GM86308, Immunobiology of Trauma will provide the appropriate training and
mentoring to create the next generation of physician scientists. Physician-scientists are a critical
element of the workforce necessary to improve the health of patients. Injuries and deaths from
traumatic injury represented the major cause of death and impaired function among people
under the age of 44. This morbidity and mortality creates a disproportionate drain on healthcare
resources due to the typical young age of the trauma patient. Additionally, new advances in
identifying the scope of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (football players’ brain injury) show
the need for increased investment in the basic science of trauma. Trauma disproportionately
affects underserved minority patients resulting in healthcare disparities further emphasizing the
role trauma plays in the health of our country. This revision of our competing renewal will build
on the success of the prior five years of funding. These successes include effective recruitment
of minority physicians into the program, 6 national awards to our T32 fellows, and 23 papers
either published or in press. Since the original renewal submission in 2015 an additional 11
papers have been published or are in press. There are important innovations in this competing
renewal which developing new evaluation tools developed by the recently funded BU Clinical
Science and Translational Institute and a newly NIH funded mentoring program for minority
students, among others. Some of the significant changes in the new application include a
restructuring of the executive committee to include members with active funding and labs,
development of clear training objectives, and expansion of the training faculty to include
investigators focusing on traumatic brain injury. This grant specifically requests funding for two
postdoctoral fellows for two years of training, a formula which has proven successful during the
prior funding. The Executive Committee works closely with the individual trainees to identify labs
whose research matches the interests of the trainees. All of our prior trainees have been drawn
from the residency programs at Boston Medical Center, the largest safety net hospital in New
England. There is exceptional institutional commitment manifest by the support for the
recruitment and retention of minority physicians and trainees with disabilities. It should be noted
that only one of our 10 trainees has completed their clinical training, and it is not possible to
document successful physician scientists completing our program. However, we have prepared
our trainees for academic careers by mentoring their science such that they have already been
successful as documented by the numerous national awards and published multiple
manuscripts in the peer reviewed literature.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10159264
- **Project number:** 5T32GM086308-10
- **Recipient organization:** BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
- **Principal Investigator:** Tony E Godfrey
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $235,294
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2010-07-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10159264

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10159264, Immunobiology of Trauma (5T32GM086308-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10159264. Licensed CC0.

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