# Professional Development Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR · 2021 · $1,101,125

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORE
 In the state of Louisiana, health disparities such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes/obesity, and
cancer disproportionately affect Louisiana citizens. Unfortunately, there are not adequate numbers of
investigators proficient in Clinical and Translational Research to address and diminish this health disparity. The
overall objective of the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Professional Development Key
Component Activity (PD-KCA) is to educate and train academic faculty and trainees (Scholars) state-wide to
pursue clinical/translational research focused on improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities in
Louisiana. The PD-KCA provides a degree-granting training program, the Masters in Clinical Research
(MSCR), mentorship, and a variety of educational research resources to aid Scholars from different health
professionals throughout Louisiana. The PD-KCA research plans are based on the following specific aims: (1)
develop programs that support clinical and translational research training, career development, and mentoring
that specifically targets multiple health care disciplines and (2) develop, provide and coordinate accessible
resources to aid faculty and trainees in developing, initiating, executing, analyzing, and disseminating
clinical/translational research. The PD-KCA will implement the research plan by creating an academic “home”
that provides clinical and translational research training tailored to Scholars with a wider range of research
experience (e.g. students to postdoctoral fellows) and from different professional disciplines (e.g. medicine,
psychology, dentistry, nursing, etc.). This cross-institutional structured approach has been developed to
include collaborating LA CaTS institutions throughout the state of Louisiana. The PD-KCA plans to provide
training and research resources, including courses in the MSCR curriculum on site and by Distance Learning,
access to a centralized clinical trial enrollment center, the new Risk Assessment Clinic in the Louisiana Cancer
Research Center, the state-wide virtual biorepository resource, and “team science” projects focused on health
disparities diseases outcomes to promote research team collaborations. Distance Learning is key in providing
Scholars access to all PD-KCA resources; therefore, a centralized compendium of MSCR courses and
research tool kits will be provided via an asynchronous system. Overall, the PD-KCA intends to recruit,
educate, and train Scholars from various health care disciplines in clinical and translational research focused
on health disparities diseases in order to improve health outcomes that now negatively affect the citizens of
Louisiana.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10201619
- **Project number:** 5U54GM104940-06
- **Recipient organization:** LSU PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CTR
- **Principal Investigator:** ROY S WEINER
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $1,101,125
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-08-15 → 2022-08-04

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10201619

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10201619, Professional Development Core (5U54GM104940-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10201619. Licensed CC0.

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