# SPAD at Alaska Pacific University

> **NIH NIH UC2** · ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $280,000

## Abstract

1 SPAD for Alaska Pacific University
 2 PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
 3
 4 Under the global goal of providing the foundation for research administration support to
 5 ensure that Alaska Native/American Indian professional in biomedical fields succeed in their
 6 sponsored projects funding pursuits, Alaska Pacific University seeks to increase productivity of
 7 sponsored programs activities; enhance biomedical research and training at APU; and enhance
 8 faculty and student participation in biomedical research and research training programs,
 9 especially among Indigenous students. As an Alaska Native-Serving institution with a unique
10 affiliation with the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, the largest, most comprehensive
11 Tribal health organization in the United States, APU has very recently built an office of
12 sponsored programs. With emerging undergraduate research programs in biomedical sciences,
13 the institution is ideally positioned to leverage NIH SPAD support to further develop OSP into an
14 effective, efficient, and sustainable unit of support to the university research community.
15 Specific Aims/Objectives include: 1) increase # of proposal application submission and #
16 of awards over AY20 baseline; 2) enhance research community understanding of regulatory
17 compliance areas through training, education and development; and 3) enhance research
18 community understanding of/response to the Indigenous communities APU serves, conduct
19 training, education and development on the lifecycle of sponsored projects.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10204521
- **Project number:** 1UC2GM141587-01
- **Recipient organization:** ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Laurie Evans-Dinneen
- **Activity code:** UC2 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $280,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-05-24 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10204521

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10204521, SPAD at Alaska Pacific University (1UC2GM141587-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10204521. Licensed CC0.

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