# Career Enhancement Core - CEC

> **NIH NIH U54** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $129,370

## Abstract

SEX AND AGE DIFFERENCES IN IMMUNITY TO INFLUENZA (SADII) CAREER ENHANCEMENT CORE
SUMMARY
The SADII Career Enhancement Core (CEC) will be led by to Dr. Wendy Bennett in collaboration with the
Johns Hopkins Center for Women’s Health, Sex, and Gender Research. The SADII CEC will provide integrated
career enhancement opportunities to clinical, translational, and basic scientists studying sex differences within
the Johns Hopkins University community. This goal will be met through the following specific aims: Aim 1 will
be to provide a broad, interdisciplinary group of established investigators and junior faculty with collaboration,
networking, dissemination, and mentoring opportunities to equip them with new approaches, skills, and
interdisciplinary perspectives in sex and gender differences research; Aim 2 will be to provide pilot grant
funding for early stage investigators (i.e., investigators at the level of Assistant Professor or below, with
emphasis on diversity of candidates) interested in incorporating sex differences into their clinical, translational,
or basic science research in the broad area of immunology (e.g., asthma and allergy, autoimmunity, cancer,
infectious diseases, inflammation, microbiome, vaccines); Aim 3 will be to integrate educational opportunities
focused on teaching skills and methods for incorporating sex as a biological variable and gender
considerations when planning, analyzing, and reporting data, and research dissemination activities into a broad
range of existing training programs (e.g. KL2 and BIRCWH programs); and Aim 4 will be to evaluate the
effectiveness of the SADII CEC in expanding learning opportunities, dissemination of sex and gender research,
mentorship, and funded research. Johns Hopkins has a strong, research-intensive environment, and has
demonstrated commitment to the BIRCWH and other women’s health and sex/gender research and training
opportunities. We anticipate that the SADII CEC will catalyze the expansion of research in the area of
sex/gender differences in biomedical science, and support the growth of diverse investigators and leaders
committed to the consideration of sex as a biologic variable in the design and conduct of their ongoing and
future studies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10213170
- **Project number:** 5U54AG062333-04
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Wendy Lynet Bennett
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $129,370
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10213170

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10213170, Career Enhancement Core - CEC (5U54AG062333-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10213170. Licensed CC0.

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