# Carver College of Medicine Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP)

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2021 · $41,040

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
Brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, glioma, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis devastate the lives of millions of patients and their families. Despite decades of research
costing billions of dollars, these and other brain diseases sorely lack diagnostic tools, effective disease-
modifying therapies, adequate symptomatic managements, or even well-defined mechanistic causes.
These failures stand out particularly in light of incredible advances in basic scientific knowledge. Thus
there is a critical need for clinicians to be involved in basic research on human brain disease since they
are well suited to identify new treatments. The University of Iowa Clinical Neuroscientist Training
Program is designed as a more efficient pathway to train outstanding neurology and neurosurgery
residents in basic research, with the goal of increasing the percentage of trainees who continue in a
long career as productive clinician-scientists.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10216359
- **Project number:** 5R25NS079173-10
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** GEORGE B RICHERSON
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $41,040
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2012-06-15 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10216359

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10216359, Carver College of Medicine Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP) (5R25NS079173-10). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10216359. Licensed CC0.

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