# Career Enhancement Core (CE Core)

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2021 · $48,067

## Abstract

The Career Enhancement Core (CE Core) is tailored to develop research capacity in
AIDS malignancies by developing the careers of an integrated critical mass of junior
researchers in the context of shared resources and scientific networks provided by the
consortium institutions. There is a strong rationale for having a well-resourced Career
Enhancement Core. Junior Argentinian investigators have major institutional and funding
hurdles to overcome, which are complicated by the geographic isolation and the lack of
an integrated and interacting critical mass of researchers. CE Core is a career resource,
guidance and training hub of the U54 for the junior investigators that provides them with
the resources to ready themselves for a competitive independent career in AIDS-
malignancies including: critical technical and scientific training, training in essential skills
for scientific research, a local and international network of experts for collaboration and
networking, training in writing competitive grant applications and access to seed funding
to foster new projects. Furthermore, CE Core provides a mechanism to harness the
tremendous research strengths at the University of Miami (UM) CFAR and SCCC by
promoting new collaborations in new and emerging fields within and outside the network.
It is expected that the activities of this core will constitute a living model for excellent and
efficient training of junior and mid-career scientists and support the unique type of
multidisciplinary training needed for translational research. To ensure the success of
young investigators, CE Core has developed a three tiered specific Aims plan: Aim 1:
Mentoring Tier: Will support the development of interactive multidisciplinary projects as
mentored research opportunities for junior and mid-career scientists supported by
Shared cores and a mentoring network within the U54 consortium Aim 2: Training tier:
Will identify, coordinate and evaluate career development and training opportunities
within and outside the network and its institutions Aim 3: Pilot Program tier: Will create
a Pilot program to fully take advantage of the U54 training infrastructure by supporting
new ideas within the network, and to incorporate new scientists to the consortium.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10246321
- **Project number:** 5U54CA221208-05
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Omar Adrian Coso
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $48,067
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2017-09-20 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10246321

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10246321, Career Enhancement Core (CE Core) (5U54CA221208-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10246321. Licensed CC0.

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