# 1/2 Langston University- UNTHSC Partnership for Cancer Research and Education

> **NIH NIH P20** · LANGSTON UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $151,172

## Abstract

With the current US population continuing to grow at its current pace, nearly 50% of the US population in 2050
will be from medically underserved, vulnerable populations. Substantial evidence exists for the
underrepresentation of minorities (individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, people with
disabilities and from disadvantaged backgrounds) in all levels of the biomedical workforce (from the
undergraduate level to the professoriate). Racial/ethnic populations demonstrate increased incidence and/or
more aggressive disease for specific cancer types. Even when accounting for socioeconomic and access to
care factors, incidence and mortality differences persist between racial/ethnic populations for some cancer
types. Recent studies indicate that these unequal cancer burdens may be due to a complex biology that needs
to be investigated to increase our basic understanding of cancer health disparities. There is a lack of diversity
in the professional fields of healthcare and research, which strive to treat and eliminate the health disparities
that exist in cancer prevalent throughout the United States. This proposal will focus on promoting diversity in
individuals engaged cancer research and cancer disparities by developing a partnership between the Institute
for Cancer Research at University of North Texas Health Science Center (UNTHSC) and Langston University
(LU), the only historically black college in Oklahoma. The Objective of the proposed partnership is to promote
cancer-related research, cancer research experience and cancer education to undergraduate students and
junior faculty. Each of the activities will be jointly developed and implemented at LU and UNTHSC. We will
meet our objectives through three Specific Aims: Aim 1) Establish an Administrative Core (AC) that will be
responsible for the overall implementation, management, and evaluation of the success of the various
components of the partnership, Aim 2) Promote interdisciplinary and collaborative cancer research involving
faculty from UNTHSC and LU, and support two pilot research projects, and Aim 3) Develop a Cancer Research
Education Program (CREP) that provides students and junior faculty with cancer education, cancer research
experiences, experimental design, interprofessional education (IPE) and health disparities. Our expectation is
that by meeting our objectives, we will directly impact eventual achievement of our goal of establishing a long-
term partnership between LU and UNTHSC with an ultimate outcome of obtaining a diverse population
comprised of underrepresented populations in health disparity research related to cancer. Innovative
features of proposed partnership program are (1) focus on the development of research excellence and
professionalism in cancer and health disparities among the underrepresented and disadvantageous scholars;
(2) extended active coaching integrated with interprofessional training programs and academic training, and (3)
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10248466
- **Project number:** 5P20CA233391-04
- **Recipient organization:** LANGSTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Byron N Quinn
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $151,172
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-01 → 2024-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10248466

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10248466, 1/2 Langston University- UNTHSC Partnership for Cancer Research and Education (5P20CA233391-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10248466. Licensed CC0.

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