# Xavier RCMI Renewal Application-Overall

> **NIH NIH U54** · XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · 2021 · $369,987

## Abstract

Summary
To sustain Xavier’s overall research momentum, enhance research capacity, and advance to the next level of
excellence in biomedical research on minority health and health disparities, the RCMI Cancer Research Center
will implement program activities to support early stage, underrepresented investigators, maintain core facilities
to support Xavier researchers at all levels of career development, and to promote and sustain long-lasting,
bidirectional partnerships between Xavier and local communities to address cancer health disparities. The
proposed RCMI Center will consist of three major research projects in two areas: basic biomedical research
and behavioral research, and 4 Cores: the Administrative Core, the Investigator Development Core, the
Research Infrastructure Core, and the Community Engagement Core. These programs will be implemented to
achieve the following specific aims: Aim 1. Enhance Xavier’s research capacity for basic biomedical and
behavioral research. The RCMI program will maintain, strengthen and optimize core services in support of
Xavier investigators. Core facilities will be restructured, consolidated, and operations will be streamlined to
maximize productivity and efficiency of Xavier’s ongoing research projects. Aim 2. Enable Xavier investigators
to become more competitive in obtaining external funding. This will be achieved by 1) supporting two research
projects in the basic biomedical area and one research project in the behavioral research area to enable these
project PIs to become competitive in R01 applications; 2) providing critical research resources such as shared
state-of-the-art instrumentation required in a competitive research project through the Research Infrastructure
Core; 3) providing, through the Investigator Development Core, pilot funding to obtain necessary preliminary
data for development of fundable research proposals; and 4) providing grantsmanship training through grant
writing workshops and professional review services. Aim 3. Promote career enhancement of Xavier’s new and
early stage investigators through a pilot project fund and by initiating a research/grantsmanship “pipeline”
supporting new faculty for five years to obtain extramural funding. Aim 4. Enhance the quality of all scientific
inquiry and promote research on minority health and health disparities by semi-annual symposiums and
workshops on the quality of minority health and health disparities research each year to offer training in good
scientific practices, appropriate statistical usage, and responsible laboratory practices for researchers at all
levels. Working through the Community Engagement Core and the Investigator Development Core, the RCMI
program will foster close interactions and collaborations among basic and behavior researchers, clinicians, and
community stakeholders. Aim 5. Establish sustainable relationships with community-based organizations that
will partner with Xavier researchers. A Community Engagement Core wi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10374685
- **Project number:** 3U54MD007595-13S2
- **Recipient organization:** XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
- **Principal Investigator:** Gene D'Amour
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $369,987
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2009-09-24 → 2023-12-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10374685

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10374685, Xavier RCMI Renewal Application-Overall (3U54MD007595-13S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10374685. Licensed CC0.

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