# Recruitment Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · 2022 · $169,058

## Abstract

ABSTRACT 
The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) vision as detailed in our current Strategic Plan is “leading the creation and 
advancement of health equity”. To accomplish this vision, and ultimately health equity, new structures are required. More 
rapid translation of research discoveries has been facilitated through a “team-based approach” to address the health of the 
people and communities. This means bringing biomedical, clinical, and behavioral investigators and others together in 
Multidisciplinary Translational Teams (MDTT’s) focused on a health disparity that bring to bear their combined expertise 
to address populations health translating discoveries into practical solutions. MSM RCMI Program has been successful at 
developing research infrastructure including researchers. This application has been developed to bring the expertise of the 
RCMI Program Cores, with Community and Clinical researchers and partners to build Multidisciplinary Translational 
Teams across the T spectrum targeted at more rapid translation of health disparities (e.g., Cancer, Stroke, Infectious 
Diseases, Cardiometabolic Disease, Reproductive Health) by expanding the baseline research infrastructure established by 
Morehouse School of Medicine. The primary objectives are to build those teams through research projects targeted at 
health disparities, and to develop a pipeline of developing research teams at MSM, and to increase the level of 
involvement of investigators in conducting MDTT research at MSM. The U54 Center for Translational Research in 
Health Disparities (CTRHD) consists of five Cores (Administrative, Research Infrastructure, Investigation Development, 
Community Engagement, and Recruitment); Three Research Projects; an evaluation component attached to the 
Administrative Core, and a Pilot Project Program attached to the Investigator Development Core. With these assets and 
activities, the CTRHD will accomplish its goal through the following Aims: 
AIM 1: Transform Our Institution. Build processes and structures facilitating development of competitive 
multidisciplinary translational teams (MDTTs), allowing MSM to emerge as the preeminent, research-intensive, minority 
serving academic health center in the nation. 
AIM 2: Transform the MSM Research Environment. Develop collaborations allowing MSM faculty to do cutting edge 
translational health disparities research. 
AIM 3: Transform the Community of Scientists. Promote and accelerate training and mentoring capabilities at MSM, 
leading to the next generation of leaders in health disparities multidisciplinary translational research. 
AIM 4. Transform Our Community. Facilitate integration of Basic Research with Community Engagement.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10402297
- **Project number:** 5U54MD007602-35
- **Recipient organization:** MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
- **Principal Investigator:** Alexander Quarshie
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $169,058
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-07-07 → 2023-09-19

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10402297

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10402297, Recruitment Core (5U54MD007602-35). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10402297. Licensed CC0.

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