# Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers

> **NIH NIH R25** · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $102,134

## Abstract

This application seeks to establish an R25 Research Education Program, “Enhancing
Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers,” with the long-term objective of helping to
diversify the pool of ELSI researchers and thus enrich ELSI scholarship. Our program
would draw on regional diversity to build a pipeline that identifies and recruits promising
undergraduates from populations historically underrepresented in ELSI and bioethics.
Our specific aims are: 1) To recruit undergraduate students from diverse,
underrepresented groups and backgrounds to explore and conduct research in
genomics and society studies (methods, skills, history, and content); 2) To mentor and
support small cohorts of interdisciplinary trainees, exposing them to career options in
genomics and society studies and sparking their interest in pursuing such a career, and
integrating them into local, regional, and national bioethics networks; and, 3) To nurture
and strengthen relationships between and among bioethics scholars and units at
universities in the Baltimore-DC area, creating and sustaining a regional pipeline for the
entry of students from diverse, underrepresented groups and backgrounds into
genomics and society studies, and the institutional structures and networks to support
them over time.
Through the R25, our program faculty and staff will create a 15-month training and
mentorship experience, the entry point of which will be a new Genomics and Society
division of the Johns Hopkins Diversity Summer Internship Program (SIP), offering an
intensive 10-week ELSI research experience. The BI will be able to offer multiple
research experiences through individual faculty research and through our CEER,
Bridging Infectious Disease, Genomics & Society (BRIDGES). Following the on-campus
summer program, students will continue their connection to the Hopkins Program
throughout the academic year, co-lead the planning of an activity (e.g., seminar, panel,
outreach event) related to their interests in Genomics and Society at their home
institution, and return to Hopkins and the Berman Institute for one week the following
summer for additional training and connection with the next cohort of trainees. The R25
will fund five trainees per year for five years. An additional trainee each year will be
funded by University of Maryland Baltimore County, one of our regional partners.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10440393
- **Project number:** 5R25HG010026-05
- **Recipient organization:** JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** DEBRA JH MATHEWS
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $102,134
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-18 → 2025-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10440393

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10440393, Enhancing Diversity among Future ELSI Researchers (5R25HG010026-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10440393. Licensed CC0.

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