# NCCU-RCMI Partnership with a Practice-Based Clinical Research Network

> **NIH NIH U54** · NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY · 2021 · $500,244

## Abstract

The North Carolina Central University (NCCU) seeks competitive renewal of its RCMI - Center for Health Disparities Research (RCHDR) to continue enhancing NCCU's research ecosystem to develop investigators who are conducting impactful and cutting-edge research to address health disparities (HD). The Center is an interdisciplinary effort at NCCU housed at the Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute (BBRI), an institute opened in 1999 to pursue research afflicting populations in NC and to train the research workforce. In this renewal application, a concerted effort was made to establish a robust leadership team for the RCHDR through a group of senior- and mid-level experienced individuals. The Center will be comprised of four Cores: Administrative Core (AC); Research Capacity Core (RCC) (arranged into 5 sub-cores); Investigator Development Core (IDC) and Community Engagement Core (CEC) supporting one basic and one behavioral full biomedical research project plus pilot studies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10475461
- **Project number:** 3U54MD012392-05S2
- **Recipient organization:** NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** DEEPAK KUMAR
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $500,244
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2017-09-20 → 2022-09-19

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475461

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10475461, NCCU-RCMI Partnership with a Practice-Based Clinical Research Network (3U54MD012392-05S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10475461. Licensed CC0.

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