# Research Experience and Training Coordination Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · 2024 · $86,745

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The University of Kentucky Superfund Research Center (UK-SRC) e addresses a major environmental issue,
focusing on halogenated organics occurring at Superfund sites and that persist in the ground and water
sources in many other locations nationwide. The Research Experience and Training Coordination Core
(RETCC) aims to train students to investigate these issues via exposing trainees to interdisciplinary
approaches to training, providing opportunities to enhance their professional career development, and through
extensive outside laboratory experiences program that coordinates opportunities for participation in the
Community Engagement Core and the Administrative Core’s research translational function, and engaging
them with the Data Management and Analysis Core (DMAC). These diverse activities will give the trainees
broad exposure to environmental issues that affect their surroundings and equip them with a unique toolset to
make disruptive impacts to the field. Addressing environmental challenges requires an integrative approach
that leverages knowledge from disparate disciplines and perspectives. A combination of knowledge and
scientific methods from biomedical and environmental science and engineering-based disciplines are required,
while also considering the social impact of these issues on the surrounding communities. While the RETCC
promotes strong cross-disciplinary training, it also encourages the interdisciplinary thinking needed to develop
problem-solving skills and to become effective environmental communicators. The specific aims are: 1) to
introduce innovative training components designed to spur disruptive impacts and spark creative solutions to
complex environmental problems. The RETCC will fund trainee-developed pilot grants that necessitate cross-
disciplinary collaborations (e.g., data science/bioinformatics) among the projects and cores; 2) to integrate
career development training activities critical for academic and nonacademic interests developed through
interactions with the Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science and newly developed DMAC and
offer specific skills training (responsible conduct of research and grantsmanship) that prepare students for
success in academic, governmental and industrial research careers; and 3) to increase integration of the
trainees throughout all aspects of the Center to enhance overall productivity and to expand training
opportunities, from recruitment of the next generation of trainees to reporting the Center’s activities and trainee
outcomes to the SRP.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10767338
- **Project number:** 5P42ES007380-26
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
- **Principal Investigator:** James Zach Hilt
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $86,745
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-04-07 → 2027-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10767338

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10767338, Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (5P42ES007380-26). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10767338. Licensed CC0.

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