# Research Experience and Training Coordination Core

> **NIH NIH P42** · TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $78,390

## Abstract

Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (RETCC) ABSTRACT
The Texas A&M University Superfund Research Center aims to characterize and manage both existing and
environmental emergency-created hazardous waste sites through the development of tools that can be used by
first responders, affected communities, and government bodies involved in site management and cleanup. The
complexities of hazardous chemical exposures that occur as a result of environmental emergencies, their
potential adverse health effects, and the need to rapidly and comprehensively evaluate and mitigate the potential
hazards of exposures to complex mixtures call for a highly interdisciplinary and cohesive research program. The
Center brings together a team of scientists from biomedical, engineering, data science, and social disciplines to
design comprehensive solutions for complex exposure- and health hazard-related risk assessment and hazard
reduction challenges. Given the diversity of the disciplines involved, the excellence of the investigators, and the
tight integration of the fundamental and applied research, the Center will form an outstanding training
environment for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and will create ample opportunities for integration
and professional development of the next generation of researchers and practitioners. The Research and
Experience Training Coordination Core (RETCC) will serve as a central hub for science and practice learning in
the Center by focusing on the following objectives: (1) Promote interdisciplinary learning via collaborative projects
across multiple Projects/Cores; (2) Augment trainees’ existing graduate and postdoctoral programs with targeted
skill-building workshops; (3) Provide opportunities for interactions with diverse audiences (scientific and
layperson) in support of the research translation functions of the Community Engagement and Administrative
and Research Translation Cores; and (4) Track and evaluate trainee development and success. The Core will
work closely with existing training programs at participating institutions and will be tightly integrated with the
Interdisciplinary Faculty of Toxicology and T32 program, “Regulatory Science in Environmental Health and
Toxicology,” at Texas A&M University. The Core will coordinate research and learning of postdoctoral fellows
and doctoral students in all Projects and Cores. Distinctive features of the Core are topic-specific inter-
disciplinary boot camps and a trainee exchange program across Center components or with outside stakeholders
involved in emergency response to environmental disasters, modelled after the KC Donnelly Externship Award.
These activities receive support from Texas A&M administration. It is expected that Center trainees will continue
to be highly successful in academia, industry, governmental agencies and other professional settings and will
improve public health protection through innovative and rigorous research and practice in sup...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10874509
- **Project number:** 5P42ES027704-08
- **Recipient organization:** TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Candice L. Brinkmeyer-Langford
- **Activity code:** P42 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $78,390
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2022-09-20 → 2027-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10874509

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10874509, Research Experience and Training Coordination Core (5P42ES027704-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10874509. Licensed CC0.

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