# Education - Outreach Core

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · 2024 · $71,742

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT
The goal of the Education and Community Outreach Core (Core B) is to provide and publicize structured and
transformational educational outreach and mentoring research programs in reproductive sciences, focused on
underrepresented and socio-demographically disadvantaged students and engage and provide resources for
the San Francisco Bay Area community about NCTRI research and disorders that can compromise fertility
studied herein. Core B will leverage long-standing and newly formalized UCSF partnerships with programs
across the pipeline of high school, undergraduate and graduate student, and post-baccalaureate trainees as
well as community networks in which our faculty are actively engaged. These include the: Science and
Educational Partnership (SEP; high school interns), Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
(OGYN/RS) Undergraduate Research Internship (URI); San Francisco State University (SFSU) CIRM Bridges
Program (undergraduate interns) and the SFSU-UCSF NIH BUILD Program (Building Infrastructure Leading
to Diversity; undergraduate interns), and new programs: Artificial Intelligence for all (AI4All) for high school
girls, Summer Program to Accelerate Regenerative Medicine Knowledge (SPARK) program for high school
students, and PROPEL (Post-baccalaureate Research Opportunity to Promote Equity in Learning) for post-
baccalaureate scholars to be trained in our NCTRI labs. These pipeline programs are key to engage future
researchers from all backgrounds for success in the reproductive sciences. Through these programs, all NCTRI
faculty and lab members will participate in providing innovative research and didactic experiences to these
students. To promote community involvement in NCTRI activities and reproductive science literacy in the Bay
Area, we will disseminate our research opportunities via social media and will highlight student research and
other UCSF NCTRI Center research in activities hosted by the Bay Area Science Festival (>100,000 attendees
annually), at NCTRI and professional society meetings, and at the annual UCSF CRS Research Retreat. The
Core B website will host trainee research webinars and webinars focused on the clinical inflammatory disorders
affecting fertility and pregnancy and our NCTRI research on these disorders. We will assemble a Community
Stakeholders’ Advisory Board and will participate in the UCSF Mini-Medical School series for community and
patient education and engagement. Coordinating these teaching and community outreach programs, under the
aegis of Core B, will provide a rich cross-generational and cross-educational mentoring and teaching
experience, will highlight our passion for basic and translational reproduction and infertility research, and will
engage the Bay Area research and lay communities in NCTRI Center activities.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10889189
- **Project number:** 5P50HD112034-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO
- **Principal Investigator:** LINDA C GIUDICE
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $71,742
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-08-01 → 2028-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10889189

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10889189, Education - Outreach Core (5P50HD112034-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10889189. Licensed CC0.

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