# Research Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · 2024 · $324,667

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS (BBC) RESEARCH CORE
The Center for the Promotion of Cancer Health Equity (CePCHE) is to provide centralized management, support,
specialized technical services, and evaluation for advancing investigators, and creating a sustained integrated
basic research development and support center. To accomplish this aim, the CePCHE will establish a much-
needed Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Core (BBC) to strengthen and improve the University of Puerto
Rico’s (UPR) limited infrastructure in cancer research. The goal of the BBC is to serve as an expert hub to
address bioinformatics and biostatistics for the CePCHE’s Research Projects Leaders (RPLs) as well as pipeline
and early-stage investigators invested in cancer research. To accomplish this goal, the BBC has established the
following specific aims: (1) To
implementation, data analysis,
provide biostatistical assistance and support for study design methodology,
and interpretation of biomedical data; (2) Provide bioinformatics support in
predictive analytics (artificial intelligence and machine learning), and computational support (software tools and
application programming interfaces or APIs); (3) Establish a computational infrastructure suitable for big-data
analyses, and data repository for data collection, curation, annotation, management, and storage of primary and
secondary databases; and (4) Establish and strengthen working relationships and a training portfolio of the BBC
with other IDeA institutions. Additionally, the BBC will support and train RPLs and other promising junior
investigators addressing the CePCHE’s theme in data processing, management, and analysis. The BBC will
play a leading role in the creation, collection, and maintenance of a shared Data Repository to expand the
immediate access of UPR faculty to these multiple data sets and resources. It is expected that the BBC will
provide a solid infrastructure for CePCHE’s RPLs to expedite their research, publish results in a timely manner
in high impact peer-reviewed journals, and prepare and submit competitive R-type proposals within three years
of initiation of the CePCHE.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10931323
- **Project number:** 5P20GM148324-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Jose Lugo-Martinez
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $324,667
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-19 → 2028-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10931323

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10931323, Research Core (5P20GM148324-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10931323. Licensed CC0.

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