# RCMI Center for Cancer and Health Disparities Research

> **NIH NIH U54** · XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA · 2024 · $4,798,100

## Abstract

SUMMARY – OVERALL
To sustain Xavier’s overall research momentum and advance to the next level of excellence in cancer and health
disparities research, the RCMI Cancer and Health Disparities Research Center will implement program activities
to support early stage, underrepresented investigators, enhance core facilities to support Xavier researchers,
and promote long-lasting, bidirectional partnerships between Xavier and local communities to address health
disparity issues. The RCMI Center will consist of three research projects in basic biomedical, behavioral, and
clinical research and four Cores: The Administrative Core, the Investigator Development Core, the Research
Capacity Core, and the Community Engagement Core. These programs will be implemented to achieve the
following specific aims: Aim 1. Enhance Xavier’s research capacity for basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical
research. The RCMI program will maintain, strengthen and optimize core services in support of Xavier
investigators. Core facilities will be restructured, consolidated, and operations will be streamlined to maximize
productivity and efficiency of Xavier’s ongoing research projects. Aim 2. Enable Xavier investigators to become
more competitive in obtaining external funding. This will be achieved by a) supporting three research projects in
three areas encompassing basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research to enable these project PIs to
become competitive in R01 applications; b) providing critical research resources for research projects through
the Research Capacity Core; c) providing, through the Investigator Development Core, pilot funding to obtain
necessary preliminary data and/or data analyses for the development of fundable research proposals; and d)
providing grantsmanship training through grant writing workshops and professional review services. Aim 3.
Promote career enhancement of Xavier’s early-stage investigators through a Research Development Network
supporting new faculty for five years to obtain extramural funding. Aim 4. Enhance the quality and dissemination
of research on minority health and health disparities. We will organize semi-annual symposiums and workshops
on the quality of health disparities research to offer training in good scientific practices, appropriate statistical
usage, and responsible laboratory practices for researchers at all levels. Aim 5. Expand sustainable relationships
with community-based organizations that will partner with Xavier researchers. A Community Engagement Core
will be enhanced to a) promote and sustain community-academic partnerships through bidirectional knowledge
sharing on intervention strategies and scientific discovery in health disparities; b) facilitate greater community
involvement in setting research priorities and creating more opportunities for academic-practitioner-community
research partnerships; c) build capacity (knowledge and skills) among research investigators, community
members, health systems, ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10932344
- **Project number:** 5U54MD007595-17
- **Recipient organization:** XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
- **Principal Investigator:** Guangdi Wang
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $4,798,100
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2009-09-24 → 2028-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10932344

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10932344, RCMI Center for Cancer and Health Disparities Research (5U54MD007595-17). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10932344. Licensed CC0.

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