# Research Education

> **NIH NIH U54** · HOWARD UNIVERSITY · 2024 · $200,054

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY- RESEARCH EDUCATION CORE
The Research Education Core of the Howard-Hopkins Comprehensive Alliance in cancer Research, Education,
and Equity (H2CAREE) aims to strengthen the cancer research education program at Howard University (HU),
and diversify the cancer research workforce. Levergaing the longstanding collaboration between the two
institutions, H2CAREE plans to develope joint programs between HU and Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The
core’s goals include: 1. Establishing a joint Ph.D. program in Medical Physics, 2. Creating a “School2Lab”
initiative for underrepresented STEMM scholars, and 3. Offering a twelve-week course on artificial intelligence
and machine learning in cancer research. The goals of the these effort are to address racial disparities in cancer
and the underrepresentation of African Americans in the cancer research and clinical workforce.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 11011787
- **Project number:** 1U54CA295337-01
- **Recipient organization:** HOWARD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Rao Khan
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $200,054
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2024-09-20 → 2029-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/11011787

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 11011787, Research Education (1U54CA295337-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/11011787. Licensed CC0.

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