# Community Engagement

> **NIH NIH P41** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $153,529

## Abstract

Community Engagement
Abstract
The goal of community engagement within the National Resource for Translational and Developmental
Proteomics (NRTDP) is to promulgate the research developed within the Resource and enable scientists across
the nation to perform top-down proteomics (TDP) in a robust and reproducible way. We understand that there
are still impediments to the wide-scale adoption of top-down, proteoform-resolved measurements. Through
Community Engagement, coupled with TR&D 5, 6 and 7, presented in this renewal, we aim to break down
those barriers where they exist and develop and export the methods and techniques that will bring wide-spread
adoption of TDP.
In the initial application, Community Engagement was split into three separate sections: Collaboration
and Service (CS), Training, and Dissemination. We feel that these distinctions are still valuable and for this
renewal, we retain each of these sections as specific aims within the Community Engagement section.
Specific Aim 1 (Collaboration and Service). Here we provide NRTDP users direct access to TDP, performed
by our scientists within the NRTDP. We do so in two subaims, developing robust service lines focused on
targeted top-down proteomics and quantitative label-free top-down proteomics (TDQ).
Specific Aim 2 (Training). In this aim, we provide direct, hands-on education in TDP. We have proposed two
methodologies: a quarterly, top-down proteomics course and our NRTDP Scholar Exchange Program.
Specific Aim 3 (Dissemination). Finally, we aim to provide enduring resources for top-down proteomics through
the NRTDP by providing tools that can be easily accessed and reused for years to come. We will do so through
software that we develop as well as publishing robust, standardized methods and protocols.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9854769
- **Project number:** 2P41GM108569-06
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** NEIL L KELLEHER
- **Activity code:** P41 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $153,529
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9854769

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9854769, Community Engagement (2P41GM108569-06). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-21 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9854769. Licensed CC0.

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