# Weill Cornell Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

> **NIH NIH R25** · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · 2020 · $517,954

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The Weill Cornell Graduate School (WCGS)—an educational and training partnership between Weill Cornell
Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—is a premier institution for PhD training in the
biomedical sciences. We look to leverage our training capacity ($275 million in research funding, 340 graduate
school faculty, and over 330 PhD students) to increase our rates of attracting, retaining, and developing
underrepresented minority (URM) doctoral students as leaders in the biomedical workforce. To accomplish this
goal, we propose a Weill Cornell IMSD program with the following aims: (1) Attract a pool of well-prepared
URM students to WCGS through partnerships with local and minority-serving institutions; (2) Build a robust,
self-renewing community of URM doctoral students and faculty through an early start program, multifaceted
mentorship, and social gatherings; and (3) Equip IMSD scholars with leadership training, professional skills
and networks to be leaders in a variety of biomedical and science-related careers. WCGS is primed for training
the next generation of URM biomedical scientists and we are confident that through the Weill Cornell IMSD, we
can develop a steady stream of well-trained PhD's that will both diversify and bring innovation to the
biomedical workforce.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9893726
- **Project number:** 5R25GM130494-02
- **Recipient organization:** WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV
- **Principal Investigator:** Ethel Cesarman
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $517,954
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-05-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9893726

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9893726, Weill Cornell Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (5R25GM130494-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9893726. Licensed CC0.

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