# Investigator Development Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2020 · $233,848

## Abstract

Abstract: Investigator Development Core
The Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Health Disparities is devoted to improving the health and
quality of life of
AI/AN people and
offers a supportive
environment for health disparities research that aligns with
the mandates of the this RFA. Responding to
the recalcitrant disparities documented by Healthy People 2020,
the Pilot Projects funded by this Investigator Development Core (IDC) will address underserved populations,
emphasizing our theme of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRDs) within a Precision Medicine (PM)
framework. The IDC is designed to identify and allocate substantial funding to support Pilot Projects that can
affect sustained, widespread reductions in ADRD health disparities of all kinds by a) conducting analyses using
existing datasets that include adequate numbers of minority or underserved individuals; 2) rigorously testing
practices, treatments, educational efforts, and policies; and c) conducting qualtitative work that illuminates
quantitative or administrative findings or comprises formative science. Led by Drs. Spero Manson and William
Henderson, a well regarded, highly experienced biostatistician, we will facilitate the career success of Pilot
Project investigators by offering grant-writing workshops that provide guidance from highly successful senior
scientists and sophisticated design, methodologic, analytic, and research review services. Together, these
integrated activities will helppostdoctoral/post-residency trainees, junior faculty, and early stage investigators
(collectively called junior investigators) obtain external funding, such as mentored K Awards, R01 series grants,
and other mechanisms appropriate to their career level. This Core will offer numerous possibilities for ADRD and
PM research, including studies of the etiology, biology, genetics, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of ADRDs
and their clinical, psychosocial, and economic consequences. We will leverage the successful experience of our
other, existing pilot fund and research career development programs to rapidly develop application procedures
and selection criteria. Notably, we will recruit a broad range of investigators from UCD/AMC w can begin or
augment their research with IDC support. Given serious concerns about the dearth of minority Principal
Investigators (PIs), we will
ho
actively solicit applications from AI/AN and other underrepresented minority (URM)
junior investigators, using personal contact, word of mouth, minority-serving institutional units, email, and other
effective means to achieve this goal.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9926732
- **Project number:** 5U54MD000507-18
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** SPERO MARTIN MANSON
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $233,848
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9926732

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9926732, Investigator Development Core (5U54MD000507-18). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-10 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9926732. Licensed CC0.

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