# Career Enhancement Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · 2020 · $193,091

## Abstract

CAREER ENHANCEMENT CORE: SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Virginia M. Miller, Ph.D. 
The aims for the Career Enhancement Core (CEC) in this renewal application for the Mayo Clinic Specialized 
Center of Research of Excellence (SCORE) on Sex Differences are a natural extension of activities begun 
under the previous funding cycle. The three aims of the CEC in this renewal application focus on the long-term 
sustainability of programs in women's health and sex-differences research: 1) to develop the next generation of 
clinical and basic researchers, 2) to provide leadership and development of best practices and policies in 
biomedical research aimed toward understanding diverse health outcomes, and 3) to serve as a vital hub for 
the education and dissemination of innovative sex-based translational research methods, results, and best 
practices. The leadership development begins with assuring that there is appropriate transitional leadership for 
the program through: a) deliberate mentorship of senior investigators in management skills, b) fostering 
research careers of newer investigators involved with the SCORE through mentoring and funds for ancillary 
studies to the SCORE projects, and c) stimulus grants open to the research community to broaden the scope 
of research into sex-differences across the Mayo Clinic Enterprise, including collaboration with the Mayo Clinic 
Center for Individualized Medicine and the Mayo Clinic Office of Health Disparities Research. Our SCORE 
Investigators are providing insight into best practices and policies through various venues, and have a proven 
track record of publications related to sex-differences methodology and research visioning. In addition, during 
the previous funding cycle, our investigators have established collaborative and synergistic programs with 
other NIH-funded Mayo Clinic resources and mentoring programs such as Building Interdisciplinary Careers in 
Women's Health (BIRCWH) and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science Program (CCaTS). During 
the renewal funding cycle, initiatives to develop curricula in sex- and gender-medicine will be continued and 
formalized. Research findings and best practices will continue to be disseminated through research symposia 
locally and at national professional meetings. The past productivity, the past successes, and the diversity of the 
Mayo Clinic SCORE Investigators, which represents over thirteen departments and divisions and multiple 
professional societies, assures the sustainability and the far reaching influence of our program on the future of 
research on women's health and sex-differences.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9936101
- **Project number:** 5U54AG044170-08
- **Recipient organization:** MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER
- **Principal Investigator:** MELISSA M. MORROW
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $193,091
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-06-01 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9936101

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9936101, Career Enhancement Core (5U54AG044170-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9936101. Licensed CC0.

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