# Career Enhancement Core (CEC)

> **NIH NIH U54** · EMORY UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $154,652

## Abstract

Career Enhancement Core Abstract
Women now account for about half of all participants in NIH funded clinical research. This provides an
unprecedented opportunity to rapidly expand data-driven recommendations and their use by purposefully
including consideration of sex as a biological variable during the design of studies, the tabulation of sex-
stratified data, the conduct of analyses, and the dissemination of results. The goal of the Emory SCORE is to
advance the quality of women’s health research and normalize the inclusion of sex as a biological variable in
all research domains at Emory and the Southeast region. The Career Enhancement Core (CEC) will advance
the goals of the Emory SCORE by leveraging the rich, collaborative and interdisciplinary research resources at
Emory to expand the number of scientists who either focus on women’s health research and sex/gender
science or integrate the priorities of those fields into their own research. The CEC will accomplish this through
three aims that focus on the provision of three tiers of innovative and high impact career enhancement
services: Individual, Collective, and Global. Individual-level career enhancement services (Aim 1) will include
funding for pilot grants, mentoring, and the integration of participants into opportunities for education and
training available through Emory SCORE partners (the Emory Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in
Women’s Health [BIRCWH] program, the Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance [GA CTSA], the
Emory Center for AIDS Research [CFAR], and the Women’s Interagency HIV Study [WIHS]) as well as other
Emory organizations. Collective-level career enhancement services (Aim 2) will include sex/gender science
training sessions and a “SexMatters RIP (research in progress) Club” for pilot investigators and investigators at
Emory and beyond whose research does not focus on, but is affected by, the techniques and findings of
sex/gender science. Global-level career enhancement services (Aim 3) will include the development and
international deployment of an innovative Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that will provide training in the
most effective way to include sex/gender as a research variable in scientific protocols and related applications
for funding to the NIH and other US-based agencies. In accomplishing its goals, the CEC will leverage the
robust research education of the Emory BIRCWH and institutional career enhancement infrastructure.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9938410
- **Project number:** 5U54AG062334-03
- **Recipient organization:** EMORY UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Marcia McDonnell Holstad
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $154,652
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-30 → 2023-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9938410

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9938410, Career Enhancement Core (CEC) (5U54AG062334-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9938410. Licensed CC0.

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