# Research Education

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · 2020 · $92,271

## Abstract

7. Project Summary- REC
The purpose of the Research Education Core (REC) is to foster the career development of junior faculty from
multiple disciplines into academic scientists in gerontology and geriatrics, focusing on theme of exercise and
activity-based rehabilitation and recovery research. The REC supports mentor-based research training and
education to promote the career development of REC Scholars as well as other junior faculty, fellows and
students pursuing research careers in aging. The UM-OAIC has a successful history of mentored training that
crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to develop novel research for improving function and independence
in older persons. This has enriched the cadre of scientists at UM and elsewhere conducting aging research in
exercise and rehabilitation science. The UM-OAIC RCDC, now REC, has evolved over 20 years to develop
unique components, and is innovative in that it: attracts and brings junior faculty from multiple departments,
medical subspecialties, and schools at UM in Baltimore and Baltimore County together to pursue
interdisciplinary research and research training in aging; uses research working groups (RWG) individualized
to each trainee to pursue and facilitate interdisciplinary studies focused on translational research projects;
integrates OAIC programs with other career development programs at the University of Maryland, including the
Office of Research Career Development and the Clinical Research Education and Training Program; and
develops individualized career development plans and RWGs to guide and measure Scholar’s progress. The
specific aims of the REC are to: a). recruit, select and support REC scholars; b). mentor REC scholars and
affiliated scholars; c). provide career development opportunities in areas relevant to aging research and d.
evaluate the activities of the REC. The REC’s comprehensive research training program has developed junior
scholars trained with skills at the bench and in the conduct of clinical research, poised to translate clinical
problems into mechanistic studies, and laboratory findings into clinical application in the elderly. That is why
our scholars are so successful in the receipt of federal career development awards (NIH Ks and VA CDAs),
and subsequent independent research funding and academic promotion.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9962229
- **Project number:** 5P30AG028747-15
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
- **Principal Investigator:** JAY MAGAZINER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $92,271
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9962229

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9962229, Research Education (5P30AG028747-15). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9962229. Licensed CC0.

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