# Investigator Development Core

> **NIH NIH U54** · NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $1,044,137

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
The overall goal of the Investigator Development Core (IDC) is to support the development of early career
investigators, specifically junior faculty and postdoctoral scholars, in basic biomedical, behavioral, and clinical
sciences at Northern Arizona University. This goal will be met through two aims that will establish a Pilot
Project Program (PPP) to support faculty, and a Postdoctoral Scholar Program (PSP) to support and mentor
postdoctoral researchers. The PPP will provide preliminary support and mentoring to early career investigators
and to established faculty who are changing research directions toward health equity research, with the
objective of generating preliminary data that will increase investigators' competitiveness for NIH and other
external health- and health equity-related research funding. Funds will be provided for new projects, and for the
generation or analysis of data needed for proposal revision and resubmission. The PSP program will bring a
cohort of postdoctoral scholars to NAU to conduct health equity-related research in the basic biomedical,
behavioral, and clinical sciences. The IDC will work closely with the Administrative Core to provide mentoring
opportunities; with the Research Infrastructure Core to enhance the quality of the research design and
interpretation; and with the Community Engagement Core to develop meaningful health equity research
projects that serve the needs of our community partners. The proposed outcome of this IDC is to create
cohorts of health equity researchers whose interactions will be interdisciplinary and thus synergistic.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9967855
- **Project number:** 5U54MD012388-04
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Diane M Stearns
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $1,044,137
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9967855

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9967855, Investigator Development Core (5U54MD012388-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9967855. Licensed CC0.

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