# Core F: Research Education Component (RL5)

> **NIH NIH P30** · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $74,067

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY – RESEARCH EDUCATION COMPONENT
The newly configured Research Education Component will substantially enhance existing research
education programs on aging, AD and related disorders. Its overall goal will be to optimize the training of a
workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical needs in AD-related research. It will
support research and mentoring experiences that promote the development of future leaders who can
improve clinical interventions by integrating clinical insights with knowledge of basic sciences. In keeping
with the overall theme of our ADC, the research education program will emphasize the heterogeneity of brain
aging and dementia so that the basic scientists are exposed to the complexity of the clinical presentations
while the clinicians appreciate the heterogeneity of the underlying biological phenomena. The REC will be
led by Marsel Mesulam (ADC Director and Head of a Clinical Training Program in Behavioral Neurology &
Neuropsychiatry) and Darby Morhardt (Leader of the Outreach and Education Core), and will be staffed by
senior faculty of the ADC. It will be leveraged by the extensive infrastructure of the Northwestern Clinical and
Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) for Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) programs, and by
the Northwestern University Graduate School and the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern’s Feinberg
School of Medicine for diversity recruitment. The new Core will have a broad mandate that will interact with
the activities of all other ADC components and will enhance the education of doctoral candidates, post-
doctoral fellows and faculty through innovative multidisciplinary mechanisms designed to bridge the gap
between clinical and basic research experience in the areas of aging, AD and related disorders. The REC
will also provide personalized mentoring suited to the background and career aspiration of individual
research trainees through programs that include formal instruction on the Responsible Conduct of Research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9973056
- **Project number:** 5P30AG013854-25
- **Recipient organization:** NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MAREK-MARSEL M MESULAM
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $74,067
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9973056

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9973056, Core F: Research Education Component (RL5) (5P30AG013854-25). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9973056. Licensed CC0.

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