# Career Enhancement Program

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2020 · $88,797

## Abstract

ABSTRACT: Career Enhancement Program (CEP). The goal of the University of Iowa/Mayo Clinic 
Lymphoma SPORE (SPORE) Career Enhancement Program (CEP) is to provide support (both financial 
support and extensive mentorship) to highly promising, well-trained scientists interested in pursuing a career in 
translational lymphoma research. The CEP allows for the support each year of two highly promising 
investigators who are engaged in SPORE research. The extensive research and training base available at 
these two institutions as well as the infrastructure of the SPORE provides an outstanding foundation for the 
SPORE CEP. Successful candidates for the SPORE CEP are typically young investigators (senior postdoctoral 
fellows about to begin their faculty careers, and young faculty) in translational, multidisciplinary basic, clinical or 
population-based lymphoma research. On occasion, the CEP is used to assist more experienced, successful 
investigators interested in shifting their research focus toward translational lymphoma research. The SPORE 
CEP provides $50,000 for one year ($25,000 from SPORE funds and institutional support of $25,000 from the 
University of Iowa or Mayo Clinic resources) for each of two awards per year. A second year of support is 
possible based on progress and successful re-competition. During this most recent funding period (years 11- 
15), 10 investigators, including two under-represented minority faculty and four women, received CEP awards 
and were each supported for 1 year. They all remain active translational investigators in the field of lymphoid 
malignancies with 9 of the 10 still involved with the SPORE and the 10th a successful investigator at another 
institution. The CEP awardee (Gupta) from a previous funding period was a co-leader on the current Project 3. 
In this renewal application, another CEP awardee (Feldman) has become Project 1 co-leader and also Director 
of the Biospecimens Core. The research of Dr. Z. Yang was important to the proposed Project 1 and Dr. 
Asmann's research has led to her role in the Biospecimens and Bioinformatics Core in this renewal. During the 
next funding period, the SPORE will maintain: (1) a stringent candidate selection system that encourages 
applications from minorities and women; (2) comprehensive trainee guidance by a mentor; (3) support through 
a scientific mentor group (the Individual Trainee Mentorship Committee) comprised of investigators with 
expertise in each trainee's area of interest; (4) multi-disciplinary research courses and on-going training 
activities such as the Multidisciplinary Cancer Seminar Series and Lymphoma Group meetings at both sites; 
(5) encouragement of collaboration with investigator group meetings at both sites; (6) encouragement of 
collaboration with investigators at both Iowa and Mayo and (7) opportunities for further research enhancement 
through the Developmental Research Program and full Projects.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9988177
- **Project number:** 5P50CA097274-19
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** Jon C.D. Houtman
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $88,797
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → —

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9988177

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9988177, Career Enhancement Program (5P50CA097274-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9988177. Licensed CC0.

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