# Career-Enhancement

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2020 · $362,411

## Abstract

SUMMARY
The University of Pennsylvania – Rutgers University TCORS Career Enhancement Core will foster a cadre of
interdisciplinary researchers with quality and breadth of experience necessary to conduct cutting-edge
research related to the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products, especially combustible
tobacco products and emerging MRTPs that consumers may use similarly to combustible tobacco.
Expertise will be concentrated within the theme of our center: effects of advertising, packaging and labeling on
perceptions, use and exposure of combustible tobacco products.
Career enhancement will be accomplished within a multi-disciplinary environment, where senior tobacco
regulatory science investigators with proven success as mentors will build the research capacity of pre-doctoral
fellows, postdoctoral fellows, and early stage investigators using an interdisciplinary co-mentored model.
Pilot project funds are critical to initiate research in tobacco regulatory science (TRS) among pre and
postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty, and investigators new to the field. As such, we will support meritorious pilot
projects annually.
Center wide initiatives also include inclusion of junior investigators on all primary projects and cores to
enhance their experience in scientific and administrative knowledge of conducting rigorous tobacco regulatory
science research in multi-center, transdisciplinary environments.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9999500
- **Project number:** 5U54CA229973-03
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** JANET E AUDRAIN-MCGOVERN
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $362,411
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-14 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9999500

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9999500, Career-Enhancement (5U54CA229973-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9999500. Licensed CC0.

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