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Network Connects Investigators at Minority Institutions
NCRR will initially provide $9.5 million over three years to launch a network connecting researchers based at minority institutions and other collaborating institutions throughout the United States who are focused on studying and treating diseases that disproportionately affect minority populations.
The network will provide the necessary infrastructure and resources for facilitating multicenter, collaborative research that applies discoveries generated in the laboratory to clinical trials, as well as developing common practices in disease prevention and intervention in local communities. In particular, by providing informatics tools for analyzing and managing clinical research data, recruiting for clinical trials, and sharing information with patients, the network will enable researchers to collaborate more efficiently with each other and their communities.
The effort will be coordinated by Keith Norris, an expert in kidney disease at Charles R. Drew University in Los Angeles, Calif. In addition to Drew, participating institutions include Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.; University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tenn.; Hunter College, City University of New York, N.Y.; and Howard University, Washington, D.C. Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss., will be the site of the Data and Technology Coordinating Center for the network.
These institutions are part of NCRR’s Research Centers in Minority Institutions program, which aims to enhance the research capacity and infrastructure at minority colleges and universities that offer doctorates in health and health-related sciences.
