The RCMI Cancer Research Center at Xavier University of Louisiana will build biomedical research infrastructure to support early stage, underrepresented investigators to conduct high quality and impactful research on minority health and health disparities, especially in the area of cancer. The RCMI will be a multi-component research center that includes a comprehensive research infrastructure core to provide the most needed scientific tools for Xavier investigators, an investigator development core to better prepare our early stage investigators for research success in competitive extramural support, particularly from NIH, and a community engagement core to promote research on minority health and health disparities and establish sustainable partnerships with community based programs in low income, minority neighborhoods.

Supported by the RCMI funding, the Center for Cancer Research and Therapeutic Development is a major research center with a trilateral mission: 1) conduct basic and translational cancer research, 2) train the next generation of biomedical scientists, 3) raise awareness for prostate cancer that disproportionately affects the African American community.

The overall objective of the Health Disparities Research Center at UCR is to build capacity in community-based research across all of the communities we serve in Inland Southern California. The center brings together broad interdisciplinary approaches including environmental, biomedical, and social science methods, to study health disparities. Our training and development activities are available to graduate, postdoctoral, and new principal investigators, as well as to established STEM researchers.

The overall goal of the SHERC is to increase basic biomedical, clinical, and behavioral research at NAU to address health disparities and advance health equity among diverse populations of the southwestern United States.

The goals of the SDSU HealthLINK Center for Transdisciplinary Health Disparities Research are to bring a behavioral-, clinical- and population-focus to the work funded under the RCMI program, as well as foster innovations in relevant, sustainable, and translatable approaches for conducting partner-engaged research to address health disparities.

The mission of RCMI Center for Health Disparities Research (RCHDR) at Jackson State University (JSU) isto conduct innovative biomedical, socio-behavioral, clinical, and/or translational research aimed at improving minority health and reducing or eliminating health disparities in Mississippi. RCHDR accomplishes its mission through strategic investments in critical research infrastructure, community engagement, and training/building a critical mass of biomedical scientists to address important health disparities issues of concern to vulnerable and underserved communities. The Center has established an excellent research ecosystem that fosters scientific discoveries and team science to maximize research productivity.