Texas Southern is working to enhance its biomedical research capability through continuous infrastructure building and development. All investigators will receive competitive extramural support for biomedical research, particularly on diseases that disproportionately impact underrepresented minorities (URMs). By fostering an environment conducive to scientific inquiry, we can promote new basic science research focused on diseases affecting minority populations and provide enhanced mechanisms for the development of collaborations and partnerships with community-based organizations.

The HEALTH Center for Addictions Research and Cancer Prevention and Research Centers in Minority Institutions nurture and accelerate NIH funding portfolios for scientists underrepresented in the health sciences, provide evidence-based group mentoring and career development opportunities for underrepresented minoritized (URM) postdocs and assistant professors, and eliminate the translational gap by rapidly ushering scientific breakthroughs into culturally-informed dissemination products and community-embedded interventions.

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 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.