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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">As part of the Research Center in Minority Institutions (RCMI) network and we are forwarding this new funding opportunity for clinical research pilot projects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">For more information, please review the attachments, visit <span style="color:blue"><a href="https://redcap.jabsom.hawaii.edu/redcap/surveys/?s=K4PJ3YH7LTFCLEPR"><span style="color:blue">RCMI-CC
Pilot (hawaii.edu)</span></a>,</span></span><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">or contact: Pam Bullard (pbullard@hawaii.edu)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A primary strategic goal of the RCMI Coordinating Center (RCMI-CC) is to improve minority health and to reduce ethnic and geographic disparities in health by coordinating the
development and facilitating the implementation of research across the RCMI Consortium, comprising 22 RCMI U54 Centers. To more effectively engage RCMI investigators and to spur inter-institutional collaborative research, the RCMI-CC is launching a Clinical
Research Pilot Projects Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Pilot Projects Program is intended to foster inter-institutional collaborations and mentoring by providing funding for hypothesis-driven clinical research projects on the
science of minority health and health disparities. In particular, this Pilot Projects Program solicits applications that involve inter-RCMI partnerships between post-doctoral fellows, early-career faculty and other early-stage investigators, and their RCMI
and/or non-RCMI mentors and collaborators in clinical research projects that utilize the infrastructure of the Investigator Development Core, Community Engagement Core and Research Infrastructure/Capacity Core.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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