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Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education (ASPiRE)

Award Number: R25GM152362
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/13/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/31/2029

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Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education (ASPiRE) - Attrition along the career development path attenuates the impact of programs designed to attract and support young people entering the biomedical sciences. Reasons for this attrition are many, but include under-preparation, insufficient mentorship, limited networking opportunities, and lack of engagement within the academic community. Weill Cornell Medicine has a longstanding institutional commitment to education, professional development, scientific excellence, and mentoring the next generation of scientists and physician scientists. The proposed program, Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education, ASPiRE will augment current WCM efforts by focusing on a population not targeted by existing educational programs: postbaccalaureate scholars. ASPiRE will leverage expertise cultivated over many decades, relationships with local and regional partner institutions (Cornell University, Hunter College, Brooklyn College) and WCM presence at national graduate and medical school recruitment meetings to recruit talented scholars who will benefit from support to be competitive for admission in PhD and MD/PhD programs. The selected scholars will be paired with a primary research faculty mentor based on their career interests, collegiate research experiences and the expertise of the faculty members. An additional faculty member, at an academic rank different from the research mentor, will serve as a career mentor. In addition, the scholars will be paired with current 1st or 2nd year graduate students who will serve as near-peer mentors. This tiered mentorship structure will ensure that our scholars have mentors and advisors at multiple levels of the professional development spectrum and thus exposure to the many factors and considerations along the academic scientific career path. The experiential research training will be complemented with professional development advising, coaching and skill building. We will also provide the expertise of an educational psychologist who will meet with students collectively and individually to assess and build personalized academic success strategies relevant to their roles as research trainees, graduate school applicants and future graduate/medical students. We expect that the combination of research education, career development coaching, tiered mentorship and cohort building activities will yield short- and long-term dividends. In the short term, we expect scholars to progress successfully to PhD or MD/PhD programs within two years of program participation. In the long term, we project that program participation will equip scholars with the skills for long and successful careers l as academic research faculty.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $239,808 )
2026	2026	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	002	3	3/19/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$399,592
2026	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	001	2	3/4/2026	OTHER REVISION	-$159,784
2026	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	2	2/20/2026	OTHER REVISION	$0
														Subtotal = $239,808

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	2	6/9/2025	TERMINATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $346,564 )
2024	2024	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	575 LEXINGTON AVE FL 9	NEW YORK	NY	10022	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	2	7/3/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$346,564
														Subtotal = $346,564

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $357,283 )
2023	2023	WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY	1300 YORK AVE	NEW YORK	NY	10065	NEW YORK	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	9/13/2023	NEW	$357,283
														Subtotal = $357,283

Grand Total All Awards = $943,655

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Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education (ASPiRE)

Award Number: R25GM152362

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/13/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/31/2029

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