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UAB/Tuskegee Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (UAB/TU FIRST) Partnership (NIH U54)

Award Number: U54CA267746
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/22/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/08/2025

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UAB/Tuskegee Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (UAB/TU FIRST) Partnership (NIH U54) - The overarching goal of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)/Tuskegee University (TU) Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) Partnership is to create systemic and sustainable culture change to further support inclusive excellence in research at both institutions. Within our theme of Health Disparities, we will build a community of scientists committed to inclusive excellence by recruiting 12 early-career faculty committed to promoting diversity and inclusion and interested in addressing health disparities. These faculty will be hired across 3-4 clusters representing areas of research strength and opportunity across our institutions: cancer, obesity and diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and neuroscience. Program hires will be designated as Benjamin-Carver Scientists in honor of two barrier-breaking investigator leaders – Regina Benjamin, MD and George Washington Carver. Our Scientists will be surrounded by a comprehensive support infrastructure including sponsors, mentors, career coaches, institutional research navigators, and professional development opportunities to help them mitigate the difficulties experienced by new hires and accelerate the development of collaborative networks and peer support. We have targeted our activities and support mechanisms to ensure that they impact all levels of influence in the Social Ecological Model including Individual, Interpersonal, Organizational, Community and Policy. All levels are reflected in the following specific aims: 1) recruit and hire clusters of Benjamin-Carver Scientists who are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in areas of shared research need and support them by implementing individual career development plans, enhanced with scientific mentoring, career coaching, and advocate sponsorship; 2) provide enhanced support for new faculty through an Office of Integrated Research Support in which Research Navigators will help new faculty coordinate sponsor, mentor, and career coaching support; connect new faculty to existing support resources; and assist new faculty with logistic, fiscal, and regulatory matters related to proposal development and grants management; 3) provide extended opportunities for professional development and networking, including a diverse and inclusive Research Community Collaboratory to help faculty build a collaborative network of peers; 4) expand a series of diversity and inclusion programs at both UAB and Tuskegee to help foster systemic and sustainable cultural change; 5) institute changes to institutional policies and environment to support sustainable institutional culture change, including initiatives to support diverse and inclusive hiring and retention; and 6) evaluate the UAB/TU FIRST Partnership and work with the FIRST Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC) to determine whether this cohort and cluster design model of faculty hiring, sponsorship, continual mentoring, and professional development, embedded within programs to create academic cultures of inclusive excellence produces significant change in metrics of institutional culture.


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: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	4	4/10/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $3,516,394 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	002	3	5/23/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$35,226
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	003	4	9/11/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$3,481,168
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	3	12/11/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH STREET	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	3	2/7/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $3,516,394

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $4,380,881 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	3	9/11/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$4,380,881
														Subtotal = $4,380,881

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $4,372,695 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	2	9/14/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$4,372,695
														Subtotal = $4,372,695

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $421,329 )
2021	2021	UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM	701 S 20TH ST	BIRMINGHAM	AL	35294	JEFFERSON	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	9/22/2021	NEW	$421,329
														Subtotal = $421,329

Grand Total All Awards = $12,691,299

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UAB/Tuskegee Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (UAB/TU FIRST) Partnership (NIH U54)

Award Number: U54CA267746

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

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

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/22/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 04/08/2025

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