Recruitment Core

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The goal of the Recruitment core is to increase the capacity of the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) U54 Center for Translational Research in Health Disparities (CTRHD) to support translational research and the development of Multidisciplinary Translational Teams (MDTTs) that can effectively address and eliminate health disparities in underserved communities. To achieve this, having a strong Data Science infrastructure at MSM would be critical. Thus, given a central goal of the CTRHD as outlined above, it has been identified that additional in-house genomics and biomedical informatics expertise, with a translational research background, at the faculty level is needed to enhance and maintain access to the required informatics infrastructure to support the CTRHD. MSM is uniquely situated to address inequalities in health and URM genomics training. MSM is one of two historically black medical schools established in the twentieth century, with the purpose of training URM students to become physicians, biomedical scientists, and public health professionals. Genomic research has ushered in a new era in the science and praxis of preserving, restoring, and prolonging human health; however, there is a paucity of diverse researchers and most of the studies to date have focused on European ancestral populations. Genomics/multiomics research offers tremendous challenges and opportunities for improving human health. To this end, the Recruitment Core will pursue the following specific aims: Aim I: recruit two mid-career faculty, a genetics/ genomics faculty and a biomedical informatician faculty to strengthen our informatics infrastructure to support the goals of the CTRHD; Aim II: contribute to the Health disparities research across disciplines by increasing and expanding MSM’s biomedical informatics capacity and service in translational genomics and bioinformatics; Aim III: enhance biomedical informatics support to basic, behavioral, and clinical researchers at MSM that will aid in the transformation of our MSM Data Scientists; and, Aim IV: provide translational bioinformatics support for projects, mentored research education, training and career development in minority health and health disparities research. The proposed objectives meet MSM’s new priorities that include becoming leaders in genomics and precision medicine, new partnerships with area universities, local and national, to bolster education, catalyze and strengthen growth in areas of omics, and sustainability.