1 P30 AG059301-01 (Markides – Riosmena MPI)
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: The Texas Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)
Goal: Provide an infrastructure that facilities the development of research on health and aging in minority populations with special focus on the Hispanic population in the United States as well as in Mexico.
Period: 07/01/23 – 06/30/28
Role: Associate Leader of the Leadership and Administrative Core and Associate Leader of the Analysis Core
HRSA-22-042 Centers of Excellence (Pérez – PI)
Sponsor: HRSA-22-042
Title: UTMB Center of Excellence for Professional Advancement and Research (COEPAR).
Goal: To strengthen the nation’s capacity to produce a diverse, culturally competent health care workforce. COE will provide funding for innovative resource and education centers to recruit, train, and retain underrepresented minority students and faculty at health professions schools.
Period: 07/01/23 – 06/30/27
Role: Co-Investigator. Faculty/Student Research Core Lead
P30 AG024832 (Morrow - Goodwin - MPI)
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: UTMB Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center
Goal: The major goal of this center grant is to optimize functional recovery in diverse geriatric populations using an integrative approach to translate basic discoveries into interventions for functional recovery and improve the trajectories of functional loss and disability.
Period: 06/01/10-06/30/25
Role: Hispanic Aging Council
2 P30 AG024832-16 (Morrow - Goodwin - MPI)
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: UTMB Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC)
The major goal of this center grant is to conduct translational research on ways for older Americans to lead a more independent life. The center is focused on translating pathways of function loss and gain into Interventions to optimize functional recovery in diverse geriatric populations.
Period: 8/1/2020 – 6/30/25
Role: Hispanic Aging Council
T32 AG000270 (Downer- PI)
Sponsor: NIH/National Institute on Aging
Title: Health of Older Minorities
Goal: Pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program to recruit academically promising candidates into the study of health of older minorities.
Period: 09/01/23 – 08/31/28
Role: Mentor