Geisel's $12 Million NIH COBRE Grant to Help Train Junior Faculty in Implementation Science

Elizabeth Murnane, the Charles H. Gaut & Charles A. Norberg Assistant Professor of Engineering (Photo by Eli Burakian '00)

The new program will be funded as an Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) from NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The COBRE grant will fund 50 percent of the salaries of at least five to eight research project leaders, allowing them to develop innovative implementation science research proposals across a broad range of areas.

In addition to Murnane, the group includes: Caitlin Howe, assistant professor of epidemiology; Terri Lewinson, associate professor of health policy and clinical practice and of epidemiology; and Kaitlyn Ahlers, assistant professor of psychiatry and a child psychologist at Dartmouth Health.

"With federal funding for implementation research growing rapidly, there remains a critical gap in academic development opportunities for early-stage investigators to be trained and mentored in implementation science along with a lack of resources to support their academic trajectory toward independence with RO1 funding," explains Jeremiah Brown MS'03 PhD'06, professor of epidemiology and founding director of the Dartmouth Center for Implementation Science, who will serve as the principal investigator of the COBRE grant.