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Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research - Community Engagement and Outreach Core

The Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research (MCCTR) is an ambitious enterprise designed to promote the success of research focusing on all major diseases that impact Mississippians. As one of MCCTR's five partner institutions, USM houses the Community Engagement and Outreach (CEO) Core. Their mission is to develop a powerful and sustainable research enterprise that will have an important public health impact by reducing obesity and cardiometabolic-related diseases in Mississippi.

MCCTR proudly offers an annual one-week residential Community Engagement and Outreach Summer Institute that trains selected junior faculty members from all major Mississippi universities in the principles and practice of CEO, and offers opportunities for them to compete for funding for clinical, translational and population-related pilot research projects. Thus, in addition to training junior investigators from partner institutions in independent CEO, the CEO Institute helps to identify promising CEnR investigators for support through the MCCTR Pilot Projects Program. Click Here to Learn More

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The MCCTR Pilot Projects Program supports clinical, translational and population-based research projects on all major diseases that impact Mississippians and that can become the basis for competitive extramural funding applications. Thus, major criterion for review of these applications is competitiveness for extramural funding if pilot grant funding is awarded.

The program is designed to promote multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary collaboration, and to ensure equitable and productive distribution of research support across the MCCTR partner institutions. Click Here to Learn More

Holly Huye

Dr. Holly Huye

USM CEO Core Director

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Kristie Knox

Kristie Knox

Assistant Director for Community Engagement and Outreach

Joseph Greene Hall

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Monicah Brumfield

Program Coordinator

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Peter Paprzycki

Peter Paprzycki

Research Analyst/Statistician

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