<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news-events/news/2023/12-13-2023.html" dsn="news"><title>NIH Grants $1.72M To SUNY Downstate Professor for Study of Underrepresented Research Mentorship Networks</title><item_date>12/13/2023 11:37:40 AM</item_date><author>Office of Communications &amp; Marketing</author><thumbnail><img src="" alt=""/></thumbnail><summary>SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University praised W. Marcus Lambert, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research Strategy and Operations and Associate Professor at Downstate Health Sciences University, recognizing his achievement in securing a five-year $1.72M National Institutes of Health Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (NIH MIRA) R35 grant (an R01-equivalent mechanism) for his research on effective mentorship networks for underrepresented researchers. </summary><featured/></item>