Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina has received more than $11 million from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on trauma resilience.
The center will be known as the South Carolina Building Resilience through Innovative Interventions to promote Growth and Healing after Trauma COBRE, or the BRIGHT Center, according to an Oct. 23 news release from the health system. It will be directed by Carla Kmett Danielson, PhD, a clinical psychologist and the first woman to lead a COBRE at MUSC. This also marks the first COBRE at MUSC to be led by faculty members in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
Funded over five years, the center aims to equip early career trauma researchers with resources and mentoring to support the development of evidence-based interventions. The goal is to improve access to and quality of care for individuals affected by trauma and adversity.
The center will offer support through three research cores: the digital health core, the community engagement core and the dissemination and implementation science core, according to the release. Resources will be available to COBRE-supported investigators as well as trauma researchers across MUSC and South Carolina.
