As COGA data have served as a springboard for novel, independent research grants, the intellectual and analytic resources, along with these data, have nurtured the development of numerous scientists who have joined the consortium at various career stages. Many of COGA's original investigator team remain fully engaged in the project and provide mentorship to incoming early career scientists. The project has weathered the sometimes, unexpected loss of some of its early leaders, whose memory continues to inspire COGA's mission. Notably, the project has welcomed numerous investigators at early career stages and supported their careers via funding, support for independent grants, publications, leadership opportunities and importantly, the nurturance of an open, safe, egalitarian and collaborative framework for team science. Many of the current COGA investigators have traversed the academic pathway from graduate student or postdoctoral scholar to professorship within this >30 years period. Still others are part of the third and fourth generation of COGA scientists. Investigators at all career stages have leveraged the integrated data collection and analyses of COGA to fuel their independent work that was inspired by COGA
