RCN: Communications Media for Mineralized Tissue Research

RCN：矿化组织研究的通信媒体

• 批准号: 0090234
• 负责人: Stephen Cowin
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY City College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-02-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0090234&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Communications; Media; Mineralized; Tissue

This grant will provide the resources to establish three communications media to foster the progress of bone research. The three communication/interaction media structures proposed are (a) a monthly Seminar Series at a site across the street from the Empire State Building, very near the major transportation hubs in New York City, (b) an Annual Workshop on a topic related to the mechanosensory system in bone and (c) the development of a Website that supports and sponsors a Bulletin Board, Cyberspace Bone Journal Club, Cyberspace Bone Seminar Series and other types of networking communications. The impact of the proposed monthly Seminar Series and the Website will be very broad in the spectrum of people they reach, from undergraduate to senior research professor. The Annual Workshop, on the other hand, is more focused on the active researcher, but students who are active researchers will make presentations as they have done in the past in these workshops. Thus, these three media structures are layered in levels of specialization corresponding to level of professional training. Moreover, the impact desired is different at the different ends of this people spectrum. The impact desired with the younger of our participants is to develop in them a lifelong interest in the subject, although they may not make research in this area a livelihood. The impact desired with the already committed researcher (both national and international) is to have these media become a part of his/her daily research life, like listening to the weather report. The primary objective of this proposed communication activity is to create interest, a sense of community, and enhanced understanding in bone research amongst all the participants, especially the involved graduate and undergraduate students. This will be achieved by assimilating information and making this information accessible and useful to participants, researchers farther afield, and the public at large. With respect to the people doing research, the objective is not to dictate research directions, but to stimulate research thinking by posing well-framed research questions. Thus, each year certain research questions will be formulated by the core participants and these research questions will be carefully developed in the communications media. The core participants are Adele Boskey (Head of the Mineralized Tissue Section at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Biochemistry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University), Timothy Bromage (Director of the Hard Tissue Research Unit and Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College of CUNY), Stephen C. Cowin (PI, Director of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering (NYCBE) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY)), Susannah P. Fritton (Director of the Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, New York Center for Biomedical Engineering and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of CUNY), X. Edward Guo (Director of the Bone Bioengineering Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Columbia University), Clinton T. Rubin (Director of the Musculo-Skeletal Research Laboratory and Professor in the Departments of Orthopedics and Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Stony Brook) and Mitchell B. Schaffler (Director of Orthopaedic Research and Professor of Orthopedics, Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine). Each of these people represents a community consisting of senior bone research people, graduate students and, in most cases, undergraduate students.

这笔赠款将提供资源，建立三个通信媒体，以促进骨骼研究的进展。建议的三种交流/互动媒体结构是：（a）在帝国大厦对面的一个地点举办每月一次的研讨会系列，非常靠近纽约市的主要交通枢纽;（B）举办关于骨骼机械感觉系统主题的年度研讨会;以及（c）开发一个网站，支持和赞助一个公告板、网络空间骨骼杂志俱乐部、网络空间骨系列研讨会和其他类型的网络通信。拟议的每月研讨会系列和网站的影响将是非常广泛的人，他们达到的范围，从本科生到高级研究教授。另一方面，年度研讨会更关注活跃的研究人员，但活跃的研究人员的学生将像过去在这些研讨会上所做的那样进行演讲。因此，这三个媒体结构按专业化程度分层，与专业培训水平相对应。此外，在这一人群的不同末端，所期望的影响也不同。我们希望对年轻的参与者产生的影响是培养他们对该主题的终身兴趣，尽管他们可能不会以该领域的研究为生计。对已经投入研究的研究人员（包括国内和国际研究人员）的影响是让这些媒体成为他/她日常研究生活的一部分，就像听天气预报一样。这项拟议的交流活动的主要目标是在所有参与者（特别是参与的研究生和本科生）中创造兴趣、社区意识和增强对骨研究的理解。这将通过吸收信息并使这些信息对参与者、更远的研究人员和广大公众开放和有用来实现。对于从事研究的人来说，目标不是规定研究方向，而是通过提出框架良好的研究问题来激发研究思维。因此，每年将由核心参与者制定某些研究问题，这些研究问题将在传播媒体上仔细制定。核心参与者是Adele Boskey（特殊外科医院矿化组织科主任和康奈尔大学威尔医学院生物化学教授），Timothy Bromage（纽约市立大学亨特学院硬组织研究室主任和人类学教授），Stephen C. Cowin（PI，纽约生物医学工程中心（NYCBE）主任和纽约市立大学（CUNY）城市学院机械工程教授），Susannah P. Fritton（纽约生物医学工程中心组织力学实验室主任和纽约市立大学城市学院机械工程助理教授），X. Edward Guo（哥伦比亚大学骨生物工程实验室主任、生物工程助理教授）、Clinton T.鲁宾（纽约州立大学斯托尼布鲁克骨科和机械工程系教授，肌肉骨骼研究实验室主任）和米切尔B。Schaffler（西奈山医学院骨科研究主任兼骨科、细胞生物学和解剖学教授）。这些人中的每一个都代表了一个由高级骨骼研究人员、研究生和大多数情况下的本科生组成的社区。