University of NewMexico/Harvard PREM: Leadership in Biomaterials

新墨西哥大学/哈佛大学 PREM：生物材料领域的领导地位

• 批准号: 0611616
• 负责人: Julia Fulghum
• 金额: $ 253.75万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0611616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; NewMexico; Harvard; PREM; Leadership

UNM/Harvard PREM: Leadership in BiomaterialsWe have established a research and educational partnership between the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Harvard University, the University of New Mexico (UNM), the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) and the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS). This project, funded through the NSFs program on Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) will focus on a promising, multidisciplinary area of materials technology: biomaterials, which are materials (synthetic and natural; solid and sometimes liquid) used in medical devices or in contact with biological systems. While biomaterials represent a huge and rapidly growing economic component of our health care system (estimated at over $100 billion per year worldwide), they also provide an important context for increasing the relevance of materials research careers for students from under-represented groups. We are committed to this premise and have devised a plan for providing logical research connections with real-world issues in minority communities. This connection will allow us to efficiently utilize biomaterials technologies to motivate students from under-represented groups to pursue research careers. The partnership will integrate alliances with local educational institutions, focusing on education and training of minority students, teacher-education, team-based research, and professional development at all levels to result in substantive institutional and infrastructure development. This systematic approach will have an enormous impact by achieving the goals of the PREM in the short term, while guaranteeing an enduring legacy for the NSF investment in the form of an active, multi-faceted, biomaterials education and research program in the state of New Mexico.The component subprojects will be focused on developing new materials technologies for three areas of medicine that are especially problematic in minority populations: infectious diseases (inexpensive detection and diagnosis), cardiovascular diseases (tissue engineering approaches to small diameter vascular grafts and heart valves) and cancer (cost effective, individualized, genomic sequencing for diagnosis and prognosis). In each research project, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional teams will be assembled to synergistically maximize research and training efforts while taking full advantage of the spectrum of state-of-the-art facilities available at Harvard and UNM.This project will have an immediate impact on the education of minority students by partnering APS, an urban school district with a large minority population, SIPI, a tribal college with an emphasis in science, technology, engineering and math education, UNM, a Hispanic Serving Research University, and Harvard University. We will work closely with a number of minority focused science and engineering organizations to both facilitate outreach activities with APS and to recruit talented students from UNM, SIPI and APS to participate in our research projects. Partnering with Harvard provides important access to enabling expertise and equipment to facilitate biomaterials research and education development in New Mexico. Students will benefit from this partnership with Harvard by gaining access to team-based research experiences, new course offerings, networks of research professionals, professional development resources, and community outreach experience. This combination of activities will be particularly well suited for encouraging our students to strive for the highest level of research and educational careers, especially in academia. We will actively promote materials research and education as an important and relevant emergent career field, and will track the number of students that ultimately make research and education their career choices. Critically, this project, by supporting the career development of several new faculty at UNM, will enable us to institutionalize biomaterials research and education as a pillar of the first significant biomedical engineering educational program in the state of New Mexico. Success with this program will not only benefit all of the institutions involved but will have the potential to positively impact the diversity of the nations human resource pool in materials science for many years to come. The partnership will establish an exemplary tradition in minority materials education and is a logical step in enhancing the educational research infrastructure in the state of New Mexico, while allowing us to become competitive for the highest level of NSF support.

UNM/哈佛PREM：生物材料的领导地位我们已经在哈佛大学的材料研究科学与工程中心（MRSEC）、新墨西哥州大学（UNM）、西南印度理工学院（SIPI）和阿尔伯克基公立学校（APS）之间建立了研究和教育合作伙伴关系。该项目由NSF材料研究和教育伙伴关系（PREM）计划资助，将专注于材料技术的一个有前途的多学科领域：生物材料，即用于医疗器械或与生物系统接触的材料（合成和天然;固体，有时是液体）。虽然生物材料是我们医疗保健系统中一个巨大且快速增长的经济组成部分（全球估计每年超过1000亿美元），但它们也为来自代表性不足群体的学生增加材料研究职业的相关性提供了重要背景。我们致力于这一前提，并制定了一项计划，为少数民族社区的现实问题提供逻辑研究联系。这种联系将使我们能够有效地利用生物材料技术，激励来自代表性不足群体的学生从事研究事业。该伙伴关系将与当地教育机构结成联盟，重点是少数民族学生的教育和培训、师资教育、团队研究和各级专业发展，以实现实质性的机构和基础设施发展。这种系统的方法将产生巨大的影响，在短期内实现PREM的目标，同时保证在新墨西哥州积极的，多方面的，生物材料教育和研究计划的形式为NSF投资的持久遗产。组成子项目将集中在开发新材料技术的三个领域的医学，特别是在少数民族人口的问题：传染病（廉价的检测和诊断）、心血管疾病（小直径血管移植物和心脏瓣膜的组织工程方法）和癌症（用于诊断和预后的具有成本效益的个性化基因组测序）。在每个研究项目中，多学科，多机构的团队将聚集在一起，以协同最大限度地提高研究和培训工作，同时充分利用哈佛和UNM提供的最先进的设施。一所以科学、技术、工程和数学教育为重点的部落学院，一所拉美裔服务研究型大学，以及哈佛大学。我们将与一些以少数民族为重点的科学和工程组织密切合作，以促进与APS的外联活动，并从UNM，SIPI和APS招募有才华的学生参加我们的研究项目。与哈佛合作提供了重要的机会，使专业知识和设备，以促进生物材料的研究和教育发展在新墨西哥州。学生将从与哈佛的合作中受益，获得基于团队的研究经验，新课程，研究专业人士网络，专业发展资源和社区外展经验。这种活动的结合将特别适合鼓励我们的学生争取最高水平的研究和教育事业，特别是在学术界。我们将积极推动材料研究和教育作为一个重要的和相关的新兴职业领域，并将跟踪最终使研究和教育他们的职业选择的学生人数。至关重要的是，该项目通过支持UNM几个新教师的职业发展，将使我们能够将生物材料研究和教育制度化，成为新墨西哥州第一个重要的生物医学工程教育计划的支柱。该计划的成功不仅将使所有相关机构受益，而且将有可能在未来多年对国家材料科学人力资源库的多样性产生积极影响。该伙伴关系将建立在少数民族材料教育的典范传统，是加强新墨西哥州的教育研究基础设施的一个合乎逻辑的步骤，同时使我们成为竞争的NSF支持的最高水平。