Xavier RCMI Renewal Application-Administrative Core

总结 为了保持泽维尔的整体研究势头，提高研究能力，并推进到一个新的水平， RCMI癌症研究中心在少数民族健康和健康差异的生物医学研究方面取得了卓越的成就。 将实施项目活动，以支持早期阶段、代表性不足的研究者，维护核心设施 支持泽维尔研究人员在职业发展的各个层面，并促进和维持长期， Xavier与当地社区建立双向伙伴关系，以解决癌症健康差距问题。的 拟议中的RCMI中心将包括两个领域的三个主要研究项目：基础生物医学研究 和行为研究，和4个核心：行政核心，研究者发展核心， 研究基础设施核心和社区参与核心。这些方案将实施， 实现以下具体目标：目标1。提高泽维尔的基础生物医学和生物技术的研究能力， 行为研究RCMI计划将维持、加强和优化核心服务，以支持 泽维尔调查员。核心设施将进行重组、整合，业务将得到精简， 最大限度地提高泽维尔正在进行的研究项目的生产力和效率。目标二。使泽维尔调查员 在获得外部资金方面更具竞争力。这将通过1）支持两项研究来实现 基础生物医学领域的一个项目和行为研究领域的一个研究项目， 项目PI在R 01应用中具有竞争力; 2）提供关键的研究资源，如共享的 通过研究基础设施进行竞争性研究项目所需的最先进的仪器 核心; 3）通过研究者发展核心，提供试点资金，以获得必要的初步 为发展可获资助的研究计划提供数据;及4）透过拨款提供资助培训 写作讲习班和专业审查服务。目标3：促进Xavier新员工的职业发展， 通过试点项目基金和启动研究/赠款“管道”， 支持新教师五年，以获得校外资助。目标4。提高全体科学工作者的素质 通过半年一次专题讨论会，调查和促进关于少数群体健康和健康差距的研究， 每年举办关于少数民族健康质量和健康差距研究的讲习班， 科学实践、适当的统计使用和负责任的实验室实践 程度.通过社区参与核心和研究者发展核心，RCMI 该计划将促进基础和行为研究人员，临床医生和 社区利益相关者。目标5。与社区组织建立可持续的关系， 将与泽维尔的研究人员合作。将建立一个社区参与核心，以1）促进和 通过双向分享干预战略知识，维持社区与学术界的伙伴关系 癌症健康差异的科学发现; 2）促进更多的社区参与， 研究优先事项，并为学术界-从业者-社区研究伙伴关系创造更多机会; 3)在研究人员、社区成员、卫生系统、 和潜在的研究参与者进行创新和变革性的研究， 社区卫生需求; 4）为研究人员提供支持，以更好地向社区传播研究结果。 科学界、社区组织和外行社区。

Summary To sustain Xavier’s overall research momentum, enhance research capacity, and advance to the next level of excellence in biomedical research on minority health and health disparities, the RCMI Cancer Research Center will implement program activities to support early stage, underrepresented investigators, maintain core facilities to support Xavier researchers at all levels of career development, and to promote and sustain long-lasting, bidirectional partnerships between Xavier and local communities to address cancer health disparities. The proposed RCMI Center will consist of three major research projects in two areas: basic biomedical research and behavioral research, and 4 Cores: the Administrative Core, the Investigator Development Core, the Research Infrastructure Core, and the Community Engagement Core. These programs will be implemented to achieve the following specific aims: Aim 1. Enhance Xavier’s research capacity for basic biomedical and behavioral research. The RCMI program will maintain, strengthen and optimize core services in support of Xavier investigators. Core facilities will be restructured, consolidated, and operations will be streamlined to maximize productivity and efficiency of Xavier’s ongoing research projects. Aim 2. Enable Xavier investigators to become more competitive in obtaining external funding. This will be achieved by 1) supporting two research projects in the basic biomedical area and one research project in the behavioral research area to enable these project PIs to become competitive in R01 applications; 2) providing critical research resources such as shared state-of-the-art instrumentation required in a competitive research project through the Research Infrastructure Core; 3) providing, through the Investigator Development Core, pilot funding to obtain necessary preliminary data for development of fundable research proposals; and 4) providing grantsmanship training through grant writing workshops and professional review services. Aim 3. Promote career enhancement of Xavier’s new and early stage investigators through a pilot project fund and by initiating a research/grantsmanship “pipeline” supporting new faculty for five years to obtain extramural funding. Aim 4. Enhance the quality of all scientific inquiry and promote research on minority health and health disparities by semi-annual symposiums and workshops on the quality of minority health and health disparities research each year to offer training in good scientific practices, appropriate statistical usage, and responsible laboratory practices for researchers at all levels. Working through the Community Engagement Core and the Investigator Development Core, the RCMI program will foster close interactions and collaborations among basic and behavior researchers, clinicians, and community stakeholders. Aim 5. Establish sustainable relationships with community-based organizations that will partner with Xavier researchers. A Community Engagement Core will be established to 1) promote and sustain community-academic partnerships through bidirectional knowledge sharing on intervention strategies and scientific discovery in cancer health disparities; 2) facilitate greater community involvement in setting research priorities and creating more opportunities for academic-practitioner-community research partnerships; 3) build capacity (knowledge and skills) among research investigators, community members, health systems, and potential research participants to conduct innovative and transformative research that addresses community health needs; 4) provide support for investigators to better disseminate research findings to the scientific community, community organizations, and lay communities.