Drug Discovery and Biomedical Research Training (DDBRT) Program for Underserved Minority Youth

针对服务不足的少数族裔青年的药物发现和生物医学研究培训 (DDBRT) 计划

• 批准号: 10407963
• 负责人: Yen Dang
• 金额: $ 26.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10407963
• 关键词: 3D Print; Admission activity; Age; Animal Behavior; Antibiotics; Area; Attitude; Awareness; Behavior; Biomedical Research; Clinical Research; College Preparation; Community Pharmacy; County; Critical Thinking; Data; Doctor of Pharmacy; Dosage Forms; Drug Delivery Systems; Drug Design; Drug Targeting; Education; Educational Curriculum; Enrollment; Epilepsy; Faculty; Family; Fostering; Goals; Hand; Health; Healthcare; High Pressure Liquid Chromatography; High School Student; Hospitals; Institution; Instruction; Kinesiology; Learning; Link; Low income; Malignant neoplasm of prostate; Maryland; Mentors; Methodology; Methods; Minority Groups; Modeling; Nanotechnology; Outcome; Pharmacologic Substance; Pharmacy Schools; Pharmacy Students; Pharmacy facility; Poverty; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Training; Rotation; Rural; STEM career; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education; Scientist; Series; Specialist; Structure; Students; Support System; Talents; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Training and Education; Universities; Virus Diseases; Youth; career; cohort; college; design; disorder prevention; drug discovery; drug synthesis; experience; faculty mentor; follow-up; graduate student; hands on research; high school; high school program; improved; indexing; interest; invention; laboratory experience; low socioeconomic status; malignant breast neoplasm; minority children; minority communities; minority student; opioid abuse; outreach; peer; peer coaching; programs; role model; rural area; science teacher; skills; student training; supportive environment; targeted biomarker; teacher; tool; twelfth grade; underserved area; underserved minority; underserved students

Project Summary/Abstract: The Drug Discovery and Biomedical Research Training (DDBRT) Program is a partnership between the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) School of Pharmacy and High Schools in Somerset County ,MD, one of the most rural and underserved areas in the State of Maryland. Minority youth residing in rural areas and coming from families from a low socioeconomic status have practically no chance of experiencing the research methodology and tools used in drug discovery and biomedical research. Studies continue to show that students who demonstrate a strong talent and interest in STEM are most influenced by extracurricular and hands-on laboratory experiences. The primary goal of this program is to train and provide mentoring to minority youth in research methods of drug discovery and biomedical research to motivate their interest to pursue education and careers in the applied healthcare fields and biomedical research. Partnering with science teachers from Somerset County, MD an integrated curriculum was developed that builds on the high school biomedical program (4 courses in 10th-12th grades) and links it to drug discovery and biomedical research hands-on training modules led by an experienced pharmaceutical researchers using state-of-the-art biomedical methodology on the UMES campus. Over the course of the 2-year program, the students will experience hand-on modules designed with teacher input that span the following topics: Drug design and synthesis: hitting the epilepsy target, biomarkers: what are they?, pharmaceutical compounding, opioid abuse, community pharmacy rotation, kinesiology, promoting healthy behaviors & disease prevention, hospital pharmacy rotation, animal behavior, viral infection, prostate cancer, breast cancer, nanotechnology for targeted drug delivery, dosage form design by 3D-printing, analysis by high performance liquid chromatography and antibiotic discovery research. A mentoring program that includes faculty as well as Pharm D/graduate students who are mostly minority students aims to provide a support system to the high school students. In addition to facilitating the training, the pharmacy students will each be assigned a group of 2-4 high school students to follow up during and after the end of the program. The expected outcome is to provide continuing support after the end of the program to all our high school student cohorts with a near-peer role models thereby encouraging them to keep focused on moving forward with the STEM career plans and to provide guidance on college readiness. Overall, the expected outcome of DDBRT is a participatory research program with mentoring support designed to stimulate the student’s interest in and pursuit of pharmaceutical, health-related and biomedical research careers and ultimately enhancing the diversity of the biomedical research workforce.

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