Tropical Medicine Research Centers: TMRC Coordinating Center

项目摘要/摘要 国家过敏和传染病研究所(NIAID)资助的热带医学研究中心 (TMRC)计划支持被忽视的热带病(NTD)研究，专门用于开发 预防和治疗战略，同时增加国家能力、科学合作、研究 初级和早期调查人员的机会，以及数据和标本共享。TMRC计划 在资助科学成果研究项目方面有着悠久的历史，但加强了合作， TMRC内外的协调和信息共享将增加科学价值 以及在这些研究项目中开发的科学知识和资源对公共卫生的影响。 因此，作为TMRC协调中心(CC)，RTI International将提供行政、 为TMRC计划提供通信、后勤和运营支持，以实现以下具体目标 目标：(1)增强外部利益相关者对TMRC计划专业知识的认识并与其结盟 通过在TMRC计划和更广泛的NTD研究社区之间提供渠道来提供资源；(2) 通过提供集中的信息，增强TMRC计划的协作和协调的科学影响 行政、通信、后勤和业务支持；(3)增加科学TMRC的效用 资源，包括在TMRC方案内收集的数据和标本，通过增加数据 协调、开发和支持虚拟储存库；以及(4)支持新一代 通过实施和管理TMRC计划机会基金，为研究人员和国内科学家提供支持。 成功实现这些目标将包括创新地实施技术传播 以及通过TMRC计划网站展示的协作工具，包括访问关键计划 虚拟资源，如虚拟存储库、机会基金网关、知识和 指导网络，以促进知识转移和建立指导关系。作为TMRC CC， 我们将利用我们团队的广泛经验领导、管理和提供管理和数据以及 作为CC向众多复杂的研究联盟提供标本共享支持。该团队将使用现有的 与关键利益相关者的关系，易于调整的既定程序和流程，以及 成熟的信息技术，作为TMRC CC快速提升，并帮助推进工作 为支持TMRC计划目标而完成。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded Tropical Medicine Research Center (TMRC) Program supports neglected tropical disease (NTD) research specifically for the development of prevention and therapeutic strategies while increasing in-country capacity, scientific collaboration, research opportunities for junior and early-stage investigators, and data and specimen sharing. The TMRC Program has a long history of funding scientifically productive research projects, but enhanced collaboration, coordination, and information sharing within and external to the TMRCs would increase the scientific value and public health impact of the scientific knowledge and resources developed within these research projects. Accordingly, as the TMRC Coordinating Center (CC), RTI International will provide administrative, communication, logistical, and operational support to the TMRC Program to achieve the following specific aims: (1) augment external stakeholder awareness of and alliance with TMRC Program expertise and resources by providing a conduit between the TMRC Program and the broader NTD research community; (2) enhance the TMRC Program’s collaborative and coordinated scientific impact by providing centralized administrative, communications, logistical, and operational support; (3) increase the utility of scientific TMRC resources, including data and specimens collected within the TMRC Program, by increasing data harmonization and developing and supporting a virtual repository; and (4) support the next generation of investigators and in-country scientists by implementing and managing the TMRC Program Opportunity Fund. Successful completion of these aims will include innovative implementation of technological communication and collaboration tools through a TMRC Program web presence that includes access to critical Program virtual resources, such as the virtual repository, the Opportunity Fund Gateway, and a Knowledge and Mentoring Network, to facilitate knowledge transfer and establish mentoring relationships. As the TMRC CC, we will use our team’s broad experience leading, managing, and providing administrative and data and specimen sharing support as the CC to numerous complex research consortiums. The team will use existing relationships with key stakeholders, established procedures and processes that can be easily adapted, and proven informatics technology to ramp up quickly as the TMRC CC and help advance the work being completed in support of the TMRC Program objective.