The Johns Hopkins Neuroscience Scholars Program (JHNSP)

约翰·霍普金斯大学神经科学学者计划 (JHNSP)

• 批准号: 10448383
• 负责人: AMANDA MARIA BROWN
• 金额: $ 26.17万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10448383
• 关键词: Academic Training; Academy; Award; Baltimore; Basic Science; Biomedical Engineering; Brain; Career Choice; Collaborations; Competence; Data; Development; Disabled Persons; Discrimination; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Engineering; Environment; Ethnic group; Exposure to; Face; Faculty; Family; Fright; Goals; Healthcare Systems; Individual; Interdisciplinary Study; Intervention; Leadership; Literature; Mathematics; Measures; Mentors; Modeling; Molecular; Motivation; NCI Scholars Program; Neurons; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Persons; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Race; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Resources; Schools; Science; Scientist; Secondary Schools; Self Efficacy; Social Sciences; Structure; Students; Talents; Technology; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Students; Woman; Work; career; career development; college; critical period; deaf; disability; experience; frontier; hands on research; hard of hearing; hearing impairment; high school; innovation; nervous system disorder; new technology; professor; programs; role model; satisfaction; skill acquisition; skills; social capital; success; tool; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

Neurological disorders will represent an increasing burden on the US health care system. Creative ideas, innovative approaches using classic basic research methods, as well as cutting-edge technologies are needed to advance our understanding of the intricate regulatory networks governing brain function in normal and disease states. For this work, we need to harness the unique capacities of all citizens. By ignoring the potential assets that individuals from UR groups can bring to the table, we stall the progress of discovery. We postulate that students from underrepresented backgrounds and those who are D/HH having the talent to succeed and do innovative leading-edge research need only exposure, opportunity, resources, social capital and training. The specific aim of this proposal is: to significantly increase the number of undergraduate students from underrepresented and deaf/hard-of-hearing backgrounds who pursue PhDs or MD-PhDs in the neurosciences. Hypothesis: Students from underrepresented minority backgrounds (URM) or who are deaf/hard-of-hearing (D/HH) and who possess high motivation and academic ability to pursue a career in the neurosciences and participate early in their careers in hands-on research, receive intensive mentoring, develop researcher competency skills, and implement skills critical for professional career development, will pursue and succeed at a significantly higher rate, training in the neurosciences at the PhD or MD-PhD level. This aim will be accomplished through the proposed Johns Hopkins Neuroscience Scholars Program (JHNSP). The program will leverage the success of an existing intervention, Project Pipeline Baltimore, which identifies and nurtures students at the high school level who have demonstrated a passion for science and developed a special appreciation for neuroscience through their secondary education and mentored hands-on research experiences. These students, who are now in or entering college, will be exposed over the course of their undergraduate studies to high quality research, mentoring, structured skills development workshops, and leadership and professional development training. During the third year of undergraduate studies, trainees will be exposed to topics and experiences that will provide them with a preview of what the transition from PhD or MD-PhD entails and what adjustments they would have to make and what skills they will need to refine. Hence, JHNSP will facilitate two critical transition periods: from high school to college, and from college to graduate school. In combination with our own concrete experiences, data suggesting that many of the program components described have positive impact on trainee self-efficacy, we believe JHNSP will have a measureable effect on advancing the careers of URM and D/HH undergraduate trainees in graduate programs and increasing their retention and career path satisfaction once they arrive. We believe that the proposed program can be a model of program coordination, integration and collaboration leading to increased retention of viable trainees in the neuroscience pipeline.

神经系统疾病将成为美国医疗保健系统日益沉重的负担。创意 思想，使用经典基础研究方法的创新方法，以及尖端技术， 需要推进我们对正常大脑功能复杂调控网络的理解， 和疾病状态。为了这项工作，我们需要利用所有公民的独特能力。通过忽略 如果我们不考虑来自UR团体的个人可以带来的潜在资产，我们就会拖延发现的进展。我们 假设来自代表性不足背景的学生和D/HH的学生有天赋， 成功地进行创新前沿研究只需要曝光、机会、资源、社会资本 和培训及其有效这一建议的具体目标是：大幅增加本科生数量 来自代表性不足和聋人/听力障碍背景的学生，他们正在攻读博士学位或MD-PhD 在神经科学中。假设：来自代表性不足的少数民族背景（URM）的学生或 聋人/重听（D/HH），并具有很高的动机和学术能力，在 神经科学，并在他们的职业生涯早期参与动手研究，接受密集的指导，发展 研究人员的能力技能，并实施技能的专业职业发展的关键，将追求和 成功率明显更高，在博士或MD-PhD水平的神经科学培训。这一目标将 通过拟议的约翰霍普金斯神经科学学者计划（JHNSP）完成。的 该计划将利用现有干预措施的成功，项目管道巴尔的摩，其中确定和 培养学生在高中阶段谁表现出对科学的热情，并制定了一个 通过他们的中学教育和指导动手研究对神经科学的特别赞赏 经验这些学生，谁是现在或进入大学，将暴露在他们的过程中， 本科学习到高质量的研究，指导，结构化的技能发展研讨会，以及 领导才能和专业发展培训。在本科学习的第三年，学员将 接触到的主题和经验，将为他们提供什么是从博士过渡预览或 MD-PhD需要什么，他们将不得不做出什么调整，他们将需要完善什么技能。因此，我们认为， JHNSP将促进两个关键的过渡时期：从高中到大学，从大学到毕业 学校结合我们自己的具体经验，有数据表明， 所描述的成分对受训者自我效能感有积极的影响，我们相信JHNSP会有一个 对促进URM和D/HH本科学员在研究生课程中的职业生涯的可衡量的影响 并在他们到达后提高他们的保留率和职业道路满意度。我们相信建议的 计划可以是计划协调、整合和协作的典范，从而提高保留率 神经科学管道中的可行受训者。