MINORITY CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER

本申请要求更新资助#M01-RR-08198，用于其第三次 融资期。 该赠款由MBRS和GCRC共同资助。 这是一 旨在鼓励临床研究发展的创新计划 在梅哈里医学院 从1981年开始的前五年是MBRS格式， 四个学科的子项目得到资助：肿瘤学、镰状细胞 疾病、免疫学和肺病学。 这四个临床研究领域 成立了。 第二个供资期为期三年，从2004年开始， 1987年，改为GCRC格式。 这一要求是建立一个临床 研究中心的目的是提供必要的设施， 在少数民族学校做临床研究 四个已经- 已建立的领域得到维持，新的临床研究项目 在传染病，牙科，行为科学和 营养 病人护理的物质和行政结构 资源已经开始，一个特殊的支持服务计划， 为临床医生的教育和培养而建立， 研究经验少。 本申请提出稳定化 扩大现有的计划，并鼓励充分利用 设施由教师医生，社区医生，居民，和 学生 已经指定了三个需要特别发展努力的领域：癌症， 心血管疾病和艾滋病。 选择这些地区是因为 它们包括不成比例地影响黑人的医疗保健问题， 人口。 因此，重要的是梅哈里，一个历史上的黑人 医学院，解决这些问题。

This application requests renewal of grant #M01-RR-08198 for its third funding period. The grant is jointly funded by MBRS and GCRC. It is an innovative program designed to encourage development of clinical research at Meharry Medical College. The first five years, beginning in 1981, were in the MBRS format with five subprojects in four disciplines being funded: Oncology, Sickle Cell Disease, Immunology, and Pulmonology. These four clinical research areas were established. The second funding period, for three years, beginning in 1987, changed to the GCRC format. This request was to establish a clinical research center for the purpose of furnishing the facilities necessary to do clinical research in a minority school setting. The four already- established areas were maintained and new clinical research programs were proposed in Infectious Disease, Dentistry, Behavioral Sciences and Nutrition. The physical and administrative structure for the patient care resource was begun, and a program of special support services was established for the education and nurturing of the clinicians who had very little research experience. The present application proposes to stabilize and expand the existing program and to encourage full utilization of the facilities by faculty physicians, community physicians, residents, and students. Three areas for special developmental effort have been designated: cancer, cardiovascular disease, and AIDS. These areas have been chosen because they encompass health care problems that disproportionately affect black populations. Therefore, it is important for Meharry, a historically Black Medical College, to address these problems.