BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CAREERS IN WOMEN'S H

建立妇女健康跨学科研究职业中心(BIRCWH)的总主题将是培训研究人员，特别是医生/科学家，使其成为与妇女健康相关的研究的独立调查人员。该项目将是一个跨越部门障碍的机构项目，将包括发育生物学、分子遗传学、细胞生物学、行为科学、心血管科学、女性癌症相关问题、临床药理学、翻译和临床调查研究以及卫生服务研究等学科。没有申请核心实验室，因为这些设施将供教师导师所在部门的学者或机构核心设施使用。培训分为三个阶段，以培训医生/研究人员，机构资金将用于前两个阶段，BIRCWH中心的赠款将仅用于第三阶段。当学者们获得像ROI这样具有竞争力的独立同行评审资金时，该计划的成功将被决定。BIRCWH中心的影响将超越新项目发展奖获得者，加州大学洛杉矶分校的教职员工也将感受到。这将有助于招募医科学生、内务人员和研究员，从事与妇女健康有关的基础、临床和卫生服务研究。鉴于该中心的活动是多学科的，我们预计来自其他部门的教师导师将更好地理解与妇女健康有关的问题，并随后形成在加州大学洛杉矶分校建立妇女健康研究和培训中心的核心。

The overall theme of the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Center will be to train researchers, especially physicians/scientists to be independent investigators in research related to Women's Health. This program will be an institutional program crossing departmental barriers and will include the disciplines of developmental biology, molecular genetics, cell biology, behavioral sciences, cardiovascular sciences, women's cancer-related problems, clinical pharmacology, translational and clinical investigative research, as well as Health Services research. No core laboratory is being requested as these facilities will be made available for use to scholars in departments where the faculty mentors are situated or institutional core facilities. The training is divided into three phases to train physicians/investigators and institutional funds will be made available for the first two phases and BIRCWH Center grant will be utilized only for the third phase. The success of the program will be determined when the scholars obtain competitive independent peer reviewed funding like the ROI. The impact of the BIRCWH Center will extend beyond the New Program Development Awardees and will also be felt by the faculty members at UCLA. This will facilitate the recruitment of medical students, house officers and fellows into investigative basic, clinical and Health Services research related to Women's Health. In view of the multidisciplinary approach of the activities of the Center, we anticipate that faculty mentors from other departments who are a part of the mentor pool will better appreciate the problems related to Women's Health and later form a nucleus for the establishment of a Women's Health Research and Training Center at UCLA.