BUILDING INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CAREERS IN WOMEN'S H

建立妇女健康跨学科研究职业中心的总主题是培训研究人员，特别是医生/科学家，使他们成为与妇女健康有关的研究的独立调查员。 该计划将是一个跨越部门障碍的机构计划，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，转化和临床调查研究以及卫生服务研究等学科。 没有核心实验室被要求，因为这些设施将提供给使用的教师导师所在的部门或机构的核心设施的学者。培训分为三个阶段，以培训医生/调查员，机构资金将用于前两个阶段，BIRCWH中心赠款将仅用于第三阶段。 该计划的成功将取决于当学者获得竞争力的独立同行评审的资金，如投资回报率。BIRCWH中心的影响将超越新项目开发获奖者，也将被加州大学洛杉矶分校的教职员工所感受到。 这将有助于招聘医科学生、住院医生和研究员从事与妇女健康有关的基础、临床和保健服务调查研究。考虑到该中心活动的多学科方法，我们预计来自其他系的导师将更好地理解与妇女健康有关的问题，并在以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.