Morehouse School of Medicine Center of Excellence

莫尔豪斯医学院（MSM）是一个历史悠久的黑人机构，成立于1975年，招收和培训少数民族和其他学生作为医生，生物医学科学家和公共卫生专业人员，致力于服务不足的初级卫生保健需求。在其相对较短的历史中，MSM作为一所规模较小的私立医学院，已经成为医学教育的领导者，在培养少数民族医生和科学家方面取得了特别成功。随着男男性接触者在其发展中的成熟和进入21'世纪，它准备提供同样的奉献精神，以卓越和领导研究的重点是健康差距蹂躏少数民族人口，因为它已经表现在临床护理和教育领域。该机构战略计划的总体研究目标是保持和加强高质量的研究环境，促进对不成比例地影响服务不足人口的疾病进行研究。虽然MSM已经建立了一个相对强大的研究基础设施，其规模和年龄的机构，预计这些资产将随着时间的推移贬值和/或变得过时。一项研究捐赠奖将允许男男性行为者和其他这类为少数群体服务的机构建立机制，通过这些机制，他们可以开始建立捐赠基金和吸引私人来源，而不是几乎完全依赖联邦资金。该提案的具体目标是：1）通过提供永久资源来支持独立的研究领域，以留住现有的杰出学者; 2）招募有能力担任健康差异研究项目（特别是癌症研究）主任的“磁铁”研究人员; 3）通过确保持续的资金来源，为研究基础设施提供所需的资源，以保持和加强研究企业的增长和活力; 4）为发展研究生课程提供支持（博士学位）和公共卫生硕士）的最高质量，将补充男男性接触者的各种研究重点。

The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is a historically black institution founded in 1975 to recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists and public health professionals committed to the primary health care needs of the underserved. In its comparatively brief history MSM as s private medical school of small size has already distinguished itself as a leader in medical education with particular success in training minority physicians and scientists. As MSM has matured in its development and moves into the 21' century, it is prepared to provide the same dedication to excellence and leadership in research focused on health disparities ravaging minority populations as it has manifested in the areas of clinical care and education. The overall research goal of the institution's strategic plan is to maintain and strengthen a high quality research environment that fosters conducting research on diseases that disproportionately affect underserved populations. Although MSM has established a relatively robust research infrastructure for an institution of its size and age, it is anticipated that these assets will depreciate and/or become obsolete over time. A research endowment award will allow MSM and other such minority- serving institutions to establish mechanisms by which they can began building endowments and attracting private sources rather than a near total reliance on federal funding. The specific aims of this proposal are: 1) to retain existing preeminent scholars by providing a perpetual resource for support of discrete areas of investigation; 2) to recruit "magnet" investigators) who are capable of serving as Directors of research programs focused on health disparities, particularly cancer research; 3) to maintain and enhance the growth and vitality of the research enterprise by securing a continuous source of funds that will provide resources necessary to support the research infrastructure and 4) to provide support toward developing graduate programs (Ph.D. and MPH) of the highest quality that will complement MSM's various foci of research.