MBRS-SCORE Program at Alcorn State University

这是来自奥尔康大学（ASU）的第一个SCORE拨款申请，其任务是扩大亚利桑那州立大学生物医学科学的研究机会。要实现的主要目标有四个。这项任务a)研究调查人员将成功完成其试点/子项目中设定的具体目标；b)以同行评议的科学期刊论文和（或）在国家或区域科学会议上的报告的形式传播研究成果；c)增加亚利桑那州立大学MBRS- score教师向MBRS以外的机构提交的校外研究资助申请的数量；d)激励其他有研究能力的教师在他们的领域开展研究活动。该SCORE申请包括3个研究子项目和1个试点项目，涉及来自三个不同学术单位的6名亚利桑那州立大学教师，研究主题各异，例如；脑啡肽对免疫反应的调节作用营养干预缓解酒精性脂肪肝的研究铅和甲基汞对发育大鼠脑神经毒性作用机制的研究毛霉多药物表型适应的试点项目。这些多样化的研究活动将极大地促进亚利桑那州立大学的长期机构目标，即协助亚利桑那州立大学的教师开发有竞争力的研究项目，并增加亚利桑那州立大学从事生物医学研究的教师数量。我们认为，实现这些目标将有助于管理人员、教师和学生思考“教学和研究”，而不是“教学只”，因为大学在新千年中不断前进，以满足学生的需求。所有的研究活动都将使用适当的评估工具和适当的反馈机制进行评估，以阻止任何可能阻碍奥尔康州立大学研究活动成功的障碍。

This very first SCORE grant applications from Alcorn University (ASU) has developed with the task of expanding research opportunities in biomedical sciences at ASU. Four major goals are set to accomplish. This task a) Research investigators will successfully complete specific aims as set in their pilot/sub-projects; b) Disseminate research outcomes in the form of peer reviewed scientific journal papers and/or presentations at national or regional scientific meetings; c) Increase the number of extramural research grant applications submitted by the ASU-MBRS-SCORE faculty to agencies other than MBRS; d) Motivate other research capable faculty members to initiate research activities in their areas. This SCORE applications includes 3 research sub-project and one pilot project involving six ASU faculty member from three different academic units with diverse research topics such as; modulation of immune responses by enkephalins; alleviating alcohol induced fatty liver by nutritional interven tion; studying the mechanism of neurotoxicity by lead and methyl mercury in the develop rat brain; a pilot project on phenotypic multi-drug adaptation in Mucor recemosus. These diverse research activities will significantly contribute to ASU's long term institutional goal of assisting the faculty at ASU to develop competitive research programs, and to increase the number of ASU's faculty pool engaged in biomedical research. We assume that accomplishing the goals will help the administration, faculty and students to think "instruction and research" rather than "instruction only" as the university forges ahead to serve the needs of its students in the new Millennium. All research activities will be evaluated using appropriates evaluation instruments along with suitable feed-back mechanisms to thwart any hindrances that might inhibit the success of the research activities at Alcorn States University.