UTSA MBRS SCORE PROGRAM

UTSA MBRS SCORE计划旨在为创新的尖端生物医学研究项目提供支持，并提高教师和机构的研究能力。UTSA SCORE计划的总体目标是提高教师的研究生产力和竞争力，并显著增加从事和追求生物医学研究事业的少数民族教师和学生的数量。拟议的研究项目将为MBRS教师和学生提供一个积极参与令人兴奋和具有挑战性的生物医学研究的环境。UTSA已经证明了对少数民族教师的雇用和发展的承诺。此外，UTSA招收了大量的，越来越多的少数族裔学生（主要是西班牙裔7,797人，占42.4%），并在全国排名前五的西班牙裔教育大学之一开发了一些积极的，联邦政府支持的少数族裔增强计划。此外，在授予西班牙裔美国人生命科学本科学位的数量上，UTSA在全国排名第二。继续资助UTSA MBRS计划将使UTSA能够发展和支持21个基础生物医学研究实验室，为研究活动提供必要的支持，并为代表性不足的本科生和研究生少数民族学生提供优秀的指导和培训机会。这项研究机会将得到许多现有的、共享的机构和部门资源的支持。MBRS SCORE研究将在今年春天（1998年）开放的新生物科学大楼的最先进的研究实验室中进行。这个价值1720万美元，三层楼，62000平方英尺的研究设施已经完全致力于研究和研究培训。MBRS SCORE项目和主要研究人员包括：1)E. Barea-Rodriguez博士“学习和LTP中的Agrin和Integrin表达”；2) Dr. A. Cassill Derrick《新奇诱导的海马LTP促进作用》；5) Dr. M. Gdovin“发育中的两栖动物呼吸神经生物学”；6) Dr. W. Gorski“基于壳聚糖支架的酶电极”；7) Dr. L. Haro“45 kDa人类生长激素变异的生物学意义”；8) H. Heidner博士“蚊子Furin内源性蛋白酶的表征”；Dr. R. Lebaron“人类p68 （BIG-H3）蛋白在角膜中的功能特性”；1) Dr. A. Martinez“ApoE亚型在转基因小鼠ad样病理发展中的作用”；12) Dr. J. McClusky，“生物稳定性增强聚氨酯的发展”；13) G. Negrete博士“构象促进BPDE- DNA加合物降解”；14) Dr. R. Renthal“膜蛋白折叠”；15) A. Tsin博士“眼睛中的11-顺式视黄酯水解酶”；16) Dr. J. Walmsley“鸟嘌呤和腺嘌呤核苷酸金属介导的分子聚集体”；17) E. Wheeler博士“肌肉发育与Trk B受体异常表达”；媒体接触与心理和身体健康。

The UTSA MBRS SCORE Program is designed to provide support for innovative, cutting-edge biomedical research projects and to enhance the research capabilities of the faculty and institution. The overall goals of the UTSA SCORE Program are to increase the research productivity and competitiveness of the faculty as well as significantly increase the number of minority faculty and students engaged in and pursuing biomedical research careers. The proposed research projects will provide an environment where MBRS faculty and students can actively engage in exciting and challenging biomedical research. UTSA has a proven commitment to the hiring and advancement of minority faculty. Moreover, UTSA enrolls a large, growing number of under-represented minority students (primarily Hispanic 7,797 or 42.4%), and has developed a number of active, federally-supported minority enhancement programs in one of the nation's top five Hispanic education universities. In addition, the UTSA is ranked second in the nation in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded to Hispanics in the Life Sciences. Continued funding of the UTSA MBRS Program will allow UTSA to develop and support 21 basic biomedical research laboratories, providing essential support for research activities, and excellent mentoring and training opportunities for under-represented undergraduate and graduate minority students. This research opportunities will be supported by many existing, shared institutional and divisional resources. MBRS SCORE research will be conducted in state-of-the-art research laboratories in the new Biosciences Building which opened this past Spring (98). This $17.2 million dollar, 3-story, 62,000 square feet research facility has been fully dedicated to research and research training. MBRS SCORE Projects and Principal Investigators include the following: 1) Dr. E. Barea-Rodriguez "Agrin and Integrin Expression in Learning and LTP"; 2) Dr. A. Cassill Derrick "Novelty-Induced Facilitation of Hippocampal LTP; 5) Dr. M. Gdovin "Neurobiology of Respiration in the Developing Amphibian"; 6) Dr. W. Gorski "Enzyme Electrodes Based on Chitosan Scaffolding"; 7) Dr. L. Haro "Biological Significance of 45 kDa Human Growth Hormone Variant"; 8) Dr. H. Heidner "Characterization of the Mosquito Furin Endoprotease"; Dr. R. Lebaron "Functional Properties of Human p68 (BIG-H3) Protein in Cornea"; 1) Dr. A. Martinez "Role of ApoE Isoforms in Development of AD-Like Pathology in Transgenic Mice"; 12) Dr. J. McClusky "Development of Polyurethanes with Enhanced Biostability; 13) Dr. G. Negrete "Conformationally Promoted Degradation of BPDE- DNA Adducts"; 14) Dr. R. Renthal "Membrane Protein Folding"; 15) Dr. A. Tsin "11-cis Retinyl Ester Hydrolase in the Eye"; 16) Dr. J. Walmsley "Metal-Mediated Molecular Aggregates of Guanine and Adenine Nucleotides"; 17) Dr. E. Wheeler "Developing Muscle and Aberrant Trk B Receptor Expression"; Media Exposure and Psychological and Physical Well-being.