Morehouse School of Medicine Center for Excellence Rese*

描述(由申请人提供)：莫尔豪斯医学院(MSM)的COE研究捐赠基金的长期目标是以两种关键方式利用支持：(1)将研究基础设施提高到目前给予研究密集型学术机构的能力和研究竞争力的水平，以及(2)随着时间的推移，利用这些资金获得额外的外部和私人支持。为了实现这些目标，MSM建议使用所要求的资金来加强在癌症、艾滋病毒/艾滋病、糖尿病、精神健康方面的研究能力，支持学生和教职员工在研究生培训计划中的研究努力，并在上述研究领域帮助招募和留住少数族裔科学家。在短短20年内，MSM已经建立了一个强大的研究企业的基本框架，正如神经科学研究所、心血管研究所、临床研究中心和国家初级保健和预防研究中心的创建所表明的那样。除了这些研究所和中心，MSM还建立了空间医学项目，一个合作的生殖科学研究中心，并实施了中风中心和一个关于健康差距的综合中心的计划，该中心将收集和统一旨在消除健康状况差距的研究。这些正在进行的研究工作是在一个充满活力和令人兴奋的舞台上进行的，包括扩大班级规模，开发专注于临床研究的新研究生课程，以补充现有的研究生课程，以及医学教育、公共卫生和生物医学课程的逐步发展。这项建议的具体目标是：(1)利用捐赠基金作为持续的支持来源，招募和留住知名学者和中层研究人员；(2)通过加强新的和现有的研究领域，扩大和加强能力建设；(3)支持以研究为重点的研究生课程，使其在临床研究中获得公共卫生硕士、博士和硕士学位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Morehouse School of Medicine's (MSM) long range goal for the COE Research Endowment is to utilize the support in two key ways: (1) to enhance the research infrastructure to the level of increased capacity and research competitiveness presently accorded to research intensive academic institutions and (2) to leverage these funds, over time, to acquire additional extramural and private support. To achieve these goals, MSM proposes to use the requested funds to strengthen research capacity in cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, mental health, to support the research endeavors of students and faculty in graduate training programs and to assist in the recruitment and retention of minority scientists in the aforementioned research areas. In just two decades, MSM has established a basic framework for a robust research enterprise as noted by the creation of the Neuroscience Institute, the Cardiovascular Research Institute, the Clinical Research Center, and the National Center for Primary Care and the Prevention Research Center. In addition to these institutes and centers, MSM has established programs in space medicine, a cooperative reproductive science research center, and implemented plans for a stroke center as well as a comprehensive center on health disparities that will capture and unify research aimed at eliminating gaps in health status. These ongoing research efforts are occurring in a dynamic and exciting arena of class size expansion, the development of a new graduate program focused on clinical research that supplements the existing graduate programs and the progressive developments in the medical education, public health and biomedical science programs. The specific aims for this proposal are: (1) to recruit and retain eminent scholars and mid-level investigators using endowment funds as a continuous source of support, (2) to expand and strengthen capacity building with the enhancement of new and existent research areas, and (3) to support research focused graduate programs leading to the MPH, PhD and MS in clinical research.