Endowment Disparities Research Meharry Medical College

捐赠差异研究 梅哈里医学院

• 批准号: 6803946
• 负责人: JOHN E MAUPIN
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-30 至 2006-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6803946
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; education cost /financing; education evaluation /planning; health disparity; health education; health science research potential; health services research tag; minority health professional; minority institution research support

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As we begin a new millennium, the nation is challenged by the persistent need to eliminate major health status disparities between different segments of the population. Investment in biomedical research has brought the elimination of some devastating diseases, but health disparities remain. Meharry Medical College's history and vision for the future place it in the forefront of efforts to ameliorate health status disparities affecting the African American community and other under-represented minorities. Meharry's research strategic plan places emphasis on strategies designed to foster an increase in health related research and competitiveness of investigators through faculty development and enhancement of the research infrastructure at the College. The four major goals of the College's research strategic plan are: 1) Enhance the competitive stature of the research enterprise achieving a middle third ranking in NIH funding; 2) Expand the cadre of well-trained basic science and clinical science minority investigators, in particular African-American investigators; 3) Expand research capacity along with the development of signature areas of interdisciplinary inquiry, and 4) Augment and strengthen the institutional research infrastructure. This proposal seeks endowment funds in support of the College's efforts to: advance the scientific understanding of health disparities; develop new or improved approaches to control or prevent diseases and disabilities that contribute to health disparities; and, develop culturally sensitive evidence-based approaches to treat diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect African-Americans. The complementary specific aims of this proposal are: 1) Establish an Endowed Professorship in Reproductive Biology to enhance the recruitment of a "magnet scientist" to lead the development and advancement of Meharry's Center for Research in Reproduction; 2) Establish an Endowed Professorship in Oral Biology to enhance the recruitment of a "magnet scientist" to lead the development and advancement of the Center for Minority Oral Health Disparities Center at Meharry Medical College; 3) Establish an Endowed Program and a Chair in Cell and Molecular Biology to recruit a "magnet scientist" to lead the establishment of a department of Cell, Developmental and Molecular Biology; and 4) Establish an endowed intramural research program to allow junior faculty and post-docs to obtain research data for individual initiated research grant submissions.

描述(由申请人提供)： 随着我们进入新的千年，这个国家面临着长期需要消除不同人口群体之间的主要健康状况差距的挑战。对生物医学研究的投资已经消除了一些毁灭性的疾病，但健康差距依然存在。梅哈里医学院的历史和对未来的展望使其在努力改善影响非裔美国人社区和其他代表性不足的少数族裔的健康状况差距方面走在了前列。Meharry的研究战略计划强调旨在通过教师发展和加强学院研究基础设施来促进与健康相关的研究的增加和调查人员的竞争力的战略。学院研究战略计划的四个主要目标是：1)提高研究企业的竞争力，在NIH的资助中排名中三；2)扩大训练有素的基础科学和临床科学少数族裔研究人员的队伍，特别是非裔美国人的研究人员；3)随着跨学科研究标志性领域的发展，扩大研究能力；以及4)扩大和加强机构研究基础设施。这项提案寻求捐赠资金，以支持学院的努力：促进对健康差距的科学理解；开发新的或改进的方法来控制或预防导致健康差异的疾病和残疾；以及开发具有文化敏感性的循证方法来治疗对非裔美国人影响不成比例的疾病和状况。这项建议的补充具体目标是：1)设立生殖生物学捐赠教授职位，以加强招聘一名“磁性科学家”，以领导Meharry生殖研究中心的发展和进步；2)设立口腔生物学捐赠教授职位，以加强招聘一名“磁性科学家”，以领导Meharry医学院少数族裔口腔健康差距中心的发展和进步；3)设立一项捐赠计划和一个细胞和分子生物学教席，以招募一名“磁性科学家”，领导建立细胞、发育和分子生物学系；以及4)建立一个捐赠的校内研究计划，允许初级教师和博士后为个人发起的研究拨款申请获得研究数据。