Cal State LA Biomedical PREP

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学洛杉矶（加州州立大学洛杉矶分校），少数民族机构提供MS作为其最高学位，并在发展少数民族美国人在生物医学科学的职业生涯的悠久传统，建议更新其成功的生物医学学士后研究教育计划（BIOMED PREP）。拟议和扩大的计划旨在保持在生物医学人力资本管道有能力的少数民族个人的人才，否则他们的能力可能会失去生物医学研究。其结果是，该计划的参与者将随后进入研究生课程，导致在主要研究机构的博士学位。在第一个补助金期间，超过80%的参与学士学位后的学生继续在全国顶级机构的生物医学或行为博士课程。我们提出的更新项目将以两种重要的方式扩大：我们将把少数民族PREP学者的数量从目前的每年6人增加到12人，并与两个主要的生物医学研究机构合作，南加州大学和希望之城/贝克曼 研究所，将为我们的学生提供额外的研究培训和教育网站。12名PREP学者将被加州州立大学洛杉矶分校聘为技术人员，同时通过旨在提高他们的研究技能的学士后课程进行职业发展;提高他们在生物医学科学方面的学术背景;将他们融入更广泛的南加州生物医学研究社区;让他们接触到广泛的生物医学科学和科学家;并促进他们直接进入博士课程或攻读博士学位的硕士课程;并为他们在生物医学科学领域的成功研究生涯奠定基础。 我们的目标是增加少数民族博士水平的生物医学和行为科学家的数量， 人们期望，许多人将被激励去解决那些不成比例地影响少数民族人口并导致美国人健康差异的问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a minority institution offering the MS as its highest degree, and with a long tradition of success in developing the careers of minority Americans in the biomedical sciences, proposes to renew its successful Biomedical Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (BIOMED PREP). The proposed and expanded program seeks to keep in the biomedical human capital pipeline the talents of capable minority individuals whose abilities might otherwise be lost to biomedical research. The result is that the participants in this program will subsequently enter graduate programs leading to the PhD at major research institutions. In the first grant period, over 80% of participating post-baccalaureate students proceeded to biomedical or behavioral PhD programs at top institutions nationwide. The project we propose for renewal is expanded in two significant ways: we will increase the number of minority PREP Scholars from the current six to 12 per year, and by partnering with two major biomedical research institutions, the University of Southern California and The City of Hope/Beckman Research Institute, will provide additional research training and education sites for our students. The 12 PREP Scholars will be employed as technicians by Cal State LA while undergoing career advancement through a post-baccalaureate program designed to increase their research skills; enhance their academic background in the biomedical sciences; integrate them into the broader Southern California biomedical research community; expose them to a broad range of biomedical sciences and scientists; and enhance their entry directly into PhD programs, or to MS programs en route to the PhD; and establish the foundation for their successful research careers in the biomedical sciences. We aim to increase the number of minority PhD-level biomedical and behavioral scientists, with the expectation that many will be motivated to work on those problems that disproportionately affect minority populations and have resulted in health disparities among Americans.