UPR-MHIRT in Infectious Disease and Molecular Biology

UPR-MHIRT 在传染病和分子生物学中的应用

• 批准号: 7092083
• 负责人: GEORGE V HILLYER
• 金额: $ 18.25万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-30 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7092083
• 关键词: UPR; MHIRT; Infectious; Disease; Molecular

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is in response to RFA-MD-04-004 from the National Center on Minority Health and Health disparities (NCMHD) and the Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the NIH for a University of Puerto Rico (UPR) Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Program in Infectious Diseases and Molecular Biology. This competing renewal application program will include 10 research trainees, 75 % of which will be undergraduates, with the rest being doctoral and/or medical students or resident fellows. The UPR is the premier institution of higher learning for minority Hispanic students in the United States, and is first in the nation in graduating Hispanic Ph.Ds. The theme is around the broad area of international health problems focusing on molecular and immunological aspects of tropical medicine and parasitology, which are health problems that affect the populations of developing countries and of health disparities populations. This includes diseases of the poor and the disadvantaged as is human fascioliasis, which is a newly emerging disease, malaria, and HIV. Moreover, important structure-function studies of novel hemoglobins, melanosome biogenesis in human Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome, and regenerative processes in echinoderms as models for vertebrates, round out a broad range of research activities in molecular and developmental biology. The European and Canadian performance sites are of those currently or prospectively collaborating with faculty at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences, Rio Piedras, and Mayaguez campuses which are the three doctoral/research campuses of the UPR system. These foreign sites include laboratories in Salamanca, Valencia, & Granada in Spain; INSERM in Paris, France; Edinburgh in the UK; Montreal, Canada; and Sydney, Australia. Training periods of 10-12 weeks or a semester with these outstanding investigators are contemplated.

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是对波多黎各大学（UPR）传染病和分子生物学少数民族健康和健康差异国际研究培训（MHIRT）项目的RFA-MD-04-004的回应，RFA-MD-04-004来自国家少数民族健康和健康差异中心（ncmhhd）和美国国立卫生研究院福格蒂国际中心（FIC）。这个竞争性的续期申请项目将包括10名研究实习生，其中75%将是本科生，其余是博士和/或医学院学生或住院研究员。普遍定期审议是美国为西班牙裔少数民族学生提供高等教育的首要机构，也是西班牙裔博士毕业人数最多的国家。主题是围绕国际卫生问题的广泛领域，重点是热带医学和寄生虫学的分子和免疫学方面，这些是影响发展中国家人口和健康差距人口的卫生问题。这包括穷人和弱势群体的疾病，如新出现的人类片吸虫病、疟疾和艾滋病毒。此外，新型血红蛋白的重要结构-功能研究，人类Hermansky Pudlak综合征的黑素体生物发生，以及棘皮动物的再生过程作为脊椎动物的模型，在分子和发育生物学领域开展了广泛的研究活动。欧洲和加拿大的表演场地是目前或未来与波多黎各医学大学、里约热内卢Piedras和Mayaguez校区的教师合作的，这三个校区是普遍定期审议系统的三个博士/研究校区。这些国外基地包括西班牙萨拉曼卡、瓦伦西亚和格拉纳达的实验室；法国巴黎INSERM；英国的爱丁堡；加拿大蒙特利尔;以及澳大利亚的悉尼。考虑与这些杰出的调查人员进行10-12周或一个学期的培训。