MBRS SCORE Program at California State University, Fresno

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校（CSU-Fresno）于2000年6月建立了MBRS-SCORE项目，以加强其生物医学研究基础设施，使其服务区域的更多客户能够从事研究工作。科罗拉多州立大学弗雷斯诺项目的具体目标是使该机构，特别是其教师，在努力建立成功和可持续的研究项目方面更具竞争力。更新后的SCORE计划目前由一个单一的资助研究项目组成，即由生物系教员进行的结核病分子微生物学研究。该建议提出了四个补充项目，以扩大该方案并协助实现其具体目标。这四个项目都是最近从两所大学学院的三个部门聘请的助理教授提交的，它们将使项目多样化，其中三个项目来自行为科学，即一个关于人类语言感知，一个关于婴儿睡眠行为，一个关于动物模式生物的选择行为，还有一个来自从事与肥胖和糖尿病有关的激素生理研究的生物学家。这四位教师都有很强的研究记录，并表现出对培养生物医学/行为研究学生的兴趣。将这些项目纳入SCORE计划将极大地有助于实现由SCORE资助部门的教师在出版、演讲和拨款提交/资助方面的具体目标，也将有助于实现扩大计划和吸引更多学生研究人员的目标。由于我们最近更新的SCORE项目的范围有限，以及当时有限的NIH研究资金，目前的项目没有获得行政资助奖励。本提案中包含一个适度的行政支持请求，以加强项目的发展和教师指导能力，并为与NIH工作人员和国家SCORE项目网络保持直接联系提供支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University, Fresno (CSU-Fresno) established an MBRS-SCORE program in June 2000 to strengthen its biomedical research infrastructure so that more clientele from its service area can engage in research careers. The specific goal of the CSU-Fresno program is to make the institution, and in particular its faculty, more competitive in their efforts to build successful and sustainable research programs. The renewed SCORE program presently consists of a single funded research project, i.e., studies on the molecular microbiology of tuberculosis, conducted by a Biology Department faculty member. This proposal presents four supplemental projects to expand the program and to assist in meeting its specific objectives. These four projects, all submitted by recently hired assistant professors from three departments in two university colleges, would diversify the program with three projects from the behavioral sciences, i.e. one on human speech perception, one on infant sleep behavior, and one on choice behavior in animal model organisms, and a fourth from a biologist conducting physiological studies on hormones related to obesity and diabetes. Each of these four faculty members has a strong research record and a demonstrated interest in educating biomedical/behavioral research students. Inclusion of these projects in the SCORE program would greatly assist in meeting the specific objectives of elevated targets for publication, presentation, and grant submission/funding by faculty members in departments with SCORE funding and would also help meet objectives for broadening the program and attracting larger numbers of student researchers. With the limited scope of our recently renewed SCORE program and the limited NIH research funding available at the time, the current program received no administrative funding award. A modest request for administrative support is included in this proposal to strengthen the development and faculty mentoring capabilities of the program and to provide support for maintaining direct contact with NIH staff and the national network of SCORE programs.