MBRS RISE at the UPR Medical Sciences Campus

描述（由申请人提供）：普遍定期审议MSC的MBRS RISE项目，目前已进入支持的第七个年头，请求支持继续扩大该项目的整体影响和价值。其总体目标是增加从事生物医学和行为研究的代表性不足的少数民族的数量，重点是本科生（UG）和研究生(G)学生参与者的发展，使他们能够更好地竞争未来的生物医学研究人员。我们提出了三个活动：发展活动1和2 -学生参与全年和夏季研究计划和发展活动3：跨学科生物医学研究系列研讨会（IBRSS）。以下为每项个人发展活动制定的目标和宗旨构成了MSC MBRS RISE项目的计划目标和宗旨。项目目标1：提高对生物医学研究职业、研究技能和攻读生物医学科学高级学位的UG RISE学生人数的兴趣。我们每年将从普遍定期审议制度中招收10名本科生和15名暑期学生参加理学硕士的研究项目。我们的目标是提高RISE UG参与者在生物医学科学、负责任的研究行为（RCR）原则、科学交流的基础知识以及如何成功申请研究生院方面的知识。我们的目标是增加UG和G RISE参与者的数量，通过提供旅行资金和UG学生在完成学士学位后进入生物医学科学研究生课程的人数，从29%增加到50%，从而增加UG和G RISE参与者在国内或国际科学会议上展示他们的研究成果，与其他科学家建立联系，并在美国大陆从事短期研究经验。我们的计划目标#2是：增加对研究事业，科学技能和竞争力的兴趣，以及完成博士学位并晋升到有竞争力的博士后职位的G RISE学生参与者的数量。我们的目标是通过提供财政支持和发展活动来培养35名G学生，通过提供研究研讨会，科学写作讲习班和RCR指导，提高G参与者在生物医学科学，RCR原则，科学传播以及如何成为成功的研究人员方面的知识，提高学生的技能和竞争力。我们建议增加参加国家或国际科学会议的G学生的数量，以提高他们的科学交流和网络技能，或通过提供资金参加这些会议或短期培训经验的旅行或参与波多黎各岛以外的研究经验，并提高G学生的研究生产力，即在同行评审期刊的平均出版物数量和G的数量每年增加10%升入博士后的学生占60% - 80%。规划目标3：通过建立一个充满活力的跨学科生物医学研究研讨会系列（IBRSS），加强ubr - msc的研究环境，并使RISE导师、UG和G学生接触到顶级生物医学研究人员。我们的目标是：通过与来自波多黎各以外主要研究实验室的富有成效的生物医学科学家协调至少八次来自不同学科的年度研讨会报告，增加UPR-MSC教师，UG和G学生对生物医学科学跨学科领域最先进的前沿知识的接触；通过鼓励在UPR-MSC G和UG学生和访问科学家之间就生物医学科学的不同跨学科研究主题进行公开讨论，促进UPR-MSC教师和富有成效的生物医学科学家之间建立协会和网络；通过向学生提供特邀演讲者发表的科学文章，提高学生的理解力和批判性思维能力；通过要求G级学生在系列研讨会中做简短的演讲，促进他们与作者讨论研究成果，并提高他们的口头表达能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MBRS RISE Program at the UPR MSC, currently in its seventh year of support, requests support to continue to expand the overall impact and value of the program. Its overall goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities engaged in biomedical and behavioral research, focusing on the development of its undergraduate (UG) and graduate (G) student participants, so they can better compete as future biomedical researchers. We propose three Activities: Developmental Activities 1 & 2 - Student Participation in Year Round and Summer Research Programs and Developmental Activity 3: Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Seminar Series (IBRSS). The following goals and objectives, established for each individual developmental activity, constitute the programmatic goals and objectives of the MSC MBRS RISE program. Programmatic Goal 1: Increase the interest in biomedical research careers, research skills and number of science UG RISE student participants that pursue advanced degrees in biomedical sciences. We will recruit 10 undergraduate science students/year and 15 summer students/year from the UPR System into research projects at the MSC. We aim to improve the knowledge of the RISE UG participants in biomedical sciences, the principles of Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR), the basics of scientific communication and how to successfully apply to Graduate schools. We aim to increase the number of UG and G RISE participants that travel to present their research studies and network with other scientists at national or international scientific meetings and engage in short research experiences in mainland US by providing travel funds and the number of UG students that enter graduate programs in the biomedical sciences after finishing their BS degree from 29 to 50%. Our Programmatic Goal #2 is: Increase the interest in research careers, scientific skills and competitiveness and the number of G RISE student participants that complete a Ph.D. degree and advance to competitive postdoctoral positions. We aim to develop 35 G students by providing financial support and developmental activities that will increase students' skills and competitiveness by improving the knowledge of the G participants in biomedical sciences, the principles of RCR, scientific communication and how to become successful researchers by offering research seminars, scientific writing workshops and instruction on RCR. We propose to increase the number of G students that present at national or international scientific meetings to enhance their scientific communication and networking skills or participate in research experiences outside of the island of Puerto Rico by providing funds for travel to these meetings or for short training experiences and the research productivity of the G students in terms of a 10% increase per year in the average number of publications at peer-reviewed journals and the number of G students who advance to post-doctoral positions from 60% to 80%. Programmatic Goal 3: To enhance the research environment at the UPR-MSC and expose RISE mentors, UG and G students to top biomedical researchers by the establishment of a dynamic Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Seminar Series (IBRSS). Our objectives are: To increase the exposure of UPR-MSC faculty, UG and G students to state-of-the-art, forefront knowledge in interdisciplinary areas of biomedical sciences by coordinating at least eight annual seminar presentations from different disciplines, with productive biomedical scientists from major research laboratories outside of Puerto Rico; To promote the establishment of associations and networking between UPR-MSC faculty and productive biomedical scientists by stimulating the open discussion of diverse, interdisciplinary research topics in biomedical sciences between UPR-MSC G and UG students and visiting scientists; To improve the comprehension and critical thinking skills of participating students by providing them scientific articles published by invited speakers and promoting the discussion of research findings with the authors and the oral presentation skills of our G students by requiring them to make short presentations in the seminar series. The Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program was created in response to a legislative mandate to "increase the numbers of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty, investigators and students engaged in biomedical and behavioral research, and to broaden the opportunities for underrepresented minority faculty and students for participation in biomedical and behavioral research." The MBRS RISE Program at the UPR MSC, currently in its seventh year of support, requests support to continue to expand the overall impact and value of the program. Its overall goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities engaged in biomedical and behavioral research, focusing on the development of its URM undergraduate (UG) and graduate (G) student participants, so they can better compete as future biomedical researchers. We propose three Activities: Developmental Activities 1 & 2 - Student Participation in Year Round and Summer Research Programs and Developmental Activity 3: Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Seminar Series (IBRSS).