Support of Yerkes National Primate Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请寻求五年连续 支持埃默里大学耶克斯国家灵长类研究中心的基础拨款(P51 RR00165)。Yerkes NPRC的运作遵循NCRR《NPRC计划指南》(第六版)。如本文所述，YNPRC在本报告所述期间取得了实质性进展，并在此提出了今后五年(2006年5月1日至2011年4月30日)的全面计划。本申请的目标与我们的使命相一致，即提供开展研究计划所需的全面研究基础设施，该计划主要由主要由NIH提供的外部拨款和其他资助机制资助。请为以下所有或部分构成部分继续提供P51经费，以支持中心的科学使命：行政，包括科学领导和全面管理、业务服务、信息技术、人力资源和 一个公共事务；设施管理；研究资源，包括兽医、动物护理、群体管理、动物记录和行为管理；以及服务病理学、环境健康和安全和研究服务，为外部调查人员提供全面支持；以及四个科学服务核心：内分泌学、成像学、DNA芯片阵列和病毒学。还为四个科学部门寻求支持：微生物学和免疫学、神经科学、心理生物学和感觉运动系统。此外，还要求为五个风险研究项目提供支持，以使中心调查人员能够收集初步数据，并在可能导致后续外部支持的领域制定改进的方法。还寻求一两笔资源增加赠款的支持。最后，在“改善和现代化”项下要求提供支助，以加强基础设施的要素。耶克斯NPRC的中心目标是进行 一项专注于与人类健康相关的科学问题的研究计划，并提供 资源基础设施和适当的科学和兽医专业的专业知识，以支持这样一项计划，并加强中心作为核心研究人员和国内外科学家的资源的能力，以及提供教育和培训机会。

Description (provided by applicant): This application seeks five years of continued support for the base grant (P51 RR00165) for the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University. The operation of the Yerkes NPRC is guided by the NCRR Program Guidelines for NPRCs (Sixth Edition). The YNPRC, as documented herein, has recorded substantial progress in the present reporting period, and also here presents comprehensive plans for the next five years (5/1/2006 - 4/30/2011). The objectives in this application are aligned to our mission of providing the comprehensive research infrastructure required to conduct a research program largely funded by extramural grants and other funding mechanisms, chiefly from NIH. Continued P51 funding is requested for all or part of the following components to support the Center's scientific mission: Administration, including scientific leadership and overall management, business services, information technology, human resources, and a public affairs; Facilities Management; Research Resources, including veterinary medicine, animal care, colony management, animal records, and behavioral management; as well as service pathology, environmental health and safety and research services to provide comprehensive support to outside investigators; and four Science Service Cores: Endocrinology, Imaging, DNA Microchip Array and Virology. Support is also sought for four scientific divisions: Microbiology and Immunology, Neuroscience, Psychobiology and Sensory-Motor Systems. Additionally, support is requested for five Venture Research projects to allow Center investigators to collect preliminary data and develop improved methodologies in areas likely to lead to subsequent external support. Support is also sought or two resource enhancement grants. Finally, support is requested under Improvement and Modernization to enhance elements of the infrastructure. The Yerkes NPRC's central goal is to conduct a research program focused on scientific problems relevant to human health, and to provide the resource infrastructure and expertise in appropriate scientific and veterinary specialties to support such a program and to enhance the Center's ability to serve as a resource to core investigators and to scientists nationally and internationally, as well as to provide educational and training opportunities.