Morehouse Cardiovascular Research Center of Excellence

健康方面的种族/民族差异和少数民族科学家代表性不足的双刃剑问题是生物医学领域面临的两个最紧迫的挑战。作为解决这些棘手问题的一部分，为少数群体服务的机构没有得到充分利用。莫尔豪斯医学院（男男性接触者）具有独特的优势，利用这一P30奖励机制，以纠正这些问题，作为一个少数民族服务的学术健康中心，整合了其三方使命：教育少数民族学生的高比例;提供优质的医疗服务不足的少数民族社区和追求科学卓越的少数民族健康研究。 男男性接触者的行政领导有一个长期的机构承诺，建立男男性接触者心血管研究所（CVRI）的目标，作为全国卓越的多学科研究中心之一，并优先考虑少数民族健康研究和培训下一代少数民族科学家的研究培训计划。我们的方法旨在通过使CVRI主任将P30计划资源集中在我们的三大资产上-我们的教师，我们的研究基础设施和我们未来的科学家。因此，这个P30计划的三个主要目标是：1）已经被招募到CVRI的“新调查员”的保留和职业发展，2）我们共享使用资源的持续增强，以及3）我们的研究培训环境的进一步完善代表性不足的少数民族学生。这些目标将通过以下具体目标实现： 目标一：保留和指导大量有才华的新研究人员，开发独立的研究项目和多学科的合作研究团队。 目标二：建立支持前沿心血管科学的技术和共享研究基础设施。 目标三：通过维持一个充满活力的知识环境，有利于培训和培养少数民族学生发展成为领先的研究人员，扩大生物医学研究界的种族/民族多样性。 目标四：开发创新的跨学科研究项目，整合基础、转化、临床和人口科学方法，以解决心血管健康方面的种族/民族差异。

The dual-edged problem of racial/ethnic disparities in health and the under-representation of minority scientists are two of the most compelling challenges facing the field of biomedicine. Minority-Serving Institutions are under-utilized as part of the solution to these vexing problems. The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is uniquely positioned to utilize this P30 award mechanism to redress these issues as a minority-serving academic health center that integrates its tripartite mission of: educating a high proportion of minority students; providing quality medical care to under-served minority communities and pursuing scientific excellence in minority health research. The MSM executive leadership has a long-term institutional commitment to the goal of establishing the MSM Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) as one of the nation's preeminent multi-disciplinary research centers of excellence and research training programs that prioritizes minority health research and training the next generation of minority scientists. Our approach seeks to build strength upon strength by enabling the CVRI Director to focus the P30 program resources on our three major assets ~ our faculty, our research infrastructure and our future scientists. Accordingly, the three major objectives of this P30 program are: 1) the retention and career development of 'new investigators' that have already been recruited to the CVRI, 2) the ongoing enhancement of our shared-use resources, and 3) the further refinement of our research training environment for under-represented minority students. These objectives will be achieved by pursuing the following specific aims: Aim I: To retain and mentor a critical mass of talented new investigators that develop independent research programs and multi-disciplinary, collaborative research teams. Aim II: To establish enabling technologies and a shared-use research infrastructure that supports leading edge cardiovascular science. Aim III: To expand the racial/ethnic diversity of the biomedical research community by sustaining a vibrant intellectual environment conducive to training and nurturing the development of minority students into leading investigators. Aim IV: To develop innovative, cross-disciplinary research programs that integrate basic, translational, clinical and population science approaches to address racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health.