Los Angeles Basin Bridges to the Ph.D. Program

描述（由申请人提供）：洛杉矶盆地是数百万非裔美国人、拉丁美洲人、美洲印第安人和太平洋岛民的家园，但很少有人参加研究生课程，最终获得博士学位。广泛的生物医学领域。这种对国家生物医学研究事业的参与不足，意味着大量人才的流失，这些人才没有被用于解决国家的许多生物医学问题。作为这种情况的部分解决方案，洛杉矶盆地的三个机构建议继续合作洛杉矶盆地桥梁博士。计划（LABB（R）博士），以增加有才华的少数民族学生在博士学位的数量。生物医学科学的课程。这将通过增加少数民族学生在强大的终端科学硕士（MS）的转移来完成。项目在少数民族机构垂直整合到博士学位。主要研究型大学的课程。这些机构是加州州立大学，洛杉矶（加州州立大学洛杉矶分校），少数民族机构，授予硕士学位。作为最高的科学学位，和两个博士学位-授予主要研究机构：洛杉矶的加州大学（UCLA）和欧文的加州大学（UCI）我们建议每年培养一批6名攻读硕士学位的少数民族学生。在加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的学位，旨在提高他们的学术和研究成果的计划;将他们融入更广泛的南加州生物医学研究社区;让他们接触到广泛的生物医学科学和科学家;提高他们的转移率博士学位。计划;并为他们在生物医学科学最终成功的研究事业奠定基础。LABB（R）博士旨在在加州州立大学洛杉矶分校创造一个在许多重要方面模仿博士课程的环境。我们提供一个强大的，基于实验室的MS。研究环境，研究员的研究兴趣驱动他们在实验室的位置。我们为研究员设计了一个学术计划，克服了他们本科记录中的不足，同时提高了他们的GPA，并将他们的GRE成绩提高到具有竞争力的水平。我们在整个学年举办三个强大的每周科学研讨会系列，为研究员和教师提供与博士授予机构的学术科学家互动的机会。我们为我们的研究员提供密切的指导，以指导他们通过学术过程-由少数群体成员代表的教师提供指导。这些最佳实践，由LABB（R）博士课程发起和制度化，使加州州立大学洛杉矶分校成为大洛杉矶地区少数民族科学毕业生备受尊敬的磁铁，以获得他们的MS学位并继续攻读博士学位。 公共卫生相关性：洛杉矶盆地通往博士学位的桥梁该计划将增加从事生物医学研究的博士级科学家的数量，以提高美国公众的健康水平。该计划的重点是美国人口部分的成员，传统上在科学方面代表性不足。这些人将更有可能把他们的职业生涯花在少数群体特有的健康差距上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Los Angeles basin is home to millions of African Americans, Latinos, American Indians and Pacific Islanders, but few are enrolled in graduate programs leading to the Ph.D. in the broad range of biomedical sciences. This under-participation in the nation's biomedical research enterprise represents the loss of a large talent pool that has not been applied towards the solution of the Nation's many biomedical problems. As a partial solution to this situation, three institutions in the Los Angeles basin propose to continue the collaborative Los Angeles Basin Bridges to the Ph.D. Program (LABB(R) PhD) to increase the number of talented minority students in Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences. This will be done by increasing the transfer of minority students in strong terminal Master of Science (M.S.) programs at a minority institution by vertical integration into Ph.D. programs at major research universities. These institutions are California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a minority institution, which awards the M.S. as its highest science degree, and two Ph.D.-granting major research institutions: the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California at Irvine (UCI) We propose to train each year a group of six minority students pursuing the M.S. degree at Cal State LA in a program designed to enhance their academic and research achievement; integrate them into the broader Southern California biomedical research community; expose them to a broad range of biomedical sciences and scientists; enhance their transfer rate to Ph.D. programs; and establish the foundation for their eventual successful research careers in the biomedical sciences. The LABB(R) PhD seeks to create an environment at Cal State LA that mimics a doctoral program in many important respects. We provide a strong, lab-based M.S. research environment where the research interests of the Fellows drive their placement in labs. We design an academic plan for the Fellows that overcome deficiencies in their undergraduate records while increasing their GPAs and improving their GRE scores to competitive levels. We host three strong, weekly science seminar series throughout the academic year that provide opportunities for Fellows and faculty to interact with academic scientists from PhD-granting institutions. And we provide close mentoring to our Fellows to guide them through the academic process-mentoring provided by a faculty that is itself well-represented by minority group members. These best practices, initiated and institutionalized by the LABB(R) PhD Program, have made Cal State LA a well-respected magnet for minority science graduates in the Greater Los Angeles area to earn their MS degrees and proceed to the PhD degree. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Los Angeles Basin Bridges to the Ph.D. Program will increase the numbers of doctoral-level scientists engaged in biomedical research to enhance the health of the US public. The Program focuses on members of US population segments that have traditionally been under-represented in the sciences. These individuals will be more likely to spend their careers working on health disparities specific to minority populations.