Developmental Research Core

核心摘要 发展研究核心(DRC)的战略使命是提供一种机制，促进以中心主题为重点的创新研究(发展试验和跨TREC试验项目)，以促进未来在能量学和癌症方面的跨学科研究，并帮助该领域未来的领导者的发展。刚果民主共和国还将促进与其他实体的探索，以协同提高TREC内部成果和整个TREC项目的成果。 刚果民主共和国的具体目标是： (1)鼓励高质量、创新和跨学科的能量学和癌症研究，探索和整合肥胖病因和相关健康行为理论，并具有广泛的人群影响，以预防和控制肥胖症和癌症； (2)将个人研究项目的活动扩展到反映跨学科科学的新领域； (3)提供机制，以发展、评估和确保试验研究计划成功完成；及 (4)评估刚果民主共和国的成功。 为了实现这些目标，核心将从TREC中心第二年开始，在资源确定后，每年支持两个发展试点项目，并持续到第五年。 发展试点项目将探索有助于现有中心项目的新想法和新出现的机会。项目将侧重于能量学和癌症方面的跨学科研究，探索和整合肥胖症的病因和相关的健康行为理论，对预防和控制肥胖症和癌症产生广泛的人口影响。此外，核心将支持跨TREC试点项目，包括 与其他TREC获奖者的合作和其他跨TREC活动需要推进我们的TREC中心和收集TREC资助的中心。根据我们评估TREC在产生跨学科科学方面的成功的总体计划，我们将对这一核心进行明确的评估。特别是，我们将应用Stokols博士(2003)提出的跨学科科学标准。这一评估战略考虑了生产力的标准测量以及拟议的先导研究对跨学科科学的贡献。通过这项计划资助的研究将作为一种机制，在中心未来的研究中推动其边界。

Core Summary The strategic mission ofthe Developmental Research Core (DRC) is to provide a mechanism for fostering innovative research (Developmental Pilot and Cross-TREC Pilot Projects) focused on the Center's theme that will stimulate future transdisciplinary research in energetics and cancer and help in the development of future leaders in the field. The DRC will also promote exploration with others entities that can synergistically enhance internal TREC outcomes and also outcomes of the overall TREC program. The specific aims of the DRC are: (1) to encourage high-quality, innovative, and transdisciplinary research in energetics and cancer that explores and integrates the etiology of obesity and relevant health behavior theories, with broad population impact to prevent and control obesity and cancer; (2) to expand the activities of individual research projects into new areas that reflect transdisciplinary science; (3) to provide a mechanism for developing, evaluating, and ensuring successful completion of pilot research projects; and (4) to evaluate the success of the DRC. To accomplish these aims, the Core will in support two developmental pilot projects per year beginning in the second year of the TREC Center, after resources have been established, and continue through year five. Developmental pilot projects will explore new ideas and emerging opportunities that will contribute to existing Center projects. Projects will focus on transdisciplinary research in energetics and cancer that explores and integrates the etiology of obesity and relevant health tjehavior theories, with broad population impact to prevent and control obesity and cancer. Additionally, the Core will support Cross-TREC Pilot Projects involving collaborations with other TREC awardees and other cross-TREC activities needed to advance both our TREC Center and the collection of TREC Centers funded. Drawing on our overall plan to evaluate the success of the TREC at generating transdisciplinary science, we will provide an explicit evaluation of this Core. In particular, we will apply criteria for transdisciplinary science suggested by Dr. Stokols (2003)\ This evaluation strategy considers standard measures of productivity as well as the contribution of proposed pilot research to transdisciplinary science. The research funded through this program will sen/e as a mechanism for pushing the Center's boundaries in its future research.