Short Term Training for Minority Students

项目摘要 这一名为“少数民族短期培训方案”的R25提案将重点关注相当多的 多部门和机构研究血管生物学的优势和多样性， 范德比尔特大学和梅哈里医学院纳入一个连贯的框架，介绍研究设计 和方法将提供10名本科生的津贴。本科生将在 从全国各地和R25倡议中所述的个人群体中招募。每 将努力让这些学生连续两个暑假参加该项目。而 培训计划将主要集中在研究，学生将有机会参加一个三 为期一周的研究入门课程，他们将获得基本的研究技能，这些技能可以应用于 他们自己的暑期工作和为期十周的分子生物学，遗传学， 和生物化学，这将有助于他们为未来的研究生工作做好准备;关于机会的研讨会 研究（职业）;研究伦理讲习班; GRE准备课程，以及出席和 参加由教师导师举办的系列研讨会。暑假结束时，学生们 将口头介绍他们的工作，以其他学生和教师，非常在风格的演讲给在 国家会议。这将伴随着他们的夏季研究活动的简短书面报告， 期刊文章的风格。这项培训的目的是让学生做好准备， 在研究生院取得成功，增加他们对血管生物学研究的兴趣，并向他们介绍 研究-技术、方法和职业选择。培训设施包括9个部门在9 邻近的建筑物在范德比尔特和生物医学科学部，包括癌症生物学， 药理学，微生物学和免疫学，神经科学，在Meharry医学院。两 这一建议的主要目标是（1）提供一种鼓励学生选择的环境 科学研究的职业生涯，以及（2）帮助增加血管生物学工作人员的多样性 研究，无论是在学术机构还是在私营部门的研究机会。那些 成功的个人，反过来，将作为未来的学生有兴趣在研究事业的榜样。 另一个重要目标是为未来的科学家提供多学科的研究培训，这将是至关重要的。 发现新的信息，这将导致改善诊断，预防和治疗心血管疾病 疾病

PROJECT SUMMARY This R25-proposal, entitled Short Term Training Program for Minorities, will focus the considerable strengths and diversity of multi-departmental and institutional research dealing with vascular biology at Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College into a coherent framework for introducing research design and methods. Stipends for 10 undergraduate students will be available. The undergraduate students will be recruited from across the country and from those groups of individuals described in the R25 initiative. Every effort will be made to have these students participate in the program for two consecutive summers. While the training program will focus primarily on research, the students will be offered the opportunity to attend a three week course on Introduction to Research, where they will obtain basic skills in research that can be applied to their own summer work and a ten week course on Concepts and Mechanisms in Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry which will help prepare them for future graduate work; a workshop on opportunities (careers) in research; a workshop on Ethics in Research; a GRE preparation course, and attendance and participation in a seminar series presented by the faculty preceptors. At the end of the summer, the students will present orally their work to the other students and the faculty, very much in the style of talks given at national meetings. This will be accompanied by a short written report of their summer research activities, in the style of a journal article. This training is intended to prepare the students for what is needed and expected to succeed in graduate school, to increase their interest in vascular biology research, and to introduce them to research - techniques, methodologies and career options. Training facilities include 9 departments in 9 adjacent buildings at Vanderbilt and the Division of Biomedical Sciences, including Cancer Biology, Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Neuroscience, at Meharry Medical College. Two of the major goals of this proposal are (1) to provide the type of environment that will encourage students to choose a career of scientific investigation, and (2) to help increase the diversity of those working in vascular biology research, whether it be at academic institutions or at research opportunities in the private sector. Those successful individuals, will, in turn, act as role models for future students interested in research careers. Another important goal is to provide multidisciplinary research training for future scientists which will be critical to discovering new information that will lead to improved diagnosis, prevention and therapy for cardiovascular diseases.