Short Term Training for Minority Students

项目总结 这份名为《少数民族短期培训计划》的R25提案将重点放在相当大的 关于血管生物学的多部门和机构研究的优势和多样性，请访问 范德比尔特大学和梅哈里医学院引入一个连贯的框架，以引入研究设计 和方法。将为10名本科生提供助学金。本科生将成为 从全国各地和R25倡议所述的个人群体中招募。每个 将努力让这些学生连续两个暑期参加该项目。而当 培训计划将主要集中在研究上，学生将有机会参加三个 每周一次的研究导论课程，在那里他们将获得可以应用于以下领域的研究基本技能 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，这将帮助他们为未来的研究生工作做好准备；关于机会的研讨会 (职业)研究；研究伦理研讨会；GRE准备课程；出席和 参加由教务长举办的系列研讨会。暑假结束时，学生们 将向其他学生和教职员工口头介绍他们的工作，主要是以 全国会议。这将伴随着一份关于他们夏季研究活动的简短书面报告， 期刊文章的风格。此培训旨在使学生为所需要和期望的事情做好准备。 在研究生院取得成功，提高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个部门的9个 范德比尔特和包括癌症生物学在内的生物医学科学部毗邻的建筑， 梅哈里医学院的药理学、微生物学和免疫学以及神经科学。其中两个 这项提议的主要目标是(1)提供鼓励学生选择的环境类型 从事科学研究，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 反过来，成功的个人将成为未来对研究事业感兴趣的学生的榜样。 另一个重要目标是为未来的科学家提供多学科研究培训，这将是至关重要的 发现有助于改善心血管疾病诊断、预防和治疗的新信息 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.