MHIRT: Training Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：UCSC-MHIRT研究计划的长期目标是与东道国的学生和教师合作，积极参与正在进行的、长期的国际生物医学相关研究项目，这些项目在自然和实验室环境中进行。拥有研究生和本科生研究培训的悠久传统，UCSC-MHIRT提供具有挑战性和独特的生物研究机会，将丰富和鼓舞人心的文化经验与富有成效和创造性的科学研究职业培训相结合。这些经历为UCSC-MHIRT学生提供了更广阔的国际科学和教育视角，增强了自信和独立性，并在技术专业知识方面取得了实质性的进步。我们的计划令人满意地增加了选择高级科学培训的未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的数量，从而产生了下一代生物医学科学家和学术人员的领导。这项研究在五个主要的外国地点提供了一系列令人兴奋的项目：巴塔哥尼亚、新西兰、德国、巴拿马和日本，范围从基础生物医学和流行病学调查到NCMHD使命声明中包含的疾病病因学重点研究。这些疾病包括：1)病态肥胖及相关疾病，如糖尿病、心血管疾病和肾功能不全；2)营养不良或饥饿引起的儿童早期发育病理；3)从野生迁徙物种(如海洋哺乳动物和鸟类)向人类和其他几个地区传播疾病。UCSC-MHIRT项目不仅将对这些重要研究做出直接的科学贡献，而且将在为MHIRT学生提供与生物医学直接相关的领域的特殊科学培训的同时做到这一点。最近，我们从长期研究中获得的结果为几种严重的人类病理提供了重要的临床见解，这些疾病对美国少数民族人口和环太平洋新兴国家的影响不成比例。 相关性：UCSC-MHIRT项目旨在为代表不足和少数族裔的学生提供高质量的研究培训，以促进他们追求高级学术科学培训和生物医学研究的专业生涯。该计划提供了研究机会，重点是基础生物医学科学，重点是对世界各地少数民族人口造成不成比例影响的病理学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term objective of the UCSC-MHIRT Research Program is to actively engage underrepresented minority students in on-going, long term international, biomedically relevant research projects conducted in both the natural and laboratory environment in collaboration with students and faculty from the host country. With a long tradition of both graduate and undergraduate research training, UCSC-MHIRT offers challenging and unique biological research opportunities that combine rich and stimulating cultural experience with productive and creative scientific research career training. These experiences provide UCSC-MHIRT students with broader international scientific and educational perspectives, increased self-confidence and independence, plus substantial improvements in technical expertise. Our program has produced a satisfying increase in the number of underrepresented minority students choosing advanced scientific training and consequently the leadership of the next generation of biomedical scientists and academic faculty. The research provides a broad spectrum of exciting projects in five major foreign sites; Patagonia, New Zealand, Germany, Panama and Japan ranging from basic biomedical and epidemiological investigation to focused research on disease etiology included in the NCMHD mission statement. These include: 1) morbid obesity and related conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and renal insufficiency; 2) early childhood developmental pathologies resulting from malnutrition or starvation; and 3) disease transfer from wild migratory species (e.g., marine mammals and birds) to humans and several other areas. The UCSC-MHIRT program will not only make direct scientific contributions to these vital studies but will do so while providing MHIRT students with exceptional scientific training in fields of immediate biomedical relevance. Recently, results obtained from our long term studies have provided important clinical insights into several severe human pathologies that disproportionately impact U.S. minority populations and emerging countries of the Pacific Rim. RELEVANCE: The UCSC-MHIRT program is designed to provide highly quality research-training for underrepresented and minority students to foster their pursuit of advanced academic scientific training and professional careers in biomedical research. The program offers research opportunities with strong emphasis in basic biomedical science with emphasis on pathologies that disproportionately impact minority populations worldwide.