BioMedTech: Students Translating and Exploring Medicine

描述(由申请人提供)：五大湖科学中心(GLSC)与临床与转化科学合作/凯斯西部储备大学(CTSC/CWRU)合作，并与嵌入的克利夫兰大都会学区(CMSD)MC2 STEM高中合作，请求NIH-SEPA项目支持开发生物医学技术：学生翻译和探索医学(STEM)。该项目将解决肥胖流行和糖尿病迅速增加的问题，这两种致命的组合会增加心血管疾病的风险。以高中生研究和科学交流实习为中心，学生将协助GLSC设计展品和教育项目，向公众介绍肥胖、糖尿病和心血管疾病之间的联系所需的广泛研究，包括实验室、临床、社区和人口研究。与GLSC和CTSC广泛的社区网络合作，SEPA-CTSC模式伙伴关系将使社区参与规划和评估教育活动。该项目建立在GLSC和CTSC/CWRU之间正在发展的伙伴关系以及与CMSD的合作基础上，这些合作对GLSC目前由国家环保总局资助的项目BioMedTech：绘制生物工程和技术的未来至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC), in partnership with the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative/Case Western Reserve University (CTSC/CWRU) and in collaboration with the embedded Cleveland Metropolitan School District's (CMSD) MC2 STEM High School, requests support from the NIH-SEPA program to develop BioMedTech: Students Translating and Exploring Medicine (STEM). The project will address the obesity epidemic and the rapid increase in diabetes, a deadly combination that multiplies the risk of cardiovascular disease. With high school student research and science communication internships at the center of the project, students will assist GLSC in designing exhibits and education programs that introduce the public to the broad spectrum of research that is needed on the linkages between obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, including laboratory, clinical, community, and population research. Working with GLSC's and the CTSC's extensive community networks, the SEPA- CTSC model partnership will engage the community in planning and evaluating educational activities. The project builds on the ongoing partnership developed between GLSC and CTSC/CWRU and collaboration with CMSD, which have been critical to GLSC's current SEPA- funded project, BioMedTech: Mapping the Future of BioEngineering and Technology.