The Colorado Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Progra

描述（由申请人提供）：科罗拉多大学安舒茨医学院（UCAMC）“在妇女健康领域建立跨学科研究职业”（科罗拉多BIRCWH）项目更新旨在为优秀的初级教师提供最先进的跨学科和个性化的职业发展培训，以最大限度地提高他们在改善妇女健康相关领域建立独立生物医学研究职业的能力。从长远来看，我们力求使妇女健康研究领域受益，并最终使妇女健康受益，办法是在工作队伍中增加一支训练有素、多样化的研究人员队伍，他们有能力回答有关妇女健康和性别差异的关键科学问题。为了实现这些目标，我们创造了一种环境，在对改善妇女健康至关重要的重点和互动研究领域促进跨学科合作。科罗拉多BIRCWH将继续设在妇女健康研究中心（CWHR），该中心在校园和社区提供关键项目，支持我们的BIRCWH学者。此外，自2007年获得科罗拉多州BIRCWH资助以来，UCAMC成功地竞争了美国国立卫生研究院（CCTSI-科罗拉多州临床转化科学研究所）的临床和转化科学奖。CCTSI提供的项目与科罗拉多BIRCWH有着互利的合作关系，为我们的BIRCWH学者提供了一个丰富的环境，与BIRCWH特定的项目和CWHR的项目相一致。UCAMC对BIRCWH提供了非常高的支持，例如医学院院长对BIRCWH的大力财政支持。科罗拉多BIRCWH的领导团队将由Judith Regensteiner博士领导，她将继续担任首席研究员/项目主任（PI/PD）， Nanette Santoro担任副研究员/PD。两人都有丰富的指导和研究经验。我们将选择有前途和多样化的BIRCWH学者，因为我们在当前项目期间已经有了这些学者，他们将与来自我们多个校区和学校的经验丰富的导师（以及导师团队）配对，在UCAMC具有强大优势的3个跨学科和相互关联的重点领域，包括1。妊娠：胎盘、哺乳、胎儿/新生儿规划；免疫学/风湿病学/炎症学成人健康：肥胖、更年期、衰老、糖尿病和心血管疾病。学者们还可以利用UCAMC丰富的机构研究资源，包括跨学科项目和课程，以及大量的核心设施。由于当前大多数研究的复杂性，跨学科研究团队是未来的潮流，我们的BIRCWH学者应该成为生物医学科学的下一代领导者。鉴于我们的BIRCWH学者在当前项目中的成功，我们渴望通过这次更新继续发展和改进我们的项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (UCAMC) "Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health" (Colorado BIRCWH) Program renewal is to provide outstanding junior faculty with state-of-the-art interdisciplinary and individualized career development training that will maximize their ability to establish independent biomedical research careers in areas relevant to improving women's health. Long term, we seek to benefit the field of women's health research and ultimately, women's health, by adding a well-trained, diverse group of researchers to the work force who are equipped to answer key scientific questions about women's health and sex differences. To accomplish these goals we have created an environment that nurtures interdisciplinary collaborations in focused and interactive research areas that are essential to improving the health of women. The Colorado BIRCWH will continue to be housed in the Center for Women's Health Research (CWHR), which provides key programs both on campus and in the community that support our BIRCWH Scholars. In addition, since the 2007 award of the Colorado BIRCWH grant, UCAMC has successfully competed for a Clinical and Translational Science Award from NIH (CCTSI- Colorado Clinical Translational Science Institute). The programs offered by the CCTSI, with which the Colorado BIRCWH has a mutually beneficial affiliation, provide a rich environment for our BIRCWH Scholars in concert with the BIRCWH-specific programs and those of the CWHR. The UCAMC has a very high level of support for the BIRCWH, exemplified by strong financial support from the Dean of the School of Medicine for the BIRCWH. The Leadership Team for the Colorado BIRCWH will be headed by Judith Regensteiner, PhD who will continue as Principal Investigator/Program Director (PI/PD) with Nanette Santoro as coPI/PD. Both have extensive mentoring and research experience. We will select promising and diverse BIRCWH Scholars, as we have over the course of the current project period who will be paired with experienced mentors (and who will have mentor teams) from our multiple campuses and schools in 3 interdisciplinary and interrelated focus areas across the lifespan in which UCAMC has great strength including 1. Pregnancy: placentation, lactation, fetal/neonatal programming, 2. Immunology/Rheumatology/Inflammation and 3. Adult Health: obesity, menopause, aging, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Scholars will also have access to UCAMC's rich base of institutional research resources including interdisciplinary programs and coursework, as well as substantial core facilities. Because of the complexity of most current research, interdisciplinary research teams are the wave of the future and our BIRCWH Scholars should become extraordinarily well-positioned to be the next generation of leaders in biomedical science. Given the success of our BIRCWH Scholars in the current program we are eager to continue developing and improving our program through this renewal. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed program is relevant to career development of junior faculty in women's health research. Junior faculty who are selected for participation in the program will receive mentoring through by a primary mentor and team mentoring approach as well as access to other resources including biostatistical support, required and optional coursework and a Seminar series. The overall objective of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus (UCAMC) "Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health" (Colorado BIRCWH) Program, is to provide outstanding junior faculty with state-of-the-art interdisciplinary and individualized career development training that will maximize their ability t establish independent biomedical research careers in areas relevant to improving women's health.