MHIRT: Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：UCSC-MHIRT研究计划的长期目标是积极参与正在进行的，长期的国际，生物医学相关的研究项目，在自然和实验室环境中进行的代表性不足的少数民族学生与学生和教师合作从东道国。随着研究生和本科生研究培训的悠久传统，UCSC-MHIRT提供了具有挑战性和独特的生物研究机会，结合联合收割机丰富和刺激的文化经验与生产力和创造性的科研职业培训。这些经验为UCSC-MHIRT学生提供了更广阔的国际科学和教育视野，增强了自信心和独立性，以及技术专业知识的大幅提高。我们的计划已经产生了一个令人满意的代表性不足的少数民族学生选择先进的科学培训，从而下一代的生物医学科学家和学术教师的领导人数增加。该研究在五个主要的国外地点提供了广泛的令人兴奋的项目;巴塔哥尼亚，新西兰，德国，巴拿马和日本，从基本的生物医学和流行病学调查到NCMHD使命声明中包括的疾病病因学的重点研究。其中包括：1）病态肥胖和相关病症，如糖尿病、心血管疾病和肾功能不全; 2）由营养不良或饥饿引起的幼儿发育病理学;和3）来自野生迁徙物种的疾病转移（例如，海洋哺乳动物和鸟类）对人类和其他几个领域的影响。UCSC-MHIRT计划不仅将为这些重要的研究做出直接的科学贡献，而且还将为MHIRT学生提供直接生物医学相关领域的特殊科学培训。最近，从我们的长期研究中获得的结果为几种严重的人类病理学提供了重要的临床见解，这些病理学对美国少数民族人口和太平洋沿岸新兴国家的影响不成比例。 相关性：UCSC-MHIRT计划旨在为代表性不足和少数民族学生提供高质量的研究培训，以促进他们追求先进的学术科学培训和生物医学研究的职业生涯。该计划提供了研究机会，重点是基础生物医学科学，重点是对全球少数民族人口产生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.