Summer Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School

明尼苏达大学医学院暑期研究

• 批准号: 8680313
• 负责人: Peter B Bitterman
• 金额: $ 15.75万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8680313
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of this program is to develop the requisite infrastructural support that will ultimately increase the diversity of our biomedical scientific workforce. In our view this lack of diversity in this workforce, particularly at the docoral and professional level, hinders our ability to enhance the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular, lung and blood diseases. This includes difficulty in recruiting individuals from under- represented groups into clinical trials, and efforts to eliminate health disparities that disproportionately affect individuals from under-represented groups. In addition, the lack of diversity narrows the pipeline and perspectives of talented individuals who can advance the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's scientific mission. To address this long-term goal, we have developed a number of short-term objectives: 1. Recruit a diverse, academically outstanding cohort of students from across the US and Puerto Rico to the University of Minnesota, 2. Provide student participants with a program faculty-mentored independent research opportunity, and 3. Develop an innovative research-training module devoted to recruiting and training a cohort of students committed to the pursuit of a combined MD-PhD degree. Each student will be working independently of the rest of the group on an individualized research project supervised by their faculty mentor. However, the overarching theme linking all of these research projects is their relevance to diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders. The proposed research training program will provide 22 undergraduate students recruited from across the US and Puerto Rico to an intensive 10-week summer independent research experience in the laboratories of program faculty mentors on the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus. It is anticipated that all of these students will have had between one and four years of university education at the baccalaureate level. To be eligible students must not yet have received their baccalaureate degree, and must self-identify as a member of an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or be disabled, or disadvantaged. The ultimate measure of the success of this research training program will be its ability to assist program participants in achieving their goals of becoming members of the biomedical scientific workforce, pursuing research in cardiovascular, lung or blood diseases. It is anticipated that between a third and a half of student participants will go o to pursue advanced research degrees in the biological sciences upon completion of their baccalaureate degree programs. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目的长期目标是发展必要的基础设施支持，最终增加我们生物医学科学劳动力的多样性。我们认为，这一工作队伍缺乏多样性，特别是在医生和专业人员一级，阻碍了我们加强预防和治疗心血管、肺部和血液疾病的能力。这包括从代表性不足的群体中招募个体进入临床试验的困难，以及努力消除对代表性不足群体个体不成比例影响的健康差异。此外，缺乏多样性缩小了人才的渠道和观点，他们可以推进国家心肺血液研究所的科学使命。为了实现这一长期目标，我们制定了一些短期目标：招收来自美国和波多黎各的多元化、学术优秀的学生到明尼苏达大学。2 .为学生参与者提供一个由教师指导的独立研究机会；开发一个创新的研究培训模块，致力于招募和培训一批致力于追求医学博士学位的学生。每个学生都将独立于小组的其他成员，在导师的指导下完成一个个性化的研究项目。然而，连接所有这些研究项目的首要主题是它们与心脏、血管、肺和血液疾病的相关性；血液资源;还有睡眠障碍。拟议的研究培训计划将从美国和波多黎各招募22名本科生，在明尼苏达大学双城校区的项目教师导师实验室进行为期10周的暑期独立研究体验。预计所有这些学生都将接受一到四年的大学学士学位教育。要获得资格，学生必须尚未获得学士学位，并且必须自我认同为一个未被充分代表的种族或族裔群体的成员，或者是残疾人或弱势群体。这项研究培训计划成功的最终衡量标准将是它是否有能力帮助计划参与者实现他们的目标，成为生物医学科学队伍的成员，从事心血管、肺部或血液疾病的研究。预计三分之一到一半的学生将在完成学士学位课程后继续攻读生物科学领域的高级研究学位。（摘要结束）