UCSC MHIRT Research 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数量增加，我们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。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，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实验室研究。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，和2）由营养不良或饥饿引起的幼儿发育病理。3)疾病从野生远距离迁徙物种、蛋禽传播给人类。UCSC- MHIRT计划将为这些重要研究设计直接的科学数据，并将在为MHIRT学生提供直接生物医学相关领域的特殊科学培训的背景下这样做。最近，结果 从我们的长期研究中获得的信息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。

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, bio medically 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 our 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, Panama and Japan ranging from basic biomedical and epidemiological investigation to focused lab 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 and 2) early childhood developmental pathologies resulting from malnutrition or starvation. 3) Disease transfer from wild long range migratory species, egg birds to humans. The UCSC- MHIRT program will contrive direct scientific data to these vital studies and will do so in the context of 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 US minority populations and emerging countries of Pacific Rim.