Hampton University Biomedical Research Training Initiative (HUBIRTI)

汉普顿大学生物医学研究培训计划 (HUBIRTI)

• 批准号: 8848397
• 负责人: CECILE ANDRAOS-SELIM
• 金额: $ 33.03万
• 依托单位: HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8848397
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hampton University (HU) is requesting funding for five years to implement a MARC-U-STAR Program. This project addresses the need to reduce the disparity in the number of individuals from underrepresented backgrounds in biomedical research careers. Minority investigators bring unique perspectives and experiences that enhance the potential for understanding factors that underlie racial/ethnic variation in health and health status as well as disease among the American populations. The long-term goals of this program are to prepare HU graduates to be leaders in biomedical research by improving their preparation for Ph.D. programs as well as future research careers. Specific aims of the Program are to: (1) increase and enhance the pool of potential MARC trainees at HU interested in pursuing PhD or MD/PhD programs in biomedical sciences; and (2) develop the critical thinking, problem solving, quantitative reasoning and communication skills of MARC trainees. The research design involves recruiting HU freshman from the biology, chemistry, mathematics, and chemical engineering disciplines, who are interested in learning about PhD careers in research and who will become pre-MARC trainees. They will complete a set of courses and activities designed to increase their quantitative, critical thinking, and problem solving skills including tw mathematics courses; two biology courses; and two-semesters of general chemistry. To enhance their research skills, the laboratory components of BIO 105-Intro to Biology and BIO 412-Gene Expression will be redesigned into inquiry-based laboratories. Pre-MARC students also will increase their awareness of PhD careers and improve their study and time management skills through the "Pathway to PhD" workshop. They will attend a MARC journal club and other activities to enhance their interests in research. Five highly motivated and academically strong pre-MARC students (rising juniors) will be selected per year to become MARC trainees. They will complete an interdisciplinary curriculum that includes a differential equations course, with biomedical applications; a biostatistics course and an upper level cell/molecular biology course. MARC trainees will participate in research in funded intramural and extramural labs. This includes two summer research at T32 institutions mentored by renowned scientists. They will present their research results at the newly modified MARC research seminar course at HU and at least one national conference to increase their communication skills, allow them to network with established scientists and be exposed to the latest in biomedical research. MARC trainees will attend a verbal reasoning workshop to gain additional skills needed for reading comprehensively and writing scientifically and a Responsible Conduct of Research workshop. Together, these activities will better prepare the MARC trainees and increase the number of highly motivated HU students matriculating into and graduating from biomedical PhD or MD/PhD and eventually pursuing a research career.

描述（由申请人提供）：汉普顿大学（HU）正在申请五年的资金来实施MARC-U-星星计划。该项目解决了减少生物医学研究职业中代表性不足背景的个人数量差异的需要。少数民族研究者带来了独特的观点和经验，提高了理解健康和健康方面种族/民族差异的潜在因素的潜力。 美国人的健康状况和疾病。该计划的长期目标是通过提高他们的博士学位准备准备HU毕业生成为生物医学研究的领导者。以及未来的研究工作。该计划的具体目标是：（1）增加和提高潜在的MARC学员在胡感兴趣的追求博士或MD/博士课程在生物医学科学的池;和（2）发展批判性思维，解决问题，定量推理和MARC学员的沟通技巧。研究设计涉及从生物学，化学，数学和化学工程学科招募HU新生，他们有兴趣了解博士研究职业，并将成为MARC前学员。他们将完成一系列课程和活动，旨在提高他们的定量，批判性思维和解决问题的能力，包括两门数学课程;两门生物课程;和两个学期的普通化学。为了提高他们的研究技能，生物105-生物学介绍和生物412-基因表达的实验室组成部分将被重新设计为基于探究的实验室。预MARC学生还将提高他们对博士职业的认识，并通过“博士之路”研讨会提高他们的学习和时间管理技能。他们将参加MARC期刊俱乐部和其他活动，以提高他们的研究兴趣。五个高度积极性和学术上强大的预MARC学生（上升大三学生）将每年选择成为MARC学员。他们将完成一个跨学科的课程，包括微分方程课程，生物医学应用;生物统计学课程和上层细胞/分子生物学课程。MARC学员将参加资助的校内和校外实验室的研究。这包括由著名科学家指导的T32机构的两项夏季研究。他们将在HU新修改的MARC研究研讨会课程和至少一次全国会议上展示他们的研究成果，以提高他们的沟通技巧，使他们能够与知名科学家建立联系，并接触到最新的生物医学研究。MARC学员将参加一个口头推理研讨会，以获得全面阅读和科学写作所需的额外技能，并参加一个负责任的研究行为研讨会。总之，这些活动将更好地准备MARC学员，并增加积极性高的HU学生入学和从生物医学博士或MD/博士毕业，并最终追求研究生涯的数量。