Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC)

描述(由申请者提供)：波多黎各临床与转化研究联盟(PRCTRC)是一种创新的合作模式，汇集并利用波多黎各三个主要医疗和健康科学中心的智力和物质资源：波多黎各大学医学校园(UPRMSC)、加勒比中央大学(UCC)和庞塞医学与健康科学学院(PSM&HS)，以解决和减少对拉美裔人口影响最大的健康差距。这项任务是作为一个至关重要的催化因素来努力理解， 界定并解决拉美裔人口的健康差距问题。我们的努力以四个战略目标为指导：1)通过建立一个专注于减少拉美裔人口健康差距的中央计划，促进知识的产生和转化到社区；2)加强和支持现有的培训和指导计划，以增加临床和翻译研究领域新的少数族裔研究人员的数量；3)鼓励基础、临床和社会科学家以及社区网络和卫生计划之间的合作；加强和整合波多黎各各地现有的临床和转化性研究基础设施，以支持和扩大健康差距方面的临床和转化性研究PRCTRC培育了一个协同环境，支持整个临床和转化性研究的研究，重点关注对拉美裔健康构成最大威胁的四种疾病：艾滋病毒/艾滋病、神经疾病、心血管和代谢性疾病以及癌症。PRCTRC通过九个核心向研究人员提供这一综合基础设施：监管知识和支持、研究设计和生物统计、临床研究资源和设施、核心实验室技术资源、生物医学信息学、合作和伙伴关系、专业发展、临床和转化试点项目计划以及基于社区的研究。监督由行政核心提供，形成性和总结性评价由评价核心提供。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC) is an innovative model of collaboration, bringing together and leveraging the intellectual and physical resources of three major medical and health science centers in Puerto Rico: The University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPRMSC), the Universidad del Caribe Central (UCC), and the Ponce School of Medicine & Health Sciences (PSM&HS) to address and reduce health disparities that most impact Hispanic populations. The mission is to serve as a vital and catalytic element in the efforts to understand, define, and address health disparities in Hispanic populations. Our efforts are guided by four strategic goals: 1) Facilitate the generation and translation of knowledge from the bench into the community by establishing a centralized program focused on reducing health disparities among Hispanic populations; 2) Enhance and support existing training and mentoring programs to increase the number of new minority investigators in Clinical and Translational Research; 3) Encourage collaborations among basic, clinical, and social scientists and community networks and health programs; and 4) Enhance and integrate existing infrastructure for clinical and translational research across Puerto Rico to support and expand Clinical and Translational Research in health disparities The PRCTRC has fostered a synergistic environment that supports research across the clinical and translational research continuum, with an emphasis on four disease states that post the greatest threats to Hispanic health: HIV/AIDS, neurological diseases, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and cancer. The PRCTRC provides this integrated infrastructure to investigators through nine Cores: Regulatory Knowledge and Support, Research Design and Biostatistics, clinical Research Resources and Facilities, Technology Resources for Core Laboratories, Biomedical Informatics, Collaborations and Partnerships, Professional Development, Clinical and Translational Pilot Project Program, and Community-based Research. Oversight is provided by an Administrative Core and formative and summative evaluation is provided by an Evaluation Core.