Alabama State University-Auburn University Partnership to Promote Diversity in Aging Research

阿拉巴马州立大学与奥本大学合作促进衰老研究的多样性

• 批准号: 10689673
• 负责人: MANOJ K. MISHRA
• 金额: $ 29.14万
• 依托单位: ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10689673
• 关键词: Acceleration; Address; African American student; Aging; Alabama; Ally; Basic Science; Bioethics; Biology; Communities; Development; Development Plans; Diet; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Education Projects; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environment; Exposure to; Faculty; Foundations; Funding Agency; Genetic; Goals; Health; Health Personnel; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Incidence; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning Module; Medical; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Outcome; Population; Postbaccalaureate; Postdoctoral Fellow; Preparation; Public Speaking; Readiness; Reporting; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Social Behavior; Socioeconomic Factors; Student Selections; Students; Training; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Underserved Population; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Writing; career; career development; design; disease disparity; experience; graduate school; graduate student; health care availability; health disparity; improved; inter-institutional; multidisciplinary; organizational structure; peer coaching; programs; rapid growth; recruit; skills; statistics; student training; success; summer research; symposium; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student; underserved students

Project summary: In the US, aging related diseases and health disparities are frequently observed; the differences in disease incidence and outcomes are thought to reflect the interplay of socioeconomic factors, access to health care, culture, diet, the environment, and population-specific genetics/biology. To address this issue, educational and socio-behavioral changes are needed. These changes can be facilitated by diversifying the aging related research and educational workforce. Moreover, the rapid growth and accumulation of specialized knowledge in today’s biomedical fields, combined with health issues that persist among certain groups within the US population, emphasize the need to diversify this workforce. Based on national statistics, the numbers of PhD graduates from underrepresented backgrounds are low and have not changed appreciably over three decades, despite efforts from various funding agencies, including the NIH. Several national reports point out factors that challenge underrepresented students in graduate and biomedical programs in achieving terminal degrees. Therefore, we propose to build an Alabama State University (ASU)-Auburn University (AU) R25 Partnership to provide aging focused educational modules and to expose underserved students to a summer research experience, thereby accelerating the development of scientists/health care providers from underserved backgrounds. By leveraging the educational and research infrastructure of the AU (Auburn, AL) and educational programs of Historically Black College and University (HBCU)-minority- serving ASU (Montgomery, AL), we have developed a persistent, multi-faceted strategy, combining multidisciplinary and inter-institutional education and basic aging related research projects, to train undergraduate students from underrepresented communities. The proposed aging education and research experience will be available to rising juniors and rising seniors majoring in biomedical disciplines. As part of this R25 program, introductory aging related educational modules (online module development) and basic research training will be offered to selected students at ASU during academic year while aging research experiences will be provided at the AU. Each year, the program will support 10 students (recruited from ASU). During academic year with continuous and consistent engagement, the selected students at ASU will participate in enrichment activities, including education; mentoring (research and pre-professional); scientific writing seminars; technical, bioethics, and scientific workshops; and training for presentations. During summer, these students will perform aging related research at AU for 10 weeks. Each year, all students will make presentations during either a reginal or national Scientific Symposium. In summary, this proposed program at ASU and AU will train students from underrepresented communities and advance the national goal of increasing diversity in the US biomedical sciences workforce, particularly in aging research.

项目摘要：在美国，经常观察到与衰老相关的疾病和健康差异; 疾病发病率和结果的差异被认为反映了社会经济因素的相互作用， 获得医疗保健、文化、饮食、环境和特定人群的遗传学/生物学。为了解决这个 需要在教育和社会行为方面作出改变。这些变化可以通过多样化来促进 老龄化相关的研究和教育工作者。此外，快速增长和积累 在当今的生物医学领域的专业知识，结合健康问题，坚持在某些 美国人口中的群体，强调需要使这一劳动力多样化。根据国家统计数据， 来自代表性不足背景的博士毕业生人数很少，而且没有明显变化 尽管包括NIH在内的各种资助机构做出了努力，但三十多年来，若干国家报告 指出挑战研究生和生物医学课程中代表性不足的学生的因素， 终极学位因此，我们建议建立一个亚拉巴马州立大学（ASU）-奥本大学 (AU)R25伙伴关系，提供以老龄化为重点的教育模块，并揭露服务不足的问题 学生暑期研究经验，从而加速科学家/健康的发展 来自服务水平低下背景的护理提供者。通过利用教育和研究基础设施， Au（奥本，AL）和历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的教育计划-少数民族- 服务亚利桑那州立大学（蒙哥马利，AL），我们已经制定了一个持久的，多方面的战略，结合 多学科和机构间教育以及与老龄化有关的基础研究项目， 来自弱势群体的本科生。建议的老龄化教育和研究 将为主修生物医学学科的大三学生和大四学生提供经验。作为其中的一部分 R25计划，介绍老龄化相关的教育模块（在线模块开发）和基础研究 培训将提供给选定的学生在亚利桑那州立大学在学年期间，而老化的研究经验将 在Au提供。每年，该计划将支持10名学生（从亚利桑那州立大学招募）。学术期间 一年的持续和一致的参与，在亚利桑那州立大学选定的学生将参加丰富的 活动，包括教育;指导（研究和职前）;科学写作研讨会;技术， 生物伦理学和科学讲习班;以及演讲培训。在暑假期间，这些学生将表演 在Au进行为期10周的老化相关研究。每年，所有学生都将在区域会议上进行演讲 或国家科学研讨会。总之，ASU和Au的这一拟议计划将培养学生， 代表性不足的社区，并推进增加美国生物医学多样性的国家目标 科学劳动力，特别是在老龄化研究。