Childrens Hospital Los Angeles Child Health Research Career Development Award

申请者描述(由申请者提供)：本申请申请资助在洛杉矶儿童医院/南加州大学凯克医学院儿科设立一个儿童健康研究职业发展奖(CHRCDA)中心。我们计划的目标是支持新任命的儿科教职员工的研究生涯发展。每年将从从内部培训计划或在全国范围内进行搜索后招募的候选人库中挑选一到两名CHRCDA学者。每一次招聘都将采取措施吸引妇女和少数族裔申请者。儿科主席将担任首席调查员，PI将与项目主任、内部咨询委员会和招聘官员一起管理该项目。我们的CHRCDA中心有来自9个系的30名南加州大学资深教员研究导师。所有CHRCDA学者将在这些教师导师的指导下进行经批准的研究，这些教师导师都有NIH资助的积极研究项目和指导初级教师的经验。CHRCDA候选人将与咨询委员会批准的导师一起制定他们的研究建议。一个由项目主任担任主席、由外部科学家和内部咨询委员会成员组成的审查委员会将对所有提案进行评估。由此产生的审查结果将提供给咨询委员会全体成员，咨询委员会随后将向国际和平研究所推荐学者。项目主任将向每个申请者提供书面评论，并将与每个申请者会面讨论审查。除了研究活动，CHRCDA学者还将参加计划中的正式和非正式教育指导课程，以进一步促进他们的研究生涯，包括两个正式课程，涵盖实验设计、伦理学和负责任的研究行为、生物统计学和生物信息学，以及体外和体内研究技术。学者们还将参加每周的研究研讨会和期刊俱乐部。咨询委员会和中国图书馆学术委员会将密切监测所有学者的培训和工作效率。CHRCDA的资助将使CHLA继续在其在促进儿科研究人员的研究职业发展方面取得的成功的基础上继续发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests funding to establish a Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) center within the Department of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles/Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC). The objective of our program is to support the research career development of newly appointed pediatric faculty members. One or two CHRCDA scholars will be selected each year from a pool of candidates recruited from internal training programs or following national searches. Measures to attract women and minority applicants will be incorporated with each recruitment. The Chair of Pediatrics will serve as principal investigator and the PI, in concert with the Program Director, internal Advisory Committee, and recruitment officer, will administer the program. Our CHRCDA center has 30 USC senior faculty research mentors from 9 departments. All CHRCDA scholars will conduct approved research under the guidance of these faculty mentors, all of whom have active NIH funded research programs and experience in mentoring junior faculty. CHRCDA candidates will develop their research proposals with advisory committee approved mentors. A review committee chaired by the Program Director and consisting of external scientists and internal Advisory Committee members will evaluate all proposals. The resulting reviews will be provided to the full Advisory Committee who will then recommend scholars to the PI. The Program Director will provide each applicant with the written critiques and will meet with each applicant to discuss the reviews. In addition to research activities, CHRCDA scholars will also participate in a planned curriculum of formal and informal educational instruction to further enhance their research careers, including two formal courses that cover experimental design, ethics and responsible conduct of research, biostatistics, and bioinformatics, as well as in-vitro and in-vivo research techniques. Scholars also will participate in weekly research seminars and journal clubs. The training and productivity of all scholars will be closely monitored by the Advisory Committee and by the CHLA Academic Council. CHRCDA funding will allow CHLA to continue to build upon the success it has achieved in fostering research career development of pediatric investigators.