Baylor Child Health Research Career Development Award

描述（由申请人提供）：贝勒儿童健康研究职业发展奖（CHRCDA）的目的是加强儿科医学初级教师在转化研究方面的学术研究和职业发展。我们将继续从各种临床和科学背景中招募聪明、有创造力和富有成效的年轻儿科研究人员。该奖项将允许我们通过提供(a)工资支持以确保受保护的时间，(b)研究支持，以及(c)结构化计划，由咨询委员会和教学课程监督指导，促进他们的研究发展。教学课程将提供拨款申请写作、实验设计和其他翻译研究领域所需的培训。由于该计划的目的是培养转化研究人员，使他们能够以自己的权利竞争资金，因此在该计划的第一年，每位学者将撰写K-08或K-23拨款提案，并在第二年的夏季或秋季将其提交给NIH。每位学者都在项目中得到指导，导师参与项目的许多方面，包括每年一次的评估静修，来自全国各地的知名医师科学家来评估项目并审查学者的研究。该计划的接受是高度竞争的，并且基于申请人在其导师的帮助下制定的研究计划的质量，导师的质量以及委员会对申请人在计划中取得成功，撰写同行评审出版物和获得独立研究资金的能力的评估。所有申请将由八名优秀教师组成的项目咨询委员会进行审查，我们预计每年支持四名学者。在过去的16年里，CHRCDA培养了53名内科科学家的职业发展，其中36名是贝勒学院的现任成员，另外9名是其他机构的学术儿科医生。该项目在指导贝勒医学院初级教师的研究和职业发展方面取得了巨大成功。总的来说，CHRCDA已经实现了促进儿童健康研究的最初目标，是儿科教师发展计划的重要组成部分。本奖助金提案旨在继续这个成功的计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of the Baylor Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) is to enhance the academic research and career development of junior faculty in pediatric medicine pursuing academic careers in translational research. We will continue to recruit bright, creative and productive young pediatric researchers from a variety of clinical and scientific backgrounds. The award will allow us to facilitate the development of their research by providing (a) salary support to ensure protected time, (b) research support, and (c) a structured program, with oversight of mentoring by an advisory committee and a didactic curriculum. The didactic curriculum will provide training in grant proposal writing, experimental design, and other areas necessary for a career in translational research. As the aim of the program is to train translational researchers to be able to compete for funding in their own right, during the first year in the program each Scholar will write a K-08 or K-23 grant proposal, and submit it to the NIH in the summer or fall of the second year. Each scholar is mentored through the program, with the mentor participating in many aspects of the program, including an annual Evaluation Retreat, where established physician scientists from around the country come to evaluate the program and review the scholars' research. Acceptance to the program is highly competitive, and is based on the quality of a research proposal developed by the applicant with the help of his or her mentor, the quality of the mentor, and the committee's assessment of the applicant's ability to succeed in the program, write peer-reviewed publications and obtain independent research funding. All applications will be reviewed by the Program Advisory Committee of eight outstanding faculty members, and we anticipate supporting four scholars each year. Over the last 16 years, the CHRCDA has fostered the career development of 53 physician scientists, 36 of whom are current members of the Baylor faculty and another nine of whom are academic pediatricians in other institutions. The program has been highly successful in guiding the research and career development of junior faculty at Baylor College of Medicine. Overall, the CHRCDA has achieved its original goal of fostering research for the benefit of the health of children and is a critical component of the faculty development program in the Department of Pediatrics. This grant proposal seeks to continue this successful program.