Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research & Education

描述（由申请人提供）：种子博士后创新研究和教育（SPIRE）是一个创新的博士后培训计划，提供培训经验，为未来的生物医学研究人员的成功必不可少。通过将研究培训与强调学习，教育和沟通的专业发展相结合，查佩尔山与7所NC历史上少数民族大学（HMU）结盟，通过生物分子科学少数民族发展伙伴关系（PMABS），在第一个SPIRE赠款期间为博士后创建了一个独特的创新计划，提供全面的培训。这种培训发展卓越的研究，以及学习/教育卓越，同时有助于为HMU少数民族学生提供平等的知识和技术革命和机会，以促进实现生物医学职业多样性的目标。 与其他PMABS计划相结合，SPIRE是一个令人信服的例子，说明可以在计划之间创造协同作用，为学员打开新的、急需的职业道路的大门--例如，研究，教学，政策，ELSI--解决这个国家面临的科学危机。这种竞争性的延续更新将推动SPIRE达到下一个重要的卓越水平，这将有力地证明为今天和明天的研究人员提供新型培训的重要性。以有形成果记录的方案整合和创新（例如，博士后和HMU少数民族学生在生物医学事业中成功），建立在评估和经验教训/成功的日期，将扩大和完善SPIRE的构思良好的原始设计在各种方式，包括：1）增加独特的培训博士后的数量，以满足新兴的专业和HMU的需要; 2）广泛传播IT创新，以进一步推进博士后和学生的成功; 3）扩大参与范围，包括来自杜克大学和北卡罗来纳州立大学的杰出研究人员; 4）目标学科（例如，基因组学，生物信息学，分子遗传学），以满足HMU学生的迫切学习需求;和5）扩大持续博士后少数民族学生研究指导的特殊机会，从而推进研究事业。SPIRE准备开始博士后培训和多样性的必要革命，这将振兴美国出生的学生对生物医学职业的兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (SPIRE) is an innovative post-doc training program that provides training experiences essential for success of the future's biomedical researchers. By merging research training with professional development emphasizing learning, education and communication, UNC Chapel Hill, in alliance with 7 NC historically minority universities (HMUs), via the Partnership for Minority Advancement in the Biomolecular Sciences (PMABS), has during the first SPIRE grant created a uniquely innovative program for post-docs that provides comprehensive training. This training develops research excellence, as well as learning/education excellence, which concurrently contributes to providing HMU minority students equal access to the knowledge and technology revolutions and opportunities with the goal of contributing to achieving diversity in biomedical careers. Integrated with other PMABS initiatives, SPIRE is a cogent example of the synergies that can be created between programs to open doors for trainees to novel, critically needed career paths - e.g., research, teaching, policy, ELSI-- that address the science crisis confronting this nation. This competing continuation renewal will advance SPIRE to the next significant level of excellence that will compellingly demonstrate the importance of providing new kinds of training to today's and tomorrow's researchers. Programmatic integration and innovation documented with tangible outcomes (e.g., success of post-docs and HMU minority students in biomedical careers), built upon evaluation and lessons learned/successes to date, will expand and refine SPIRE's well conceived original design in a variety of ways, including: 1) increase number of uniquely trained post-docs to meet burgeoning profession and HMU need; 2) diffuse IT innovation broadly to further advance post-doc and student success; 3) expand participation to include outstanding researchers from Duke University and NC State University; 4) target disciplines (e.g., genomics, bioinformatics, molecular genetics) to meet the urgent learning needs of HMU students; and 5) expand the exceptional opportunity for sustained post-doc mentoring of minority student research and thus advancement into research careers. SPIRE is poised to begin the needed revolution in post-doc traininq and diversity which will revitalize US born student interest in biomedical careers.