Office for Access to Biomedical Research and Training

描述（由申请人提供）：佛罗里达国际大学坚定地致力于为少数民族学生和教师提供研究机会，以提高他们在生物医学和行为科学领域实现具有全国竞争力的研究事业的潜力。它设立了获得生物医学研究和培训办公室（ABR），以实现以下目标：发展加强生物医学研究的机构基础设施；促进、鼓励和便利机构内外教员之间的跨学科和合作研究；提高教员在基础和应用生物医学和行为科学方面的研究能力和竞争力。有了这些目标，该机构希望建立一个越来越多的核心生产研究人员，他们将在主流生物医学科学研究领域具有全国竞争力。因此，该机构希望看到(a)向联邦机构提交的支持健康相关和生物医学研究的申请总数，(b) nih资助的申请数量，(c)研究者发起的RO1拨款数量，以及(d)每位教员每年同行评审的出版物数量显著增加。ABR办公室的活动包括教员研究促进奖（FREA）倡议，该倡议通过资助试点项目来支持教员的研究。为了进一步加强教师的研究参与，ABR办公室每年组织研讨会和研讨会。该机构的研究基础设施得到了显著改善，建造了两座健康和生命科学大楼，其中设有研究实验室和核心研究设施，如DNA测序实验室。今后的计划包括在目前的业务一级继续支持非洲区域办事处。自2001年以来，FIU通过(a)聘用新教师，(b)新项目，(c)新设施，(d)研究项目增长(e)拟议的医学院，展示了对发展医学教育和生物医学研究项目的坚定承诺。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Florida International University is strongly committed to providing minority students and faculty with research opportunities that will enhance their potential to achieve nationally competitive research careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. It has established the Office for Access to Biomedical Research and Training (ABR) to achieve the following goals: to develop institutional infrastructure for the enhancement of biomedical research: to promote, encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary and collaborative research between faculty within and outside the institution: and to enhance faculty research capability and competitiveness in basic and applied biomedical and behavioral science. With these goals the institution expects to build an increasing core of productive research investigators who will be nationally competitive in the mainstream biomedical science research arena. Consequently, the institution hopes to see a significant increase in (a) the total number of applications submitted to federal agencies supporting health-related and biomedical research, (b) the number of NIH-funded applications, (c) the number of investigator-initiated RO1 grants, and (d) the number of peer-reviewed publications per faculty member yearly. Activities of the ABR Office include the Faculty Research Enhancement Award (FREA) Initiative which supports faculty research through funding pilot projects. To further enhance faculty research participation, the ABR Office organizes annual symposia and workshops. The institution's research infrastructure has been significantly improved by the construction of two Health and Life Sciences buildings that house research laboratories and core research facilities, such as the DNA sequencing laboratory. Future plans include continued support of the ABR Office at the operational level currently in place. Since 2001 FIU has demonstrated a strong commitment to developing medical education and biomedical research programs by (a) new faculty hires, (b) new programs, (c) new facilities, (d) research program growth (e) proposed medical school.