Annual Conference to Accelerate Research to Practice

描述（由申请人提供）： 支持代表性不足的少数民族学生接受教育和从事科学研究的努力取得了一些成功。由美国国立卫生研究院普通医学科学研究所（NIH-GMS）赞助的少数民族研究机会（MORE）等项目已被证明可以增加URM学生继续成功从事生物医学科学研究的可能性（Barlow和Villarejo，2004）。然而，直到最近，很少有研究报告，解决了干预方案如何产生效果，信息可以用来加强方案和扩大支持工作。 2003年，NIH-GMS开始资助基础研究，旨在了解“干预措施的有效性促进进入生物医学研究职业”倡议下的干预方案的过程和效果。第一批赠款现已进入第四年，也是最后一年的资助，其他项目也已加入该集群。目前有11个项目正在进行中。对这些研究结果的及时分析和综合将有助于最大限度地发挥这项研究对NIH政策制定者和决策者的效用。 本提案寻求资金，以支持召开一次年度会议（“加速将研究转化为实践的年度会议”），该会议将召集本专题组的主要研究人员和其他主要研究人员，举行为期两天的会议。（目前有11个这样的受赠者，预计每年增加6个，每年有4到6个受赠者完成。 在会议期间，每个受赠团体将提交一份关于该团体研究活动的进度报告，重点是过去一年的主要研究结果。在所有小组提交报告后，主要调查人员将开会，并在专家顾问的协助下，分析和综合所提交的集体调查结果，目的是确定跨小组的可复制和重要的调查结果。顾问（待选）将在以下方面具有高水平的专业知识：（a）关于支持代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的文献，（B）支持计划设计，以及（c）社会和行为科学研究方法。会议结束后，R13主要研究者和顾问将共同撰写一份报告，提交给NIH-GMS领导层。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Attempts to support underrepresented minority (URM) students for education and careers in scientific research have had some success. Programs such Minority Opportunities in Research (MORE) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH-GMS) have been shown to increase the likelihood that URM students will continue successfully towards careers in biomedical science research (Barlow and Villarejo, 2004). However, until quite recently, very little research had been reported that addressed how intervention programs have their effects, information that could be used to enhance programs and scale up support efforts. In 2003, NIH-GMS began to fund basic research designed to understand the processes and effects of intervention programs under the "Efficacy of Interventions Promoting Entry into Biomedical Research Careers" initiative. The first grants awarded are now entering the fourth and final year of funded support, and other projects have been added to the cluster. There are now eleven projects under way. Timely analysis and synthesis of these research findings would go far to maximize the utility of this research for NIH policy and decision makers. The present proposal seeks funding to support an annual conference ("Annual Conference to Accelerate Research to Practice"), which will bring together, for a two-day conference, the principle investigators and other key research personnel who are grantee on this cluster. (There are currently eleven such grantees with an expectation of adding up to six more each year, with four to six grantees finishing each year.) During the conference, each grantee group will present a progress report on the group's research activities with an emphasis on key findings during the past year. After all groups have presented the principle investigators will meet, and with the facilitation of an expert consultant, will analyze and synthesize the collective body of findings presented with the goal of identifying replicable and significant findings across groups. The consultant (to be chosen) will have high levels of expertise in (a) the literature on efforts to support underrepresented minority (URM) students, (b) support program design, and (c) social and behavioral science research methodology. Following the conference, the R13 principle investigator and the consultant will co-author a report to the NIH-GMS leadership.