COBRE: CORE A: ADMIN CORE; EXPANDING U OF ALASKA HEALTH RESEARCH CAPABILITY

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 Cobre的总体目标是发展一个可持续的、由NIH资助的研究中心，专门专注于确定与慢性病和肥胖症相关的文化行为、营养和遗传风险/保护因素。成就包括： 答：完成了三个新社区的数据收集，使我们能够实现招募1000名参与者的目标。 B.提交一份成功修订的科布雷竞争性续签申请。有了这笔新的资金，我们将扩大我们的工作，为我们的初级调查人员解决少数族裔健康差距的R系列应用提供坚实的基础。 阿拉斯加大学和阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯大学在等待NCRR关于我们退款的决定期间，为继续建立该中心提供了大量的过渡性资金。这表明了该大学对维持该中心的持续承诺。 我们的第一个调查员正在等待R01的资助，并且即将从科布雷大学毕业。 E.开始招聘营养学教员。 F.新的调查人员的子项目已经获得了IRB的批准，使他们能够比第一次拨款更早地进入社区。这应该会增加他们收集数据、发布调查结果并比过去更早申请有竞争力的独立调查人员拨款的能力。 启动一个轮流的校长教授职位，每次将资深学者带到中心一个月，极大地增加了我们的指导资源。 CANHR调查人员的工作效率显著提高。我们的一篇手稿被一本影响力很大的期刊《肥胖》接受。《环极健康杂志》的一期特刊介绍了我们的研究，帮助该中心在环极健康研究小组中确立了地位。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The overall goal of this COBRE is the development of a sustainable, NIH-funded research center specifically focused on identifying the cultural-behavioral, nutritional, and genetic risk/protective factors associated with chronic diseases and obesity. Accomplishments include: A. Completion of data collection in three new communities, allowing us to achieve our goal of recruiting 1000 participants. B. Submission of a successful revised competitive renewal for the COBRE. With this new funding we will expand our work to provide a solid basis for R-series applications by our junior investigators that address minority health disparities. C. The University of Alaska and University of Alaska Fairbanks provided significant bridge funding to continue the center while awaiting a decision from NCRR on our refunding. This demonstrates the on-going commitment of the university to sustaining the center. D. Our first investigator has pending R01 funding and is graduating from the COBRE. E. Initiation of the recruitment for a nutrition faculty member. F. New investigators already have IRB approvals for their subprojects, providing them with access to communities earlier than in the first grant. This should increase their ability to gather data, publish findings and apply for competitive independent investigator grants sooner than in the past. G. Initiation of a rotating President's Professor position that brings senior scholars to the center for a month at a time, significantly increasing our mentoring resources. Productivity of CANHR investigators has significantly increased. One of our manuscripts was accepted in a high impact journal, Obesity. A special issue of the Journal of Circumpolar Health featured our study, helping establish the center's place among circumpolar health research groups.