ACTIVITY #5 - ADVANCEMENT IN RESEARCH INITIATIVE

该子项目是利用 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 研究计划（ARI）的主要目标是与波多黎各医学科学校园内外的不同机构研究单位密切合作，开发基础设施，以支持高质量的研究，管理研究资源和传播研究相关信息。 为实现这一目标，我们确定了以下具体目标： 1. 设立一个基础设施服务单位，提供支持服务，以促进数据分析、编辑科学出版物和建议、保护知识产权，以及向研究界提供多样化的资助机会。 2. 协调和最大限度地利用共享仪器，创建研究资源数据库，并保持最新的通信服务，以启动和/或扩大合作和伙伴关系。 3. 发展教师和技术研究发展，将建立一个机制，奖励研究成功;促进健康差距研究;培训年轻的教师和研究生在生物伦理和生存技能，必要的是在研究生涯中取得成功，并产生一个全面的数据库，当地成功的调查人员和潜在的合作者。 我们预见，ARI将成为整合校园研究资源的焦点，并将在发展新的合作和联盟以及确保最大限度地利用现有资源方面发挥重要作用。

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 major goal of the Advancement in Research Initiative (ARI) is to work, in close collaboration with the different institutional research units within and outside the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, to develop the infrastructure to support high quality research, manage research resources and disseminate research-related information. To achieve this goal we have identified the following specific aims: 1. To establish an infrastructure service unit that will provide support services that facilitate data analysis, editing of scientific publications and proposals, protection of intellectual property as well as dissemination of diversified funding opportunities to the research community. 2. To coordinate and maximize the use of shared instrumentation, create a research resources database, and maintain up-to-date communications services to initiate and/or expand collaborations and partnerships. 3. To develop faculty and technical research development that will establish a mechanism to reward research success; promote health disparities research; train young faculty and graduate students in the bioethical and survival skills necessary to be successful in a research career, and generate a comprehensive database of local successful investigators and potential collaborators. We foresee that the ARI will become a focla point for integrating research resources on campus and will play an important role in developing new collaborations and alliances as well as assuring maximal utilization of available resources.