Annual Grantees Meeting for Research on Interventions that Promote Research Caree

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议继续举办为期两天的年度会议，以促进研究人员之间的讨论，这些研究人员通过研究了解和告知促进生物医学和行为科学计划学生研究事业的干预措施，以及NIGMS-MORE的工作人员。本次会议的主要目的是提供一个加速进展的反馈机制，使NIGMS-MORE能够：调整后续的拨款周期，确定干预项目要求变化的有希望的可能性，考虑实现增加少数民族学生选择并成功从事生物医学研究职业的替代机制。年会还有一个次要但相关的目标——完善研究。通过研究理解和告知干预措施倡议，资助的研究项目已转向具有纵向成分的前瞻性研究。在可能的情况下，还会对对照组或对照组进行跟踪。其结果是出现了丰富的数据来源，为培训计划提供了信息，并推动了这一研究领域的研究。除了项目报告和讨论，外部从业者将讨论会议内容和下一步。主持人也将有助于改进讨论。总之，这次会议提供了一个论坛，在这个论坛上，该领域的研究人员可以传播重要的发现，划定进一步研究的领域，并确定有可能帮助纠正少数民族在科学领域代表性不足的干预措施。会议的摘要将汇编成年度白皮书。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to continue a two-day annual conference that facilitates discussion among researchers funded through the Research to Understand and Inform Interventions that Promote the Research Careers of Students in the Biomedical and Behavioral Science initiative, and NIGMS-MORE staff. The primary objective of this conference is to provide an accelerated progress feedback mechanism that will allow NIGMS-MORE to: tailor subsequent grant cycle calls, identify promising possibilities for changes in intervention program requirements, consider alternative mechanisms for achieving the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority students choosing and succeeding in biomedical research careers. The annual meeting also serves a secondary, but related, objective -- to refine research. Through the Research to Understand and Inform Interventions initiative, the funded research projects have moved towards prospective studies with longitudinal components. When possible, control or comparison groups are also being followed. The result is the emergence of a rich source of data to inform training programs and advance research in this area of study. In addition to project reports and discussion, an outside practitioner will discuss conference content and next steps. A facilitator will also contribute towards the refinement of the discussion. In summary, this conference provides a forum in which researchers in this area can disseminate important findings, delineate areas for further study, and identify interventions that have the potential to aid in correcting the underrepresentation of minorities in the sciences. A summary of the meeting will be compiled into an annual white paper.