CTSA K12 Program at Virginia Commonwealth University

新冠肺炎大流行突显了翻译研究对消灭人类的关键重要性 疾病，解决新的公共卫生威胁和促进健康，特别是在难以到达的社区， 面临着健康差距。为了迎接这些挑战，我们需要一支多元化、资源丰富、训练有素的 研究人员队伍，如NIH医生-科学家队伍报告所强调的那样。1 VCU莱特地区 临床与翻译科学中心(莱特地区CCTS)为中东部地区提供服务 弗吉尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州，包括农村和城市服务不足的社区，拥有丰富的经验 为经常面临健康差距的多样化患者社区提供服务。我们环境的性质决定了 推动发展一支随时准备迎接参与和服务挑战的研究队伍 不同的病人。莱特地区CCTS是提供翻译研究的枢纽 为学者在其职业生命周期中的培训和职业发展提供基础设施。此外, 赖特中心CCTS有一笔3200万美元的捐款，我们用它建立了第一个赖特学院 健康不平等项目学者。该计划支持来自不同背景的早期职业教师。 世卫组织致力于更好地了解我们的健康不平等的驱动因素并制定解决方案 社区。我们现有的合作伙伴机构为整个翻译行业的员工带来了培训经验 光谱，强调社区参与研究(东弗吉尼亚医学院(EVMS))， 信息学(老道明大学(ODU))和导师(弗吉尼亚州立大学(VSU)，HBCU)。 培训学者将研究观察转化为临床应用在我们独特的 社区是拟议的K12培训计划的优先事项。我们的节目将继续其承诺 为早期职业教师/晚期博士后研究员提供全面的过渡蓝图 来研究独立性。我们将从一批在这两方面都不同的早期职业科学家中招募学者 研究学科和人口统计学。通过与我们的UM1和RC2奖项相结合，K12学者将 参加创新和全面的计划，支持75%的时间用于学者 特定领域的专业知识，还提供授课、虚拟和体验式培训相结合的 翻译科学家的基本特征。 我们将通过以下具体目标实现目标： 目标1：通过全面、全面、 创新的、个性化的翻译科学培训。K12学者将担任翻译工作 临床前、临床和基于社区的研究，以改善所有社区的健康。 目标2：作为研究事业发展的机构资源，促进建立多样化的 通过内部和外部伙伴关系，建立临床和转化型研究人员社区。

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical importance of translational research to eradicate human disease, tackle emerging public health threats and promote health, especially in hard-to-reach communities that face health disparities. To take on these challenges, we need a diverse, well-resourced, and well-trained research workforce, as highlighted by the NIH Physician-Scientist Workforce report. 1 The VCU Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science (Wright Regional CCTS) serves a region in Central and Eastern Virginia and North Carolina that includes both rural and urban underserved communities and has vast experience serving a diverse community of patients who often face health disparities. The nature of our environment has driven the development of a research workforce that is prepared to meet the challenge of engaging and serving diverse patients. The Wright Regional CCTS serves as the hub for providing the translational research infrastructure for the training and career development of scholars through their professional life cycle. In addition, The Wright Center CCTS has a $32 million endowment with which we have established the first Wright Faculty Scholars in Health Disparities program. This program supports early career faculty from diverse backgrounds who are committed to better understanding the drivers and developing solutions to health inequities in our communities. Our existing partner institutions bring experience training the workforce across the translational spectrum with an emphasis on community engaged research (Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)), informatics (Old Dominion University (ODU)) and mentorship (Virginia State University (VSU), an HBCU). Training scholars to translate research observations to clinical application in our unique communities is a priority for the proposed K12 Training Program. Our program will continue its commitment to providing early career faculty/late-stage postdoctoral fellows with a comprehensive “blueprint” for transitioning to research independence. We will recruit scholars from a pool of early career scientists who are diverse in both research discipline and demographics. Through integration with our UM1 and RC2 awards, K12 scholars will be exposed to an innovative and comprehensive program that supports 75% committed time to scholar specific domain expertise but also provides a combination of didactic, virtual, and experiential training in fundamental characteristics of the translational scientist. We will achieve our goals through the following specific aims: Aim 1: Prepare early career translational researchers for research independence through comprehensive, innovative, and individualized training in translational science. K12 scholars will be positioned to translate preclinical, clinical, and community-based research to improving health of all communities. Aim 2: Serve as an institutional resource for research career development and facilitate the creation of a diverse community of clinical and translational researchers through both internal and external partnerships.