The Iowa Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center

描述（由申请人提供）：爱荷华州妇女生殖健康研究职业发展中心，爱荷华州大学卡弗医学院妇产科系，是妇女生殖健康研究（WRHR）职业发展中心的杰出场所。该应用程序利用了以下具体优势：（1）特殊的研究环境和基础设施以及爱荷华州卡弗医学院在研究和教育方面的全国突出地位，（2）已经到位的年轻教师研究职业发展的成功模式，（3）在妇产科系和整个医学院建立和成功的妇女健康研究主题，（4）一个已经存在的战略研究计划，将被纳入WRHR中心，（5）一个经验丰富，高素质的首席研究员，金伯利莱斯利，医学博士。（科罗拉多大学前WRHR项目主任，AAOGF和RSDP学者），以及著名的科学家和教师Mario Ascoli博士，谁将担任研究主任，（6）一个令人印象深刻的干部的高级科学家和领导人从部门和整个学院谁将担任导师和顾问，（7）一个基础广泛的申请人池，从一个创新的迷你休假计划，以招聘从代表性不足的群体学者的重点招聘，和（8）非常强大的机构支持，这将有助于我们的成功。两个研究大片（基础和临床）和六个纲领性的主题，选择，因为爱荷华州在这些领域有世界一流的研究，是由爱荷华州WRHR大学的支持。研究主题是（1）癌症和激素，（2）生殖疾病的流行病学，（3）遗传学和基因组学，（4）激素和信号，（5）宿主防御，（6）高血压和血管。一个良好的综合WRHR计划，支持基础和临床流行病学调查已经到位。学者将受益于相关的教学课程沿着在整个机构最好的基础和临床实验室的强化培训。爱荷华州的大学提出WRHR的所有组成部分，以满足该计划的最终目标，培养一个成功的学术研究人员谁将擅长研究和扩大妇女的生殖健康知识的前沿进入未来的干部。 公众相关性：由于缺乏训练有素的医生科学家来加强这一重要科学领域的发现，妇女生殖健康研究受到阻碍。确保最佳生殖结果的研究对我们物种的生存至关重要。爱荷华州大学的妇女生殖健康研究职业发展中心现在正准备招募和培训该领域未来的医生调查员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Iowa Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center, the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Carver College of Medicine, the University of Iowa, is an outstanding site to house a Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Center. This application draws upon the following specific strengths: (1) the exceptional research milieu and infrastructure as well as the national prominence of the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in research and education, (2) a successful model of research career development for young faculty that is already in place, (3) established and successful research themes in women's health in the department of obstetrics and gynecology and throughout the college of medicine, (4) an already existing strategic research plan that will be integrated into the WRHR Center, (5) an experienced and highly qualified Principal Investigator, Kimberly Leslie, M.D. (former WRHR Program Director at the University of Colorado and an AAOGF and RSDP scholar), and an acclaimed scientist and teacher, Mario Ascoli, Ph.D., who will serve as the Research Director, (6) an impressive cadre of senior scientists and leaders from the department and throughout the college who will serve as mentors and advisors, (7) a broad based applicant pool from which to recruit with an emphasis on an innovative mini-sabbatical program to recruit scholars from underrepresented groups, and (8) very strong institutional support that will contribute to our success. Two research tracts (basic and clinical) and six programmatic themes, chosen because Iowa has world class research in these fields, are supported by the University of Iowa WRHR. The research themes are (1) cancer and hormones, (2) epidemiology of reproductive disorders, (3) genetics and genomics, (4) hormones and signaling, (5) host defense, and (6) hypertension and the vasculature. A well-integrated WRHR Program that supports both basic and clinical-epidemiologic investigation is in place. Scholars will benefit from pertinent didactic coursework along with intensive training in the finest basic and clinical laboratories throughout the institution. The University of Iowa proposed WRHR has all of the components to meet the ultimate goal of the program, to develop a successful cadre of academic investigators who will excel in research and expand the frontiers of knowledge in women's reproductive health going into the future. PUBLIC RELEVANCE: Women's reproductive health research has been stymied by a lack of trained physician scientists to enhance discovery in this important area of science. Research to ensure the best reproductive outcomes is critical to the survival of our species. The Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center at the University of Iowa is now poised to recruit and train the physician investigators of the future in this field.