MBRS/IMSD Program at Rutgers-Newark

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案是对罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校继续实施MBRS-IMSD项目的计划公告PAR-00-022的回应。目前，我们正在开始我们持续资助的第十九个年头。目前的建议是保留现有的MBRS-IMSD教职员工，并增加5名教职员工，总数为16名教职员工。 我们建议为10名本科生和11名研究生提供培训和支持，使他们能够进行原创生物医学研究。继续我们的MBRS-IMSD项目的主要目标是：1)增加符合条件的申请者进入该项目的数量；2)提高学业成绩，从而提高我们项目学生的竞争力；3)增加进入生物医学研究职业生涯的学生数量；4)不断提高我们的MBRS项目对参与者需求的响应能力。实现这些目标的具体目标和方法在提案中有明确规定。 到目前为止，我们的MBRS项目已经产生了16个博士学位、18个硕士学位、71个学士学位和4个博士后学位。我们提出了几种保持和提高生产力水平的方法。职业辅导员的加入带来了显著的改善，他在发现潜在问题和与学生合作保持他们在项目中的进步方面发挥了宝贵的作用。他们和她发现并解决了许多问题。通过这种咨询，出现了对科学/技术写作方面的具体培训的需要。满足这一需求将是这项提案的一个主要目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is in response to Program Announcement PAR-00-022 to continue the MBRS-IMSD Program at Rutgers University-Newark. Currently, we are beginning our nineteenth year of continuous funding. The current proposal is to maintain the existing MBRS-IMSD faculty and to add five additional faculty members for a total of 16 faculty members. We propose to provide training and support for ten undergraduate students and eleven graduate students to enable them to perform original biomedical research. The main goals of the proposed continuation of our MBRS-IMSD program are: 1) to increase the number of qualified applicants into the Program, 2) to improve the academic performance and, thereby, the competitiveness of the students in our program, 3) to increase the number of students entering a career in biomedical research, and 4) to continually improve our MBRS program's responsiveness to the needs of its participants. The specific objectives and methods to achieve these goals are specified in the proposal. The productivity of our MBRS program until now has included the production of 16 PhD degrees, 18 master's degrees, 71 bachelor's degrees, and four post-doctorates. We propose several means of maintaining and increasing the level of productivity. A significant improvement was provided with the addition of the career counselor, who has been invaluable in catching potential problems and working with the students to maintain their progress in the program. They and she have identified and solved many problems. What has emerged through this counseling is the need for specific training in scientific/technical writing. Meeting this need will be a major objective of this proposal.