MBRS/IMSD Program at Rutgers-Newark

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是对计划公告PAR-00-022的回应，以继续罗格斯大学纽瓦克分校的MBRS-IMSD计划。目前，我们正在开始我们的第十九年的持续资助。目前的建议是保持现有的MBRS-IMSD教师，并增加五名教师，共16名教师。 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。建议继续实施我们的MBRS-IMSD计划的主要目标是：1）增加合格申请人进入该计划的数量，2）提高学习成绩，从而提高学生在我们计划中的竞争力，3）增加进入生物医学研究职业的学生数量，以及4）不断提高我们的MBRS计划对参与者需求的响应能力。提案中规定了实现这些目标的具体目标和方法。 到目前为止，我们的MBRS计划的生产力包括16个博士学位，18个硕士学位，71个学士学位和4个博士后。我们提出了几种保持和提高生产力水平的方法。一个显着的改善提供了职业顾问，谁一直在捕捉潜在的问题和与学生合作，以保持他们在该计划的进展是无价的。他们和她已经发现并解决了许多问题。通过这种咨询，出现了需要在科学/技术写作的具体培训。满足这一需要将是本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.