Extramural Associates Research Development at University of Texas at Brownsville

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔分校和德克萨斯最南端学院（UTB/TSC）于1991年建立了独特的合作伙伴关系，以最大限度地利用资源并增加德克萨斯州南部社区的教育机会。在过去的16年里，这个为西班牙裔服务的机构（93%是西班牙裔）在发展竞争性研究方面取得了一些显著进展。此外，在过去的八年中，UTB/TSC迅速发展了显著的生物医学研究努力。UTB/TSC的独特伙伴关系以及其有限的资源和快速发展的研究事业将需要一种非传统的、高度协调的和有效的研究管理方法。这项建议的长期目标是通过发展一种有效的结构来创造一个适当的行政和科学研究环境，这种结构将支持来自非少数资助机制的竞争性研究。该计划的目标集中于改善：(1)研究管理和(2)科学环境，这将反过来提高出版数量、外部资助资金和支持新教师招聘的生产力，从而促进向非少数民族资助机制的过渡。为实现这两个目标，计划开展一系列活动，包括培训项目负责人/项目评估处，使其成为变革的推动者，建立一个研究行政办公室，以支持项目负责人/项目评估处的工作，全面评估当前的研究环境，增加培训机会（拨款写作和管理讲习班、拨款审查和合规培训），改善沟通（季度研究通讯、研讨会和专题讨论会以及外展研讨会系列），以及生物医学/行为研究的试点资助机会。PI/EA提名人Luis Colom，医学博士，博士自2001年以来一直受雇于UTB/TSC。他目前是生物医学研究中心的主任，并在生物医学研究项目的整体发展中发挥了重要作用。科罗姆博士也是一名活跃的研究科学家，研究大脑的隔海马体功能。总的来说，通过选择这名高素质的实习生候选人，以及该机构对扩大研究的坚定承诺，我们预计EARDA计划将加强UTB/TSC的研究文化，从而促进向非少数族裔资助机制的过渡。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Texas Brownsville and Texas Southmost College (UTB/TSC) entered into a unique partnership in 1991 to maximize resources and increase educational opportunities for the communities of South Texas. During the last sixteen years, this Hispanic-serving institution (93% Hispanic) has made some remarkable progress towards developing competitive research. Additionally, during the last eight years UTB/TSC has rapidly developed a noticeable biomedical research endeavor. UTB/TSC's unique partnership along with its limited resources and fast developing research enterprise will require a non-traditional, highly coordinated, and efficient approach to research administration. The long-term goal of this proposal is to create an appropriate administrative and scientific research environment through the development of an efficient structure that will support competitive research from non-minority funding mechanisms. The objectives of this program focus on improving the: (1) research administration and (2) scientific environment that will in turn boost productivity in publication numbers, external grant funding and support the recruitment of new faculty and thus facilitating the transition to non-minority funding mechanisms. A series of activities are planned to achieve both objectives including training of the PI/EA to become an agent of change, the creation of a research administration office to support the PI/EA's effort, a thorough assessment of the current research climate, increased training opportunities (grant writing and management workshops, grant reviews, and compliance training), improved communications (quarterly research newsletter, seminars and symposia along with an outreach seminar series), and pilot grant opportunities in biomedical/behavioral research. The PI/EA nominee, Luis Colom, M.D., Ph.D has been employed at UTB/TSC since 2001. He is presently the Director of the Center for Biomedical Studies and has been instrumental in the overall growth of the biomedical research programs. Dr. Colom is also an active research scientist studying septo-hippocampal functions of the brain. Overall, through the choice of this highly qualified trainee candidate and the strong commitment of the institution to expand research, we anticipate that the EARDA program will enhance the research culture at UTB/TSC and thus facilitate the transition to non-minority funding mechanisms. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The overarching goal of this EARDA proposal is to strengthen the institutional research culture (administrative and scientific) in order to expand the research capacity (with a special emphasis on building research programs related to the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and cure of human diseases) at this Hispanic-serving institution. Through this program we will build a bridge between the research administration and the scientific community through a focused approach on improving: (1) research administration and (2) scientific environment at UTB/TSC. Since UTB/TSC comprises the strongest group of scientists performing biomedical research south of San Antonio, improving the research administration and scientific environment will enhance the biomedical research capabilities at UTB/TSC and thus deeply impacting South Texas public health.