Extramural Associates Research Development at University of Texas at Brownsville

德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔分校校外同事研究发展

• 批准号: 7755398
• 负责人: Luis V. Colom
• 金额: $ 7.48万
• 依托单位: UNIV/TEXAS BROWNSVILLE & SOUTHMOST COLL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-01-15 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7755398
• 关键词: Address; Administrator; Area; Award; Back; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; Brain; Climate; Communication; Communities; Development; Diagnosis; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Drops; Educational workshop; Environment; Expenditure; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Funding; Funding Mechanisms; Goals; Grant; Grant Review; Growth; Hippocampus (Brain); Hispanics; Institution; Measures; Minority; Minority-Serving Institution; Modeling; Monitor; Newsletter; Prevention; Productivity; Public Health; Publications; Qualifying; Reliance; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Support; Resources; Scientist; Series; South Texas; Stream; Structure; Support Groups; Texas; Time; Training; Training Support; Universities; Writing; college; design; human disease; improved; outreach; programs; public health relevance; research and development; symposium

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.

德克萨斯大学布朗斯维尔和德克萨斯州最南端学院（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，增加德克萨斯州南部社区的教育机会。在过去的16年里，这个西班牙裔服务机构（93%西班牙裔）已经取得了一些显着的进展，对发展竞争力的研究。此外，在过去的八年中，UTB/TSC迅速发展了引人注目的生物医学研究奋进。UTB/TSC独特的伙伴关系沿着其有限的资源和快速发展的研究企业，将需要一种非传统的、高度协调的和有效的研究管理方法。这项提案的长期目标是通过建立一个有效的结构，支持非少数群体供资机制开展竞争性研究，从而创造一个适当的行政和科学研究环境。该计划的目标侧重于改善：（1）研究管理和（2）科学环境，这反过来将提高出版物数量的生产力，外部赠款资金和支持新教师的招聘，从而促进向非少数民族资助机制的过渡。计划开展一系列活动以实现这两个目标，包括培训PI/EA成为变革的推动者，创建研究管理办公室以支持PI/EA的努力，全面评估当前的研究环境，增加培训机会（赠款编写和管理讲习班、赠款审查和遵守情况培训），改善沟通（季刊研究通讯，研讨会和专题讨论会沿着一系列推广研讨会），以及生物医学/行为研究的试点赠款机会。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。科罗姆博士也是一位活跃的研究科学家，研究大脑的隔海马功能。总的来说，通过选择这个高素质的实习生候选人和该机构对扩大研究的坚定承诺，我们预计EARDA计划将增强UTB/TSC的研究文化，从而促进向非少数民族资助机制的过渡。 公共卫生关系：EARDA提案的总体目标是加强机构研究文化（行政和科学），以扩大研究能力（特别强调建立与人类疾病的原因，诊断，预防和治疗相关的研究计划）在这个西班牙裔服务机构。通过该计划，我们将通过重点改善的方法在研究管理和科学界之间建立桥梁：（1）研究管理和（2）UTB/TSC的科学环境。由于UTB/TSC由圣安东尼奥以南进行生物医学研究的最强科学家组成，改善研究管理和科学环境将提高UTB/TSC的生物医学研究能力，从而深刻影响南德克萨斯州的公共卫生。