Research Support for Biomedical Careers at CCNY

描述（由申请人提供）：CCNY的RISE计划支持本科生，硕士生和博士生。自上一个资助期以来，我们在毕业的本科生和硕士生毕业后进入博士课程方面取得了重大进展。博士生的及时毕业和毕业生的就业安置仍然是RISE计划的重要组成部分。我们认为，在促进学生进入博士课程的进展反映了一个更严格的候选人选拔过程，筛选出谁已经致力于医学事业或职业生涯在其他领域无关的生物医学研究的学生。因此，加强候选人甄选和提名程序是本提案中RISE方案的基石之一。我们还将采取比以往更积极主动的办法征聘候选人。与过去一样，学生将被安置在CCNY的实验室，在那里他们将在化学，生物化学，生物学，物理学和地球科学系的教师的指导下开展研究项目。然而，在下一个供资期间，由于纽约城市大学最近采取了一项举措，发展科学基础设施，特别是在迅速扩大的结构生物学领域，学生将有机会获得大量的导师。谁选择在结构生物学项目工作的学生将有机会在新建的纽约结构生物学中心的生物分子的结构分析国家的最先进的仪器。此外，城市学院最近与纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心建立了合作伙伴关系，为学生在国际公认的癌症中心获得癌症研究的实践经验创造了新的机会。与合作伙伴关系相结合，城市学院开发了癌症生物学和生物技术的新课程，这将激发人们对癌症研究的更多认识和兴趣。其中包括一门独特的社会营销课程，让学生与哈莱姆的少数民族社区直接互动，以解决与癌症发病率和预防有关的健康差距问题。由于RISE是一个少数民族服务计划，我们预计这将使学生以更个人的方式连接到该领域。我们预计，这也将开辟一个新的行为研究领域，可以在未来作为RISE计划的常规部分。 公共卫生相关性：癌症和许多其他疾病不成比例地影响少数群体，导致疾病发生率和治疗结果方面的差异。RISE计划通过培训少数民族科学家和促进他们进入生物医学研究领域来帮助解决这些健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The RISE program at CCNY supports undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. Since the previous funding period we have made significant progress in graduating undergraduates and masters students who entered doctoral programs after graduation. Graduation of doctoral students in a timely manner and job placement of the graduates remains a strong part of the RISE program. We believe that the progress in promoting of students into doctoral programs reflects a more stringent candidate selection process to screen out students who are already committed to medical careers or careers in other fields unrelated to biomedical research. For this reason, strengthening the processes of candidate selection and advisement is one of the cornerstones of the RISE program in the present proposal. We will also institute a more proactive approach to candidate recruitment than has been true before. As in the past, students will be placed in laboratories at CCNY where they will carry out research projects under the mentorship of faculty in the departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Physics and Earth Science. However, in the next funding period students will have access to a greatly enhanced pool of mentors owing to a recent initiative by the City University of New York to develop infrastructure in the sciences, particularly in the rapidly expanding area of structural biology. Students who choose to work on projects in structural biology will have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the newly constructed New York Structural Biology Center. In addition, City College has recently established a partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that has created new opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in cancer research at an internationally recognized cancer center. In conjunction with the partnership, City College has developed new courses in cancer biology and biotechnology that will spur greater awareness of, and interest in, cancer research. Among these is a unique course in social marketing that involves students in direct interaction with the minority community in Harlem to address issues of health disparities relating to cancer incidence and prevention. Since RISE is a minority serving program we anticipate that this will allow students to connect to the field in a more personal way. We anticipate that this will also open a new area of behavioral research that can be incorporated as a regular part of the RISE program in the future. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Cancer, and many other diseases disproportionately affect minority populations which results in disparities with regard to both disease incidence and treatment outcomes. The RISE program helps to address these health disparities by training minority scientists and promoting their entry into careers in biomedical research.