Translational Research in Hypertension and Renal Biology

由于高血压和相关的肾脏和心血管疾病在路易斯安那州非常普遍，杜兰健康科学中心建立了一个卓越的高血压和肾脏中心，由于获得了COBRE奖的大力支持，该中心发展迅速。COBRE第一和第二阶段为16名初级教师提供了支持，其中7名获得了NIH的研究经费，19名博士后，12名研究生和29名医学生。此外，研究基础设施得到了分子、成像和分析核心的显著加强，拥有最先进的设施，以及为高血压和肾脏中心成员服务的转基因动物核心。对于第三阶段，长期目标是为所有研究人员提供一个丰富的环境，使他们能够保持全国竞争地位，并增加和加强杜兰大学研究人员在高血压、肾脏和心血管疾病方面的生物医学研究能力和基础设施。我们的长期目标将通过以下目标来实现：1)为维持第一和第二阶段开发的COBRE研究核心提供支持，这对继续进行中心的基础、临床和转化研究至关重要。2)加强杜兰健康科学中心在高血压、肾脏和血管生物学多学科领域的研究基础设施，从而维持和提高NIH和其他联邦资助的国家竞争力。3)鼓励和促进杜兰健康科学中心高血压及相关领域基础科学研究者和临床转化科学家之间的合作互动。4)通过支持研究试点项目、指导和培训组成部分，维持多学科合作研究环境。

Because hypertension and associated kidney & cardiovascular diseases are highly prevalent in Louisiana, Tulane Health Sciences Center established a Hypertension and Renal Center of Excellence, which has developed rapidly as a consequence of the substantial support received by the COBRE award. COBRE Phases I and II provided support for 16 junior faculty members, of which 7 received NIH research funding, 19 postdoctoral fellows, 12 graduate students, and 29 medical students. In addition, the research infrastructure was markedly enhanced by the Molecular, Imaging, and Analytical Core, with state-of-the art facilities, and Transgenic Animal Core serving members of the Hypertension and Renal Center. For Phase III, the long-term goals are to provide an enriched environment to all investigators so that they can maintain nationally competitive status and to augment and strengthen the biomedical research capacity and infrastructure for Tulane investigators in hypertension, renal and cardiovascular disease. Our long term goals will be achieved through the following aims: 1) To provide support for maintaining the COBRE research CORES developed during Phases I and II that are essential for continuing the center's basic, clinical, and translational research. 2) To enhance the research infrastructure at Tulane Health Sciences Center in the multidisciplinary area of hypertension, renal and vascular biology thus maintaining and increasing national competitiveness for NIH and other federal grants by our faculty investigators. 3) To encourage and facilitate collaborative interactions between basic science investigators and clinical translational scientists in hypertension and related areas at Tulane Health Sciences Center. 4) To sustain a collaborative multidisciplinary research environment by providing support for research pilot projects and mentoring and training components. Collectively, the results will contribute to an increased understanding of the multiple interaction leading to the pathophysiological derangements that lead to hypertension and associated kidney and cardiovascular diseases. This COBRE will continue to increase the number of competitive scientists in a disease specific area of extremely high biomedical relevance in this region.