Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Diversity Program (PURDIP)

匹兹堡本科生研究多样性计划（PURDIP）

• 批准号: 9017260
• 负责人: Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah
• 金额: $ 15.14万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9017260
• 关键词: Address; African American; American; Area; Asthma; Basic Science; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Biology; Biomedical Research; Blood; Blood Vessels; Cardiology; Cessation of life; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Clinical Trials; Coagulation Process; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Environment; Ethnic group; Faculty; Health; Health Occupations; Health Sciences; Heart; Heart Diseases; Hematological Disease; Hematology; Hispanic Americans; Housing; Immersion Investigative Technique; Inherited; Instruction; Interview; Latino; Lung; Lung diseases; Medical; Medical center; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; Mission; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Patients; Physicians; Population; Process; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Regenerative Medicine; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Risk; Schools; Science; Scientist; Services; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sleep; Sleep Disorders; Stroke; Students; Thalassemia; Thrombosis; Training; Training and Education; Transfusion; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; United States; Universities; Writing; abstracting; body system; career; career development; education research; ethnic disparity; experience; health disparity; high risk; high standard; higher education; improved; interest; lectures; medical schools; member; next generation; programs; role model; skills; success; summer research; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): African Americans and Latino/Hispanic Americans have a higher risk of death from heart disease and stroke than any other ethnic group in the US. These same ethnic groups are also at risk for many severe inherited blood disorders such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia, which are prevalent only in minority populations. Moreover, they are more likely than other ethnic groups to suffer common respiratory diseases such as asthma. Many of these diseases impact the heart, lung, and blood, which are the focus of cutting-edge research at the University of Pittsburgh. And they offer a unique platform to recruit underrepresented minority professionals into the health sciences. Importantly, diversity in the scientific workforce promotes the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all ethnic groups, and it improves the ability to recruit subjects from a diverse background in clinical trial, to collectively help to address and eliminate health disparity. Thus, we will establish the Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Diversity Program (PURDIP), to prepare the next generation of URM physician-scientists, and basic and behavioral scientists, to help to eliminate health disparity in the US. We will achieve this objective by blending rigorous scientific tutelage with compassionate mentoring and role modeling to URM undergraduates who have an interest in science to prepare them for higher education. A total of seventy faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, and External Advisory Board members from a broad group of disciplines including cardiology, hematology, sleep, vascular biology, coagulation and thrombosis, transfusion medicine, and regenerative medicine are available to provide an array of basic, behavioral, translational and clinical research topics, and mentoring to carry out this project. Training will incorporate didactic lectures, seminars, workshops, group homework, hands-on research and presentations by the trainees. Three specific aims are proposed; a) to provide an intensive didactic and group- study course in fundamentals of biomedical and behavioral research and health disparity, b) to enhance the competitiveness of URM undergraduates to enroll in MD/PhD and PhD programs by enriching their portfolios with cutting-edge mentored research experiences, c) to help URM undergraduate students master the critical skills needed to navigate the application process for graduate and other health profession careers. All components of this program will be continuously evaluated to attain the highest standards of promoting diversity in health related research. (End of Abstract)