Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Diversity Program (PURDIP)

 描述(由申请人提供)：非洲裔美国人和拉美裔/西班牙裔美国人死于心脏病和中风的风险比美国其他任何种族都要高。这些民族还面临许多严重的遗传性血液疾病的风险，如镰状细胞病和地中海贫血，这些疾病只在少数人中流行。此外，他们比其他种族更容易患上哮喘等常见的呼吸道疾病。这些疾病中的许多都会影响心脏、肺和血液，这些都是匹兹堡大学前沿研究的重点。他们还提供了一个独特的平台，可以招募代表不足的少数族裔专业人员进入健康科学领域。重要的是，科学工作队伍的多样性促进了从所有种族中招募最有才华的研究人员，并提高了在临床试验中从不同背景招募受试者的能力，以共同帮助解决和消除健康差距。因此，我们将建立匹兹堡本科生研究多样性计划(PURDIP)，以培养下一代URM医生-科学家，以及基础和行为科学家，以帮助消除美国的健康差距。我们将通过融合严格的科学指导来实现这一目标 为对科学感兴趣的URM本科生提供富有同情心的指导和榜样，为他们接受高等教育做好准备。匹兹堡大学共有70名教职员工和来自心脏病学、血液学、睡眠、血管生物学、凝血和血栓形成、输血医学和再生医学等广泛学科的外部咨询委员会成员，可提供一系列基础、行为、转换和临床研究主题以及指导来实施该项目。培训将包括授课讲座、研讨会、工作坊、小组作业、实践研究和学员的陈述。提出了三个具体目标：a)提供关于生物医学、行为研究和健康差距的基础知识的密集教学和小组学习课程；b)通过丰富他们的尖端指导性研究经验来增强URM本科生注册MD/PhD和PhD项目的竞争力；c)帮助URM本科生掌握必要的关键技能，以驾驭研究生和其他卫生职业生涯的申请过程。该计划的所有组成部分都将不断得到评估，以达到促进健康相关研究多样性的最高标准。(摘要结束)

 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)