SFSU MBRS - RISE

MBRS-RISE计划的总体目标是提高学生的兴趣、技能和竞争力， 学生和教师在追求生物医学研究事业。我们提出的RISE计划的目标是 显著增加少数民族学生追求生物医学职业的人数，让他们参与一些 课程，研究和课外活动。SFSU招收了大量代表性不足的少数民族 学生，在每个主要民族类别的强大招生，并有杰出的奖励记录， 向少数民族学生提供大量学士和硕士学位。相当多的人已经离开了 进入生物医学研究的学士，硕士和博士水平。虽然许多人获得博士学位， 其他人则进入医学、牙科和兽医学校，后来参加临床研究。 旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学（SFSU）已被证明致力于培养代表性不足的学生 博士课程和生物医学职业，并已开发了一些联邦资助的少数民族 生物医学科学的增强计划。我们已经查明并解决了一些障碍， 这些本科生和研究生的少数民族学生在满足他们的目标，为未来的 生物医学科学SFSU对MBRS RISE计划的持续资助将使我们能够结合 我们的其他资助计划（例如MARC，MS/PhD Bridge，SCORE，RIMI，SFSU/UCSF癌症中心 协作），提供帮助大量人所需的基础设施和活动类型 学生克服这些障碍。已经制定了一套定义明确、逻辑有序的活动， 满足学生在其职业生涯的各个阶段的具体需求（高年级研究-积极和 硕士学位学生）。每个活动地址：1）学术课程的成就，2）学术 表现，3）发展科学和研究技能和能力，4）准备接受一个 博士课程。这些活动的结果将由SageFox Associates进行严格评估。 在旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学的MBRS-RISE计划是在我们的第三个5年周期的第四年。 基于137名RISE学生（BS + MS）成功进入博士课程和89名过去这些 RISE学生完成博士学位（27 BS + 62 MS）在过去2和当前周期，我们认为 计划是非常成功的。在此申请中，我们建议将MS学生的数量从20人扩大到20人。 30/年的增长率。鉴于我们的MS学生的成功，我们有越来越多的导师 无论是在SFSU和加州旧金山弗朗西斯科大学感兴趣的指导我们的上升学生在他们的 研究实验室进行MS论文研究。包括额外的高质量生物医学研究 来自UCSF的导师在过去已经发展成为一个强大的和富有成效的伙伴关系。有经验的 领导团队沿着的55名教师研究导师从加州大学旧金山分校和SFSU保证高质量的研究 教育计划为我们的学生上升。

The overall goal of the MBRS-RISE program is to increase the interest, skills, and competitiveness of students and faculty in pursuit of biomedical research careers. The goal of our proposed RISE program is to increase significantly the number of minority students pursuing biomedical careers by involving them in a number of curricular, research and co-curricular activities. SFSU enrolls large numbers of underrepresented minority students, with strong enrollment in each major ethnic category, and has an outstanding record of awarding significant numbers of baccalaureate and masters degrees to minority students. A significant number have gone on to enter biomedical research at the bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral level. While many earn PhD degrees, others enter medical, dental, and veterinary schools and later participate in clinical research. San Francisco State University (SFSU) has a proven commitment to preparing under represented students for PhD programs and biomedical careers and has developed a number of federally funded minority enhancement programs in the biomedical sciences. We have identified and addressed a number of barriers, which these undergraduate and graduate minority students face in meeting their goals for a future in the biomedical sciences. Continued funding of the MBRS RISE program at SFSU will allow us, in combination with our other funded programs (e.g. MARC, MS/PhD Bridge, SCORE, RIMI, SFSU/UCSF Cancer Center Collaborative), to provide the type of infrastructure and activities necessary to help significant numbers of students overcome these barriers. A set of well-defined and logically ordered activities has been developed to meet the specific needs of students at various stages of their careers (upper-division Research-Active and masters degree students). Each activity addresses: 1) achievement of academic program, 2) academic performance, 3) development of scientific and research skills and abilities, 4) preparation for acceptance to a PhD program. The outcomes of these activities will be critically evaluated by SageFox Associates. The MBRS-RISE program at San Francisco State University is in the fourth year of our third 5-year cycle. Based on the successful placement of 137 RISE students (BS + MS) into PhD programs and 89 past of these RISE students completing PhD degrees (27 BS + 62 MS) over the past 2 and current cycles, we consider the program to be highly successful. In this application, we propose to expand the number of MS students from 20 to 30/year on the RISE grant. Given the success of our MS students, we have a growing number of mentors both at SFSU and at the University of California San Francisco interested in mentoring our RISE students in their research laboratories to conduct MS thesis research. The inclusion of additional high quality biomedical research mentors from UCSF in the past has developed into a strong and productive partnership. The experienced leadership team along with the 55 faculty research mentors from UCSF and SFSU assure a high quality research education program for our RISE students.