ROCKY MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE BIOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT

这项申请提出了一个地区性的三州儿童健康研究中心 主要集中在发育生物学方面。该中心将作为一个 单一的综合设施。该中心将建立一个组织 澳大利亚大学儿科部门的框架 科罗拉多州、新墨西哥州和犹他州可以团结一致，加强 加强青年教师的科研培训和科研工作 发育生物学。发育生物学对多种疾病的影响 儿科内的子专科；本中心不会专注于任何器官 以系统为导向的子专业，而不是发展的基础生物学 以及它与临床实践的相关性。该计划的独特之处 包括：1)通过以下方式拓宽年轻教师的研究环境 结合三个机构的努力；2)将一个 一大批敬业的高级科学家，在关键领域拥有专业知识 研究领域：分子生物学、细胞生物学和综合生理学；3) 整合三个不同地区的儿科科室 在他们自身发展的各个阶段。各种现代生物学专业知识 年轻的研究人员可以很容易地获得技术， 不管自己的研究主题是什么。这样的协作安排 将确保一大批年轻的科学家可能会得到 中心，并在中心内引入竞争激烈的环境 用于选拔高素质和有前途的调查人员。独一无二的 通过以下方式实现调查人员和工作效率的客观性和评估 来自三所大学的教师代表。综合会议 研究规划会议将被用来鼓励 初级和高级教员在不同的研究领域从事相关研究 生物组织的水平和刺激研究的翻译 将想法转化为临床环境。三所大学的广泛支持将 大幅扩大资源，并潜在地扩大区域影响， 这个中心。

This application proposes a regional tri-state Child Health Research Center with a primary focus in developmental biology. The Center will be run as a single integrated facility. The Center will establish an organizational framework around which the Pediatric Departments at the Universities of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah can function cohesively to strengthen research training and foster research effort of young faculty in developmental biology. Developmental biology impacts upon a wide variety of subspecialties within pediatrics; this center will not focus upon any organ system oriented subspecialty but rather upon basic biology of development and its relevance to clinical practice. Unique aspects of the program include: 1) broadening the research environment for young faculty by combining efforts among the three institutions; 2) bringing together a large cadre of committed senior scientists with expertise in the critical areas of: molecular biology, cell biology and integrative physiology; 3) integrating three regional departments of pediatrics at quite different stages in their own development. A variety of modern biological expertise and technologies will be readily available to a young investigator, regardless of their own research theme. Such a collaborative arrangement will ensure a large pool of young scientists potentially supportable by the Center and introduces a highly competitive environment within the Center for selecting investigators of high quality and promise. A unique objectivity and assessment of investigators and productivity is achieved by representation of faculty from three Universities. Integrative conferences and research planning sessions will be used to encourage interaction among junior and senior faculty addressing related research areas at different levels of biologic organization and to stimulate translation of research ideas to clinical settings. The broad support from three Universities will substantially expand the resources, and potentially the regional impact, of this Center.