Morehouse School of Medicine Center of Excellence

莫尔豪斯医学院（MSM）是一所历史悠久的黑人机构，成立于1975年，招收和培训少数族裔和其他学生，成为医生、生物医学科学家和公共卫生专业人员，致力于满足服务不足人群的初级卫生保健需求。在其相对短暂的历史中，MSM作为规模较小的私立医学院，在培养少数民族医生和科学家方面取得了特别的成功，已经成为医学教育的领导者。随着男同性恋者的发展和进入21世纪，它准备在专注于破坏少数民族人口的健康差距的研究中提供同样的奉献精神和领导地位，因为它在临床护理和教育领域表现出来。该机构战略计划的总体研究目标是维持和加强高质量的研究环境，促进对严重影响服务不足人口的疾病进行研究。尽管MSM已经为其规模和年龄的机构建立了相对强大的研究基础设施，但预计这些资产将随着时间的推移而贬值和/或过时。研究捐赠奖将允许男同性恋者和其他为少数群体服务的机构建立机制，通过这些机制，他们可以开始建立捐赠和吸引私人资源，而不是几乎完全依赖联邦资金。该提案的具体目标是：1)通过为支持离散的研究领域提供永久的资源来留住现有的杰出学者；2)招募“磁铁”调查员，他们有能力担任专注于健康差异，特别是癌症研究的研究项目的主任；3)通过确保持续的资金来源来维持和增强研究企业的增长和活力，这些资金来源将为支持研究基础设施提供必要的资源；4)为开发最高质量的研究生课程（博士和公共卫生硕士）提供支持，以补充MSM的各种研究重点。

The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is a historically black institution founded in 1975 to recruit and train minority and other students as physicians, biomedical scientists and public health professionals committed to the primary health care needs of the underserved. In its comparatively brief history MSM as s private medical school of small size has already distinguished itself as a leader in medical education with particular success in training minority physicians and scientists. As MSM has matured in its development and moves into the 21' century, it is prepared to provide the same dedication to excellence and leadership in research focused on health disparities ravaging minority populations as it has manifested in the areas of clinical care and education. The overall research goal of the institution's strategic plan is to maintain and strengthen a high quality research environment that fosters conducting research on diseases that disproportionately affect underserved populations. Although MSM has established a relatively robust research infrastructure for an institution of its size and age, it is anticipated that these assets will depreciate and/or become obsolete over time. A research endowment award will allow MSM and other such minority- serving institutions to establish mechanisms by which they can began building endowments and attracting private sources rather than a near total reliance on federal funding. The specific aims of this proposal are: 1) to retain existing preeminent scholars by providing a perpetual resource for support of discrete areas of investigation; 2) to recruit "magnet" investigators) who are capable of serving as Directors of research programs focused on health disparities, particularly cancer research; 3) to maintain and enhance the growth and vitality of the research enterprise by securing a continuous source of funds that will provide resources necessary to support the research infrastructure and 4) to provide support toward developing graduate programs (Ph.D. and MPH) of the highest quality that will complement MSM's various foci of research.