The Howard University SCORE Program Supplemental Grant

描述(由申请人提供)：本次补充申请的总体目标是促进霍华德大学(HU)培养一批新的初级生物医学科学家。从2002年8月1日开始，HU收到了Score计划的续订，该计划只包含六(6)个子项目。这六个项目代表了该计划对跨学科研究的重视，重点是前列腺癌的基因组方面和神经科学。SCORE计划的额外资金将使胡在这些重点领域建立核心教师核心。本申请包括常规(12)和试点(1)项目。提交的项目中有8个是在续签之前提交的项目的修订版；另外5个是新提交的项目，其中一个是作为试点编写的。代表的学科包括生物学、生物化学、化学、土木工程、微生物学、生理学、药理学和儿科学。霍华德大学SCORE项目的母公司赠款的目标有三个：(1)为人类基因组研究和神经科学目标领域的跨学科生物医学干部的持续发展和建立提供关键的机构支持，(2)提高SCORE教师的科学生产力，以及(3)改善对SCORE参与者和其他相关大学组成部分的项目数据收集、分析和评估。家长赠款的评估计划旨在评估与计划活动的质量和有效性有关的问题。本次申请资助的项目将被纳入正在进行的评估中，以保持计划的有效性。这些额外项目的影响将是HU研究生产率的提高，从而加强培训基础，在此基础上可以获得具有竞争力的学生培训上升计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this supplemental application is to further Howard University's (HU) development of a new group of junior biomedical scientists. HU received a renewal of its SCORE Program starting August 1, 2002, which contains only six (6) subprojects. These six projects represent the program's emphasis on interdisciplinary research focusing on genomic aspects of prostate cancer and the neurosciences. Additional funding of the SCORE Program will allow HU to build-up a nuclear core of faculty in these focus areas. This application contains both regular (12) and pilot (1) projects. Eight of the submitted projects are revised versions of prior submission in the renewal; the other five are new submissions, with one prepared as a pilot. The disciplines represented include biology, biochemistry, chemistry, civil engineering, microbiology, physiology, pharmacology and pediatrics. The goals of the Howard University SCORE program's parent grant are threefold: (1) to provide critical institutional support for the continued development and establishment of interdisciplinary biomedical cadres in the targeted areas of Human Genome Research and Neuroscience, (2) to improve the scientific productivity of SCORE faculty and (3) to improve programmatic data collection, analysis and assessment of SCORE participants and other associated University components. The parent grant's evaluation plan is designed to assess issues related to the quality and effectiveness of program activities. The projects funded in this application will be assimilated into this ongoing evaluation so as to maintain program effectiveness. The impact of these additional projects will be an increase in HU research productivity, and thereby an enhancement of the training base upon which a competitive RISE program for student training can be obtained.