MBRS SCORE at The University of Texas-Pan American

描述(由申请者提供)：德克萨斯大学泛美分校MBRS-SCORE项目的目标是帮助支持我们校园内生物医学科学卓越研究基础设施的发展。目前的计划旨在通过申请研究资金来支持其一些最有才华的教职员工和学生研究人员的研究努力，从而促进这一过程。这一成绩申请得到了子项目提交数量的支持，1997至2001年间，子项目提交数量翻了一番以上。在这项提案中，20名教职员工将参与17个子项目。这些研究人员代表了创纪录数量的部门参与，汇集了来自生物、化学、社会学、心理学、护理、营养学、经济学、人类学和工程学系的教员。因此，UTPA的SCORE计划将从广泛和多样化的角度解决健康问题。子项目的主题从肉豆蔻菌素可能提供癌症保护的抗癌作用机制的基础研究、通过有机金属试剂合成药物的新方法、化学混合物的代谢毒性到影响卫生政策的广泛社会-行为问题以及影响健康结果并代表治疗和预防的关键途径的社会和生物因素的相互作用。 此外，拟议的SCORE申请的一个主要目标是增加参与生物医学科学的代表不足的群体的数量。这将通过扩大代表不足的研究人员和学生(主要是西班牙裔(拉丁裔))的机会，以及在校园内培养一种引人入胜的研究文化来实现，这将促进南得克萨斯州的高质量研究生教育。我们的地理位置和西班牙裔入学率很高，我们的许多学生都有移民农业背景，这为我们提供了成功完成这一努力的所有必要条件。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the MBRS-SCORE Program at The University of Texas Pan American is to help support the development of a research infrastructure of excellence in the biomedical sciences on our campus. The current program is designed to facilitate this process by requesting research funds to support the research endeavors of some of its most talented faculty, staff and student researchers. This SCORE application is bolstered by the number of subproject submissions, which more than doubled between 1997 and 2001. In this proposal twenty faculty members will be involved in seventeen subprojects. These investigators represent a record number of departmental involvement bringing together faculty from the departments of biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology, nursing, dietetics, economics, anthropology and engineering. Thus the SCORE program at UTPA will be addressing health problems from a broad and diverse perspective. Subprojects range in topic from basic research in the mechanism of anticarcinogenic effects of myristicin that may provide protection against cancer, novel synthesis of medicinal drugs via organometallic agents, toxicity of metabolism of chemical mixtures to broad social-behavioral concerns affecting health policy and the interaction of social and biological factors that influence health outcomes and represent critical avenues for treatment and prevention. Moreover, a primary objective of the proposed SCORE application is to increase the number of underrepresented groups participating in the biomedical sciences. This will be accomplished by expanding the opportunities for underrepresented researchers and students, mostly Hispanic (Latino), and by fostering an engaging research culture on campus that will promote quality graduate education in South Texas. Our geographical location and our high Hispanic enrollment with many of our students of a migrant-farmwork background provide us with all the necessary requisites to sucessfully fulIfill this endeavor.