ACTIVITY 10: ADVANCEMENT IN RESEARCH INITIATIVE

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。研究进步倡议（ARI）的主要目标是与波多黎各大学医学院校园内外的不同机构研究单位密切合作，发展基础设施，以支持高质量的研究、管理研究资源和传播与研究有关的信息。为实现这一目标，我们确定了以下具体目标：建立一个基础设施服务单位，提供支助服务，促进数据分析、科学出版物和提案的编辑、知识产权的保护以及向研究界传播多样化的资助机会。2. 协调和最大限度地利用共享仪器，创建一个研究资源数据库，并保持最新的通信服务，以启动和/或扩大合作和伙伴关系。3. 发展师资和技术研究发展计划，建立机制奖励研究成果；促进健康差异研究；培训年轻的教师和研究生，使他们掌握在研究事业中取得成功所必需的生物伦理和生存技能，并建立一个关于当地成功研究者和潜在合作者的综合数据库。我们期望ARI将成为整合校园研究资源的焦点，并在发展新的合作和联盟以及确保最大限度地利用现有资源方面发挥重要作用。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The major goal of the Advancement in Research Initiative (ARI) was to work, in close collaboration with the different institutional research units within and outside the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, to develop the infrastructure to support high quality research, manage research resources and disseminate research-related information. To achieve this goal we identified the following specific aims: 1. To establish an infrastructure service unit that will provide support services that facilitated data analysis, editing of scientific publications and proposals, protection of intellectual property as well as dissemination of diversified funding opportunities to the research community. 2. To coordinate and maximize the use of shared instrumentation, create a research resources database, and maintain up-to-date communications services to initiate and/or expand collaborations and partnerships. 3. To develop a faculty and technical research development program that would establish a mechanism to reward research success; promote health disparities research; train young faculty and graduate students in the bioethical and survival skills necessary to be successful in a research career, and generate a comprehensive database of local successful investigators and potential collaborators. We expected that the ARI would become a focal point for integrating research resources on campus and will play an improtant role in developing new collaborations and alliances as well as assuring maximal utilization of available resources.