BORDER BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: ADMINISTRATION

这个子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供的资源的许多研究子项目之一。子项目和调查员(PI)可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可能会出现在其他CRISE条目中。列出的机构是针对中心的，而不一定是针对调查员的机构。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校提议继续支持其边境生物医学研究中心(BBRC)，以促进对美国与墨西哥边境拉美裔占多数的人口中普遍存在的病理生物学问题的基础研究。该机构将重点放在(1)传染病、(2)毒理学和(3)神经科学和代谢紊乱领域的研究，并设立了与这三个领域相对应的单位。每项活动都将是一项单独的活动，涉及生物科学和心理学系的20名参与者。其中四名参与者是新招聘的教职员工，因为他们有潜力建立独立资助的研究项目。拟议的资金旨在将生物医学研究的数量和质量提高到在赠款支持方面具有国家竞争力的水平。BBRC将增加三个研究单位的教职员工队伍，使其达到临界值。将加强在细胞培养、DNA测序和分析、分析细胞学、生物分子表征和分离以及统计咨询方面的多用户研究设施，并将继续提供基础设施支持。BBRC的目标是成为边境地区流行疾病病理机制研究的卓越中心，将人类健康的流行病学观点和生物统计学的应用与基础生物医学研究相结合。BBRC将为生物科学的博士项目提供强大的研究基础设施，这样德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校就可以成为拉美裔和其他代表性不足的少数族裔进入美国生物医学研究主流的主要切入点。

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 University of Texas at El Paso proposes continuing support for its Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC), to promote basic research on pathobiological problems prevalent in the Hispanic-majority population along the United States border with Mexico. The institution has assigned priority to research in the fields of (1) infectious diseases, (2) toxicology, and (3) neuroscience and metabolic disorders and has establised units corresponding to these three fields. Each will constitute a separate activity involving 20 participants from the Department of Biological Sciences and Psychology. Four of the participants are new faculty members recruited for their potential to establish independently-funded research programs. The proposed funding is designed to enhance the quantity and quality of biomedical research to a nationally competitive level for grant support. The BBRC will increase the cadre of faculty to reach critical mass in the three research units. Multi-user Research Facilities in cell culture, DNA sequencing and analysis, analytical cytology, biomolecular characterization and separation, and statistical consulting will be enhanced and will continue to provide infrastructural support. The goal of the BBRC is to become a center of excellence for research on pathological mechanisms of disease prevalent in the Border region, to integrate the epidmiological perspective on human health and the applications of biostatistics with basic biomedical research. The BBRC will provide a strong research infrastructure to the doctoral program in the Biological Sciences, so that the University of Texas at El Paso can serve as a amajor point of entry for Hispanics and other underrepresented minorities into the biomedical research mainstream of the nation.