MBRS SCORE Program at Morgan State University

描述（由申请人提供）：摩根州立大学（MSU）请求NIH/NIGMS支持更新我们的MBRS对持续卓越研究（SCORE）计划的支持。我们项目的目的是继续该机构和我们之前的SCORE项目的努力，以促进我们在该机构从事生物医学研究的教师作为成功的独立研究者的发展。因此，拟议计划的长期目标是：(1)维持一个多学科的研究环境，该环境整合了生物医学和生物化学学科的信息，这些信息集中在通常与城市环境相关的医疗保健差异上。这项研究将补充我们目前的教学和研究活动；(2)加强与其他研究密集型机构、行业、政府机构和民间/非营利组织建立合作伙伴关系的研究基础设施；(3)继续支持教师发展计划，以加强该机构的研究。MSU-SCORE计划的具体目标是：1)继续提高机构的研究能力，2)在新的四年SCORE计划资助期内，参与部门的研究教师的研究资助金额增加25%，以及3)增加生物系和化学系教师的演讲和出版物数量分别增加25%和50%。鉴于MBRS-SCORE计划的总体使命与该机构的目标一致，MSU-SCORE计划在实现其目标方面具有独特的定位，并且有大量从事生物医学研究的教师正在走向独立，以及参与院系其他MORE项目（MARC U*STAR和MBRS RISE）的少数族裔学生，他们需要有外部支持的研究导师，为他们提供高质量的实验室经验。我们希望，良好的研究经历对学员的影响不仅会增加他们进入研究生课程的竞争力，还会增加他们成功完成研究博士学位的竞争力。因此，MBRS-SCORE计划和提交的十个研究项目与我们对少数民族学生的培训是相互关联的，是摩根州立大学整体研究使命的一个组成部分。我们相信摩根州立大学MBRS SCORE项目的继续将进一步提高该机构实现其研究目标和目的的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Morgan State University (MSU) requests NIH/NIGMS support to renew our MBRS Support for Continuous Research Excellence (SCORE) program. The purpose of our program is to continue efforts initiated by the institution and in our previous SCORE program to facilitate the development of our faculty engaged in biomedical research at the institution as successful independent investigators. Therefore the long-term goals of proposed program are to: (1) sustain a multidisciplinary research environment that integrates information across Biomedical and Biochemical disciplines that is centered on the health-care disparities often associated with the urban environment. This research will complement our current teaching and research activities; (2) strengthen the research infrastructure that will forge collaborative partnerships with other research-intensive institutions, industries, government agencies and civic/nonprofit organizations; and (3) to continue the support of faculty development programs that will enhance research at the institution. The specific goals and objectives of the MSU-SCORE program are to: 1) to continue to enhance the research capabilities of the institution, 2) to increase, over the new 4-year SCORE program funding period, the amount of research grant support by research faculty in participating departments by 25%, and 3) to increase the number of presentations and publications by faculty members in the departments of Biology and Chemistry by 25% and 50%, respectively. The proposed MSU-SCORE program is uniquely positioned to accomplish its goal given that the overall mission of the MBRS-SCORE program is consonant with the goals of the Institution, the presence of a large pool of faculty engaged in biomedical research that are moving toward independence, and a significant pool minority students in other MORE programs (MARC U*STAR and MBRS RISE) in participating departments who are in need of research mentors with extramural support to provide them with quality laboratory experiences. The impact of a sound research experience for trainees we hope will not only increase their competitiveness to enter graduate programs leading to the research doctorate but to also successfully complete them. Therefore, the MBRS-SCORE program and the ten research projects submitted projects are interrelated with our training of minority students and is an integral component in Morgan State University's overall research mission. We believe that continuation of the MBRS SCORE program at Morgan State University will further enhance the institution's ability to achieve its research goals and objectives.