Cal State LA Biomedical PREP

描述(由申请人提供)：加州州立大学洛杉矶分校(加州州立大学洛杉矶分校)是一所少数族裔院校，提供硕士学位作为其最高学位，并在生物医学科学领域成功发展美国少数族裔的职业生涯方面有着长期的成功传统，建议更新其成功的生物医学学士学位后研究教育计划(BioMed Prep)。拟议和扩大的计划寻求将有能力的少数族裔个人的人才留在生物医学人力资本管道中，否则他们的能力可能会被生物医学研究所失去。其结果是，该项目的参与者随后将进入研究生课程，最终在主要研究机构获得博士学位。在第一个资助期，超过80%的毕业后学生在全国顶尖学府攻读生物医学或行为学博士学位。我们提议的更新项目有两个重要的扩展方式：我们将把少数族裔预科学者的数量从目前的每年6人增加到12人，并通过与两个主要的生物医学研究机构合作，南加州大学和希望/贝克曼城市 将为我们的学生提供更多的研究、培训和教育场所。这12名预备学者将受雇于加州州立大学洛杉矶分校，通过一个旨在提高他们的研究技能、增强他们在生物医学科学方面的学术背景、使他们融入更广泛的南加州生物医学研究社区、使他们接触到广泛的生物医学科学和科学家、以及加强他们直接进入博士项目或在攻读博士学位的途中进入MS项目的职业发展计划，并为他们在生物医学科学领域的成功研究生涯奠定基础。 我们的目标是增加少数族裔博士级别的生物医学和行为科学家的数量， 预期许多人将有动力解决这些问题，这些问题对少数族裔人口造成了不成比例的影响，并导致美国人之间的健康差距。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a minority institution offering the MS as its highest degree, and with a long tradition of success in developing the careers of minority Americans in the biomedical sciences, proposes to renew its successful Biomedical Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (BIOMED PREP). The proposed and expanded program seeks to keep in the biomedical human capital pipeline the talents of capable minority individuals whose abilities might otherwise be lost to biomedical research. The result is that the participants in this program will subsequently enter graduate programs leading to the PhD at major research institutions. In the first grant period, over 80% of participating post-baccalaureate students proceeded to biomedical or behavioral PhD programs at top institutions nationwide. The project we propose for renewal is expanded in two significant ways: we will increase the number of minority PREP Scholars from the current six to 12 per year, and by partnering with two major biomedical research institutions, the University of Southern California and The City of Hope/Beckman Research Institute, will provide additional research training and education sites for our students. The 12 PREP Scholars will be employed as technicians by Cal State LA while undergoing career advancement through a post-baccalaureate program designed to increase their research skills; enhance their academic background in the biomedical sciences; integrate them into the broader Southern California biomedical research community; expose them to a broad range of biomedical sciences and scientists; and enhance their entry directly into PhD programs, or to MS programs en route to the PhD; and establish the foundation for their successful research careers in the biomedical sciences. We aim to increase the number of minority PhD-level biomedical and behavioral scientists, with the expectation that many will be motivated to work on those problems that disproportionately affect minority populations and have resulted in health disparities among Americans.