MBRS IMSD at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MBRTI)

描述（由申请人提供）：这是我们的项目，少数民族生物医学研究人员培训计划（MBRTI）的更新资助提案，该计划在过去三年中实施，一年前增加了本科部分。该提案包含了一些变化，以响应我们在实施MBRTI方面的经验，并希望将我们的努力集中在为未被充分代表的少数民族学生提供大学预科到博士水平的管道，这些学生正在接受生物医学研究职业的培训。根据这份申请，我们建议通过我们的EXPRESS项目招收和提供(a) 160-200名本科一年级和大二的少数民族学生（40- 50人/年）的研究经验，(b)在我们的GRA博士项目中，为至少32名博士水平的少数民族学生（8人/年）提供5年的研究培训支持，其中一年来自MBRS， 4年来自MU部门和奖学金。我们的目标是确保这些学生，从新生到博士水平的学生，完成他们的生物医学科学学位，本科生继续他们的教育，以获得博士学位。基于我们在现有项目（本科EXPRESS和研究生/硕士水平的GRA项目）中学到的知识，我们期望通过各种网络和职业发展活动（研讨会和会议）以及他们将得到的实质性支持，我们将成功实现我们的目标。参与的专业有动物科学、生物化学、生物科学、化学、食品科学与营养、分子微生物与免疫学、生理学、兽医生物医学、兽医病理生物学。所有的教师导师在指导少数族裔学生的研究经验方面都有丰富的经验，而且几乎所有人都有令人兴奋的研究，其中一些是由NIH资助的。精简行政架构，由兽医学院管理GRA部分；EXPRESS项目由生物科学部的联合项目主任负责。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal funding proposal for our program, the Minority Biomedical Researchers Training Initiative (MBRTI), implemented during the past 3 years with an undergraduate component added a year ago. This proposal contains changes that respond to our experiences with implementing MBRTI and a desire to focus our efforts to develop a pre-college through doctoral level pipeline of underrepresented minority students being trained for biomedical research careers. With this submission, we propose to recruit and provide (a) research experiences for a total of 160-200 undergraduate freshmen and sophomore minority students (40- 50/year) through our EXPRESS Program, and (b) research training with five years of support--one year from MBRS, 4 years from MU departments and fellowships--for at least 32 doctoral level minority students (8/year) in our GRA doctoral program. Our objectives are to ensure that these students, from new freshmen to doctoral-level students, complete their degrees in the biomedical sciences, and that the undergraduates continue with their education to obtain a doctoral degree. Based upon what we learned with our current programs (undergraduate EXPRESS, and the graduate/master's level GRA program) we expect that we will succeed in achieving our objectives with the variety of networking and career development activities (workshops and conferences), and the substantial support they will receive. The departments participating are Animal Science, Biochemistry, Biological Science, Chemistry, Food Science & Nutrition, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Physiology, Veterinary Biomedical Science and Veterinary Pathobiology. All of the faculty mentors who have extensive experience with mentoring underrepresented minority students in research experiences, and nearly all have exciting research, some funded through NIH. The administrative structure is streamlined, with the GRA component administered by College of Veterinary Medicine; the EXPRESS Program by the Co-Program Director located in Biological Sciences.