SCORE Project at Meharry Medical College

描述(由申请人提供)：梅哈里医学院SCORE计划的长期目标是帮助提高学校研究企业相对于美国其他健康科学中心的竞争地位。该计划旨在创造一个研究环境，在这种环境中，教师将提高他们的研究技能和能力，以高效地进行高质量的研究，通过同行评议的出版物和在全国会议上的演讲来传播他们的研究，并为独立的外部研究资金竞争更大的成功。最后，本成绩申请中正在进行和提出的研究项目将帮助该机构执行其使命，开展基础、临床和应用研究，特别侧重于对少数民族人口造成不成比例影响的疾病和疾病。 拟议的延续计划的修订的具体目标是：1)提高MBRS调查人员发表的同行评议论文的科学生产率，从每三年约四篇论文(拨款年度28-30)增加到平均每三年六篇论文(拨款年份32-34)，以及2)到34年前，将获得调查员发起的赠款的比例从与SCORE计划相关的研究人员的10%增加到20%。 这项相互竞争的延续申请要求支持19个常规研究项目和7个试点项目。项目来自医学院解剖学和生理学、生物化学、家庭和预防医学、微生物学、药理学和精神病学系，以及牙科学院。因此，这些项目侧重于广泛的与健康有关的问题，包括癌症、镰状细胞疾病、信号和转导机制、口腔健康、包括艾滋病毒/艾滋病在内的传染病和神经科学。目前，该计划包括18个常规项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-range goal of the SCORE Program at Meharry Medical College is to assist in improving the competitive status of the school's research enterprise relative to other health science centers in the United States. The program seeks to create a research environment wherein faculty will improve their research skills and capabilities to efficiently conduct high quality research, to disseminate their research through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at national meetings, and to compete with greater success for independent extramural research funds. Finally, research projects ongoing and proposed in this SCORE application will assist the institution in its mission to conduct basic, clinical and applied research with special emphasis on diseases and conditions that disproportionately affect ethnic minority populations. The revised specific aims of the proposed continuation program are: 1) to increase the scientific productivity in terms of peer reviewed publications by MBRS investigators from approximately four papers per three years (grant years 28-30) to an average of six papers per three years (grant years 32-34), and 2) to increase the acquisition of investigator initiated grants from 10% to 20% of the investigators associated with the SCORE program by year 34. This competing continuation application requests support for nineteen regular research projects and seven pilot projects. Projects are submitted from the School of Medicine departments of Anatomy and Physiology, Biochemistry, Family and Preventive Medicine, Microbiology, Pharmacology, and Psychiatry, as well as from the School of Dentistry. Thus the projects focus on a broad spectrum of health related issues including cancer, sickle cell disease, signaling and transduction mechanisms, oral health, infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS and neuroscience. Presently, the program includes eighteen regular projects.