MBRS SCORE at The University of Texas-Pan American

描述（由申请人提供）：德克萨斯大学泛美分校MBRS-SCORE计划的目标是帮助支持我们校园内生物医学科学卓越研究基础设施的发展。目前的计划旨在通过请求研究资金来支持一些最有才华的教职员工和学生研究人员的研究工作，以促进这一进程。1997年至2001年期间，提交的子项目数量增加了一倍多，这一SCORE申请得到了支持。在这份提案中，20名教师将参与17个子项目。这些调查人员代表了创纪录的部门参与汇集了来自生物学，化学，社会学，心理学，护理学，营养学，经济学，人类学和工程学系的教师。因此，UTPA的SCORE计划将从广泛和多样化的角度解决健康问题。分项目的主题范围从肉豆蔻酸抗癌作用机制的基础研究，可能提供对癌症的保护，通过有机金属试剂的新的合成药物，化学混合物的代谢毒性，影响卫生政策的广泛的社会行为问题，以及影响健康结果的社会和生物因素的相互作用，代表治疗和预防的关键途径。 此外，拟议的SCORE应用程序的一个主要目标是增加参与生物医学科学的代表性不足的群体的数量。这将通过扩大代表性不足的研究人员和学生，主要是西班牙裔（拉丁裔）的机会，并通过在校园内培养一个有吸引力的研究文化，将促进在南德克萨斯州的高质量研究生教育来实现。我们的地理位置和我们的高西班牙裔入学率与我们的许多学生的移民，农场工作的背景为我们提供了所有必要的资源，以成功地实现这一奋进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the MBRS-SCORE Program at The University of Texas Pan American is to help support the development of a research infrastructure of excellence in the biomedical sciences on our campus. The current program is designed to facilitate this process by requesting research funds to support the research endeavors of some of its most talented faculty, staff and student researchers. This SCORE application is bolstered by the number of subproject submissions, which more than doubled between 1997 and 2001. In this proposal twenty faculty members will be involved in seventeen subprojects. These investigators represent a record number of departmental involvement bringing together faculty from the departments of biology, chemistry, sociology, psychology, nursing, dietetics, economics, anthropology and engineering. Thus the SCORE program at UTPA will be addressing health problems from a broad and diverse perspective. Subprojects range in topic from basic research in the mechanism of anticarcinogenic effects of myristicin that may provide protection against cancer, novel synthesis of medicinal drugs via organometallic agents, toxicity of metabolism of chemical mixtures to broad social-behavioral concerns affecting health policy and the interaction of social and biological factors that influence health outcomes and represent critical avenues for treatment and prevention. Moreover, a primary objective of the proposed SCORE application is to increase the number of underrepresented groups participating in the biomedical sciences. This will be accomplished by expanding the opportunities for underrepresented researchers and students, mostly Hispanic (Latino), and by fostering an engaging research culture on campus that will promote quality graduate education in South Texas. Our geographical location and our high Hispanic enrollment with many of our students of a migrant-farmwork background provide us with all the necessary requisites to sucessfully fulIfill this endeavor.