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）是一所少数族裔机构，提供硕士学位作为其最高学位，并在发展少数族裔美国人在生物医学科学领域的职业生涯方面具有悠久的成功传统，提议更新其成功的生物医学学士学位后研究教育计划（BIOMED PREP）。拟议和扩大的方案旨在将有能力的少数民族个人的才能保留在生物医学人力资本管道中，否则他们的能力可能会因生物医学研究而丧失。结果是，这个项目的参与者随后将进入主要研究机构的研究生课程，从而获得博士学位。在第一个资助期，超过80%的参与学士学位后的学生进入全国顶尖机构攻读生物医学或行为博士学位。我们提议更新的项目在两个重要方面得到扩展：我们将把少数民族PREP学者的数量从目前的每年6人增加到12人，并与两家主要的生物医学研究机构，南加州大学和希望之城/贝克曼合作

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.