MBRS-SCORE PROGRAM AT UPR-MEDICAL SCIENCES CAMPUS

描述（由申请人提供）：这是对ubr - msc MBRS SCORE项目的补充申请，扩大了母项目对生物医学研究的支持范围，从而加强了其实现协助教师开发有竞争力的研究项目的总体目标的能力，并增加了从事生物医学、临床和行为研究的少数族裔专业人员的数量。作为我们最近竞争更新过程的结果，SCORE计划目前由22个项目组成（18个常规项目和4个试点项目），整合了来自6个MSC学校和学院中的4个的研究人员。该计划支持的主要研究重点领域是：传染病、神经科学、细胞生物学、癌症和分子毒理学。新增的研究人员队伍和项目是对家长补助金的补充，增加了主要研究领域的项目数量。此外，这些领域的研究课题的多样性得到进一步扩大，其中一个项目是心血管生理学，两个项目是传染病。具体来说，该补充寻求支持3个项目（2个常规项目和1个试点项目），包括处于早期专业发展阶段的教师。因此，本补充文件中所有申请人的支持被认为是UPR-MSC和国家MBRS SCORE计划的重要附加价值和资产积累。一旦被授予，预期的个人个人资料将产生一个对职业发展所有阶段敏感的SCORE计划，主要解决最高发展援助范围（阶段1-3）的个人个人信息。所有子项目都是经过修订的申请，充分考虑了之前补充申请中提出的批评，大大加强了它们的科学价值。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This supplemental application to the UPR-MSC's MBRS SCORE Program expands the scope of support for biomedical research provided by the parent program, thereby strengthening its ability to attain the overall goal of assisting faculty to develop competitive research programs, and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities professionally engaged in biomedical, clinical and behavioral research. As an outcome of our recent competing renewal process, the SCORE Program is currently composed of 22 projects (18 regular and 4 pilots), that integrates investigators from four out of six MSC's schools and colleges. The main research focus areas supported by the program are: Infectious Diseases, Neurosciences, Cell Biology, Cancer, and Molecular Toxicology. The new cadre of investigators and projects in this supplement complement the parent grant by increasing the mass of PIs in the main research areas. In addition, the diversity of research topics within these areas is further expanded with one project being in Cardiovascular Physiology, and two projects in Infectious Diseases. Specifically, the supplement seeks support for 3 projects (2 regular and one pilot) to include faculty who are at an early stage of professional development. Support of all applicants in this supplement is consequently envisioned as a significant added value and asset accrual for UPR-MSC's and national MBRS SCORE Programs. Once awarded, the prospective PI profile will result in an SCORE Program sensitive to all stages of career development, primarily addressing PIs at the end of the spectrum of highest developmental assistance (stages 1-3). All subprojects included are revised applications that thoroughly considered the critiques raised in the previous supplemental application, considerably strengthening their scientific merit.