Planning Grants for Institutional Clinical and Translational Science

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的目标是支持一个确保最佳规划的过程，并支持霍华德大学临床转化科学奖（CTSA）申请的准备。我们设想建立一个中心，支持跨学科单位，将新的发现转化为实际应用，解决非洲人、美国人和其他少数群体不成比例的健康相关逆境。该中心将培训和支持致力于这些目标的调查人员的职业发展。 该中心的计划建立在霍华德大学在一系列相关学科中培养少数民族科学家的丰富传统之上，通过研究和临床服务解决健康差距，并建立了社区关系，促进了少数民族参与者在研究中的稳健入学规划过程涉及多个学科和大学各学院的代表。指定了规划小组，负责发展中心的教育和培训部分、其治理和管理、跟踪和评价以及社区参与和传播程序。该中心的科学方法将在优先考虑新的翻译方法，实验室支持和方案开发资源以及生物信息学基础设施方面得到解决。规划小组将为转化科学奖中心（CTSA）的申请贡献相关部分的草案。他们的活动将通过一个指导委员会以及规划补助金的主要研究员和共同主要研究员加以协调和整合。CTSA的申请将在规划期结束时提交。我们将获得有关研究生临床研究培训和行为科学转化应用模型的外部咨询。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal for this application is to support a process that will assure optimal planning, and support the preparation of a Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) application from Howard University. We envision a Center that will support interdisciplinary units that will translate novel findings into practical applications that address the disproportionate health-related adversity of Africans American and other minority groups. The Center will train and support the career development of investigators who are committed to these goals. Plans for the Center build on Howard University's rich traditions of training minority scientists in a range of relevant disciplines, addressing health disparities with research and clinical services, and having established community relationships that have facilitated robust enrollment of minority participants in research studies The planning process involves multiple disciplines and representatives of the various schools and colleges of the University. Planning groups are designated that will address the development of the education and training components of the Center, its governance and administration, tracking and evaluation, and procedures for community engagement and dissemination. The scientific approach of the Center will be addressed in terms of prioritizing novel translational methods, resources for laboratory support and protocol development, and an infrastructure for bioinformatics. Planning groups will contribute drafts of relevant sections for a Center for Translational Science Award (CTSA) application. Their activity will be coordinated and integrated through a steering committee and the Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator for the planning grant. An application for a CTSA will be submitted at the end of the planning period. We will obtain external consultation regarding models for post-graduate clinical research training and translational applications for behavioral sciences.