OK COBRE: RECRUITING CORE

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。俄克拉何马州卓越生物医学研究中心（COBRE）自身免疫分子机制和遗传学的总体目标是指导初级研究人员的科学发展，以实现杰出的、富有成效的独立研究事业，并创造必要的基础设施，以确保他们在这一努力中取得成功。这个招聘核心由医学博士J. Donald Capra领导，他是OMRF的总裁，负责识别、招募和留住优秀的初级调查员，以取代COBRE的毕业生。Capra博士在为他之前的项目、正在进行的COBRE以及总体上的OMRF寻找和招募优秀的初级教师方面取得了非凡的成功。他利用这些技能确定了最有希望获得本自身免疫中心支持的候选人Amr Sawalha博士。Sawalha博士已被俄克拉何马州医学研究基金会正式聘用，并将于2005年7月完成我们的新招募里程碑。他将接替Swapan Nath博士，在Nath博士正式离开中心后担任初级调查员。其他有前途的候选人已经确定，并在未来两年内加入COBRE，因为我们希望我们将有另外两名初级调查员从中心毕业。本次COBRE将继续开展招聘活动，目的是尽可能多地为自身免疫领域的科学家培养早期职业。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The overall goal of the Oklahoma Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Molecular Mechanisms and Genetics of Autoimmunity is to mentor the scientific development of Junior Investigators to achieve outstanding, productive independent research careers and to create the necessary infrastructure to ensure their success in this endeavor. This Recruiting Core, led by J. Donald Capra, M.D. - President of the OMRF - identifies, recruits, and retains outstanding Junior Investigators to replace graduates of this COBRE. Dr. Capra has had phenomenal success in identifying and recruiting outstanding junior faculty to his previous program projects, his ongoing COBRE, and to the OMRF in general. He has used these skills to identify the most promising candidate eligible to receive support from this autoimmunity Center, Dr. Amr Sawalha. Dr. Sawalha has been officially recruited to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and will satisfy our milestone of having a new recruit start by July 2005. He will succeed Dr. Swapan Nath as a Junior Investigator once Dr. Nath has officially separated from the Center. Other promising candidates have been identified and approached about joining the COBRE in the next two years, as we hope that we will have two more Junior Investigators graduate from the Center. Recruiting activities will be continuous in this COBRE with the intention of fostering as many early careers for scientists in autoimmunity as is possible.