SNRP PROJECT AT MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE

这项应用的长期目标是增强和加强梅哈里医学院教职员工和实习生的神经科学研究能力。此外，梅哈里医学院的神经科学教员寻求帮助提高该校研究相对于美国其他健康科学中心的竞争地位。专门的神经科学研究计划(SNRP)将有助于创造一个研究环境，在这个环境中，教职员工和受训人员将提高他们的研究技能和能力，以有效地进行高质量的研究，通过同行评议的出版物和在全国会议上的陈述来传播他们的研究成果，并为独立的校外研究资金竞争更大的成功。目前申请的具体目标(可衡量的目标)是：1)促进每个子项目私人投资机构在项目结束时获得主流资金；2)达到神经科学中心教职员工100%的校外资金水平，并在项目结束前促进获得另外三个主流校外奖项；以及3)增加神经科学研究人员同行评议的出版物数量，平均每年两篇。Meharry SNRP是范德比尔特大学和阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校的联合努力。拟议方案由一个核心项目和两个协作研究子项目组成。核心为神经科学教员提供行政支持，重点是合作项目。核心教师发展活动包括资助人研讨会、技术研讨会、研讨会计划和一年一度的地区性神经科学研讨会。

The long-range goal of this application is to augment and strength the neuroscience research capabilities of faculty and trainees at Meharry Medical College. Moreover, neuroscience faculty members at Meharry Medical College seek to assist in improving the competitive status of the school's research relative to other health science centers in the United States. The Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (SNRP) will help to create a research environment wherein faculty and trainees will enhance their research skills and capabilities to efficiently conduct high quality research, to disseminate their research findings through peer- reviewed publications and presentations at national meetings, and to compete with greater success for independent extramural research funds. The specific aims (measurable objectives) of the current applications are to: 1) facilitate the acquisition of mainstream funding by each of the subproject PIs by the end of the project period; 2) attain a 100% level of extramural funding by Neuroscience Center faculty and promote the acquisition of an additional three mainstream extramural awards by the end of the project period; and 3) increase the number of peer-reviewed publications by neuroscience investigators to a mean of two per year by the end of the project period. The Meharry SNRP is a joint effort involving Vanderbilt University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The proposed program consists of a core and two collaborative research subprojects. The core provides administrative support for neuroscience faculty with an emphasis on the collaborative projects. Core faculty development activities include grantwriters' workshops, technical workshops, a seminar program and an annual regional neuroscience symposium.