MBRS SCORE Program at California State University, Fresno

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学，弗雷斯诺（CSU-Fresno）于2000年6月建立了MBRS-SCORE计划，以加强其生物医学研究基础设施，使更多的客户从其服务领域可以从事研究事业。CSU弗雷斯诺计划的具体目标是使该机构，特别是其教师，在努力建立成功和可持续的研究项目方面更具竞争力。更新后的SCORE计划目前包括一个单一的资助研究项目，即，结核病的分子微生物学研究，由生物系的一名教员进行。该提案提出了四个补充项目，以扩大该方案，并协助实现其具体目标。这四个项目都是由两个大学学院三个系的新聘助理教授提交的，将使该计划多样化，其中三个项目来自行为科学，即一个关于人类语言感知，一个关于婴儿睡眠行为，一个关于动物模型生物体的选择行为，第四个来自一位生物学家，他正在进行与肥胖和糖尿病有关的激素的生理研究。这四名教师都有很好的研究记录，并表现出对教育生物医学/行为研究学生的兴趣。这些项目在SCORE计划的列入将大大有助于满足出版物，演示文稿和资助提交/资助的部门与SCORE资助的教师提高目标的具体目标，也将有助于满足扩大计划的目标，吸引更多的学生研究人员。由于我们最近更新的SCORE计划的范围有限，并且当时NIH的研究资金有限，目前的计划没有获得行政资金奖励。本提案中包括对行政支持的适度要求，以加强该计划的发展和教师指导能力，并为与NIH工作人员和SCORE计划的国家网络保持直接联系提供支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University, Fresno (CSU-Fresno) established an MBRS-SCORE program in June 2000 to strengthen its biomedical research infrastructure so that more clientele from its service area can engage in research careers. The specific goal of the CSU-Fresno program is to make the institution, and in particular its faculty, more competitive in their efforts to build successful and sustainable research programs. The renewed SCORE program presently consists of a single funded research project, i.e., studies on the molecular microbiology of tuberculosis, conducted by a Biology Department faculty member. This proposal presents four supplemental projects to expand the program and to assist in meeting its specific objectives. These four projects, all submitted by recently hired assistant professors from three departments in two university colleges, would diversify the program with three projects from the behavioral sciences, i.e. one on human speech perception, one on infant sleep behavior, and one on choice behavior in animal model organisms, and a fourth from a biologist conducting physiological studies on hormones related to obesity and diabetes. Each of these four faculty members has a strong research record and a demonstrated interest in educating biomedical/behavioral research students. Inclusion of these projects in the SCORE program would greatly assist in meeting the specific objectives of elevated targets for publication, presentation, and grant submission/funding by faculty members in departments with SCORE funding and would also help meet objectives for broadening the program and attracting larger numbers of student researchers. With the limited scope of our recently renewed SCORE program and the limited NIH research funding available at the time, the current program received no administrative funding award. A modest request for administrative support is included in this proposal to strengthen the development and faculty mentoring capabilities of the program and to provide support for maintaining direct contact with NIH staff and the national network of SCORE programs.