Endowment in Cardivascular Science

描述(由申请人提供)：夏威夷大学(UH)约翰·A·伯恩斯医学院(JABSOM)提交了这份申请，以建立一个专注于心血管研究的捐赠基金，因为心血管疾病是我们少数族裔和医疗服务不足的公民过度发病率和死亡率的主要原因。我们将通过补充或开始支持JABSOM新的心血管研究中心(CCR)的以下项目来实现这一目标：1.与健康差距有关，2.最有可能导致可筹集资金的项目，这些项目可以利用捐赠基金的初始投资。显然，心血管疾病是在可预见的未来缩小我们州健康差距的一个重要研究重点领域。此外，JABSOM最近招募了一位新的领导者来开发该校的心血管研究，他的项目进展迅速。捐赠计划将加强努力，鼓励在CCR进行健康差距研究，并为有前途的初级研究人员提供机会，开发最终改善夏威夷人民健康结果的研究。我们的总体目标是建立一项捐赠基金，以支持专注于心血管研究的永久研究计划的发展，特别是与夏威夷原住民、亚洲和太平洋岛民以及夏威夷其他服务不足的人群相关的重点领域。我们设计了以下具体目标来实现我们的目标：1.我们将成立一个高级别的心血管捐赠委员会来设计和实施拟议的捐赠计划。该委员会将在新成立的心血管研究中心内优先考虑值得捐赠支持的心血管研究项目。2.支持初级和少数教职员工开展心血管研究。我们预计，这将主要包括工资和项目支助，以将早期项目发展到可筹集资金的水平。我们将重点资助有助于了解或缓解心血管疾病的项目，这些疾病在夏威夷服务不足的人群中特别常见或严重。3.最后，我们会把收入作再投资，并推出新的拨款措施，以补充基金的资助，从而增加基金的资助范围。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Hawaii (UH) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) is submitting this application to establish an endowment focused on cardiovascular research, because cardiovascular disease is the primary cause of excess morbidity and mortality in our minority and medically-underserved citizens. We will accomplish this objective by supplemental or beginning support for projects in the new Center for Cardiovascular Research (CCR) at JABSOM that are: 1. pertinent to health disparities and, 2. most likely to lead to fundable projects that can leverage the initial investment of the endowment funds. It is clear that cardiovascular disease is a vital area of research emphasis for the foreseeable future for reducing health disparities in our state. Moreover, JABSOM has recently recruited a new leader to develop cardiovascular research at the school and his program has been progressing rapidly. The endowment program will enhance efforts to encourage health disparities research in the CCR, and provide promising junior investigators the opportunity to develop studies that will ultimately improve health outcomes in Hawaii's people. It is our overall objective to establish an endowment to support the development of a perpetual research program focused on cardiovascular research, especially as it relates to areas of emphasis relevant to Native Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Islander and other underserved populations in Hawaii. We have designed the following specific aims to accomplish our objective: 1. we will establish a senior-level Cardiovascular Endowment Committee to design and implement the proposed endowment program. This committee will prioritize cardiovascular research projects deserving of endowment support within the newly established Center for Cardiovascular Research. 2. We will support junior and minority faculty in conducting cardiovascular research. We anticipate that this will primarily include salary and project support to develop early-stage projects to a fundable level. We will focus on funding projects that contribute to the understanding or relief of cardiovascular diseases that are particularly common or severe among underserved populations in Hawaii. 3. Finally we will increase the endowment corpus through reinvestment of earnings and new funding initiatives that will complement the endowment support.