SCORE Institutional Development Project at New Mexico State Univ.

描述(由申请者提供)：这是新墨西哥州立大学拉斯克鲁塞斯分校颁发的SCORE机构发展奖(S06)的申请书，旨在改善机构研究环境，提高教师研究人员进行竞争性生物医学研究的能力。建议的S06评分项目有4个主要目标和10个目标。 目标1是根据最近完成的一项对国立管理大学研究环境的全面调查研究，制定和实施研究财政管理方面的制度变革。这一目标的目标是通过负责研究的副总裁在选定的机构办公室内制定举措，减少初期处理新赠款所需的时间；减少批准研究用品采购订单所需的时间；为需要30天或更短时间的外部资助研究项目建立人员聘用机制；寻求和实施各种妨碍研究进展的侵入性行政财政做法的解决方案。其中一些做法涉及PI启动采购订单的权力，通过NIH批准的地方当局，以及关闭预算年度支出。 目标2是支持和扩大一个共享的核心仪器设施所提供的研究服务和仪器设备，该设备提供SC1、SC2、SC3(简称SCN)成绩补助金调查人员所需的分析服务。这一目标的目标是开展活动，维持对核心设施实验室和经理/操作员的支持，他们为SCORE SCN赠款的PI提供有价值的服务。 目标3是赞助讲习班和外部演讲者研讨会，提供获取教程的途径，并提供服务，告知和培训SCN成绩获得者过渡到非SCORE外部研究资金来源。这一目标的目标是安排年度现场研讨会，培训SCN受赠者提交NIH R01申请；在未来4年内使NMSU SCORE计划的SCN赠款获得者中的一半退出SCORE支持；并将提交R01研究资助申请的Score支持的PIs的百分比从目前的41%提高到80%。 目标4是对个别研究人员发起的SCN赠款对该机构生物医学研究能力的整体状况及其对国家卫生研究院现有NIH-MORE项目任务的影响进行年度评估。这一目标的目的是维护数据库，从这些数据库中衡量进行生物医学研究的机构能力的状况，以及在新的SCN资助形式下推动URM科学家完成博士学位的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for a SCORE Institutional Development Award (S06) from New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, designed to improve the institutional research environment and enhance the capacity of faculty researchers to conduct competitive biomedical research. The proposed S06 SCORE project has 4 major goals and 10 objectives. Goal 1 is to formulate and implement institutional changes in research fiscal administration based on a recently completed, comprehensive survey study of the research environment at NMSU. The objectives of this goal are to develop initiatives within select institutional offices through the Vice President for Research that reduce the time required for incipient processing of new grant awards; reduce the time required to authorize purchase orders for research supplies; develop personnel hiring mechanisms for externally funded research projects that require 30 days or less; and seek and implement solutions to a myriad of intrusive administrative fiscal practices that impede research progress. Some of these practices relate to the PI's authority to initiate purchase orders, adoption of local authorities approved by NIH, and close-out of budget year expenditures. Goal 2 is to support and expand the research services and instrumentation available in a shared, core instrumentation facility which provides analytical services required by the investigators of SC1, SC2, SC3 (abbreviated SCn) SCORE grants. The objectives of this goal are to conduct activities that maintain support for a core facility laboratory and manager/ operator, who provides valuable services for PIs of SCORE SCn grants. Goal 3 is to sponsor workshops and external speaker seminars, provide access to tutorials, and provide services which inform and train SCn SCORE grant awardees to transition to non-SCORE external sources of research funding. The objectives of this goal are to arrange annual on-site workshops for training SCn grantees for submission of NIH R01 applications; to transition half of the SCn grant recipients of the SCORE Program at NMSU out of SCORE support within the next 4 years; and to increase the percentage of SCORE-supported PIs who submit R01 research grant applications from the current baseline of 41% to 80%. Goal 4 is to conduct an annual evaluation of the impact of individual investigator-initiated SCn grants on the overall status of the biomedical research capacity of the institution and its impact on the missions of existing NIH-MORE programs at NMSU. The objective of this goal is to maintain databases from which to gauge the status of the institutional capacity to conduct biomedical research and its capacity to advance URM scientists to completion of Ph.D. degrees under the new SCn grants format.