BORDER BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER: ADMINISTRATION

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中的一个 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源。子项目和 研究者（PI）可能从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金， 因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。所列机构为 研究中心，而研究中心不一定是研究者所在的机构。 德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校提议继续支持其边境生物医学研究中心（BBRC），以促进对沿着美国与墨西哥边境的西班牙裔多数人口中普遍存在的病理生物学问题的基础研究。 该研究所优先重视（1）传染病、（2）毒理学和（3）神经科学和代谢紊乱领域的研究，并建立了与这三个领域相对应的单位。 每个将构成一个单独的活动，涉及20名来自生物科学和心理学系的参与者。 其中四名参与者是新招聘的教师，他们有潜力建立独立资助的研究项目。 拟议的资金旨在提高生物医学研究的数量和质量，使其达到国家竞争力的水平，以获得赠款支持。BBRC将增加教师队伍，以达到三个研究单位的临界质量。 在细胞培养、DNA测序和分析、分析细胞学、生物分子表征和分离以及统计咨询方面的多用户研究设施将得到加强，并将继续提供基础设施支持。 BBRC的目标是成为研究边境地区流行疾病病理机制的卓越中心，将人类健康的生物学观点和生物统计学应用与基础生物医学研究相结合。 BBRC将为生物科学博士课程提供强大的研究基础设施，使德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校能够成为西班牙裔和其他代表性不足的少数民族进入国家生物医学研究主流的主要入口点。

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 University of Texas at El Paso proposes continuing support for its Border Biomedical Research Center (BBRC), to promote basic research on pathobiological problems prevalent in the Hispanic-majority population along the United States border with Mexico. The institution has assigned priority to research in the fields of (1) infectious diseases, (2) toxicology, and (3) neuroscience and metabolic disorders and has establised units corresponding to these three fields. Each will constitute a separate activity involving 20 participants from the Department of Biological Sciences and Psychology. Four of the participants are new faculty members recruited for their potential to establish independently-funded research programs. The proposed funding is designed to enhance the quantity and quality of biomedical research to a nationally competitive level for grant support. The BBRC will increase the cadre of faculty to reach critical mass in the three research units. Multi-user Research Facilities in cell culture, DNA sequencing and analysis, analytical cytology, biomolecular characterization and separation, and statistical consulting will be enhanced and will continue to provide infrastructural support. The goal of the BBRC is to become a center of excellence for research on pathological mechanisms of disease prevalent in the Border region, to integrate the epidmiological perspective on human health and the applications of biostatistics with basic biomedical research. The BBRC will provide a strong research infrastructure to the doctoral program in the Biological Sciences, so that the University of Texas at El Paso can serve as a amajor point of entry for Hispanics and other underrepresented minorities into the biomedical research mainstream of the nation.