P30 Application "Voice and Swallow Neuroscience Research Core"

描述(由申请人提供)：这份由NIDCD P30支持的在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校招聘新教师的ARRA提案的目的是促进语音和吞咽神经科学研究领域的领先者的发展。我们将通过提供两年的工资支持、实验室空间、启动资金和受保护的研究时间，来发展通信科学和疾病领域的杰出生物医学研究人员Michelle Ciucci博士的职业生涯。我们的机构承诺为丘奇博士再提供四年的支持，并提供终身教职。收到资助后，丘奇博士将于2009年9月30日或之前开始担任终身教职助理教授。她将从目前NIH资助的博士后研究员职位过渡到沟通障碍和外科(耳鼻喉科/头颈外科)的联合终身教职任命，沟通障碍代表她的终身教职之家。威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的文学与科学学院是申请的机构/组织单位，它支持这一招聘，并做出了强有力的机构承诺，将继续支持丘奇博士的职位。如果没有ARRA支持的PSO的资金，丘奇博士的聘用是不可能的。利用这一奖项的资金，我们将扩大威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的多学科研究人员社区，将这位有前途的年轻学者包括在内，他的职业生涯显然正处于上升轨道上。丘奇博士将专注于基础和翻译发音和吞咽研究，重点是发声/吞咽神经科学。我们的目标是通过发展一位非凡的新教员在发声和吞咽神经科学领域的独立研究，加强和扩展威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校现有的发声和吞咽研究。这位新招聘的教员将开发一个独立的研究项目，填补威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校在有关语音和吞咽的神经科学的基础和翻译研究方面的专业知识的显著空白。发现以中枢神经系统为基础的沟通和吞咽障碍的潜在机制和有效治疗方法与2009-11 NIDCD战略计划高度相关。 公共卫生相关性：这项P30奖金将极大地促进威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的翻译语音和吞咽研究。这一奖项为杰出的新研究员米歇尔·丘奇博士提供了启动一项独立研究计划的机会，该计划极有可能产生与重要临床问题有关的有意义的发现。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aim of this ARRA proposal for NIDCD P30-supported new faculty recruitment at the University of Wisconsin (UW) - Madison is to foster the development of a leader in the field of voice and swallow neuroscience research. We will develop the career of an outstanding biomedical researcher in the area of communication sciences and disorders, Dr. Michelle Ciucci, by providing two years of salary support, lab space, start up funding, and protected research time. Our institution has committed to four additional years of support and a tenure-track faculty position for Dr. Ciucci. Upon receipt of funding, Dr. Ciucci will begin her appointment on or before September 30, 2009 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. She will transition from her current appointment as a NIH-funded Postdoctoral Fellow to have a joint tenure-track appointment in the Departments of Communicative Disorders and Surgery (Division of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery), with Communicative Disorders representing her tenure home. The College of Letters and Science at the UW-Madison, which is the applicant institution/organizational unit, is supportive of this hire and has made a strong institutional commitment to continued support of Dr. Ciucci's position. Without funds from this ARRA supported PSO, Dr. Ciucci's hire would not be possible. With funds from this award, we will expand the community of multidisciplinary researchers at the UW-Madison to include this promising young scholar whose career is clearly on an upward trajectory. Dr. Ciucci will concentrate her efforts on basic and translational voice and swallowing research with a focus in voice/swallowing neuroscience. Our goal is to enhance and extend current voice and swallowing research at the UW-Madison by developing the independent research of an extraordinary new faculty member in the area of voice and swallowing neuroscience. This new faculty hire will develop an independent research program that will fill a significant gap in expertise at the UW-Madison in basic and translational research concerning the neuroscience of voice and swallowing. The discovery of underlying mechanisms and effective treatments for central nervous system based communication and swallowing impairments is highly relevant to the 2009-11 NIDCD strategic plan. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This P30 grant award will greatly enhance translational voice and swallowing research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This award offers Dr. Michelle Ciucci, an outstanding new investigator, the opportunity to begin an independent program of research with a high likelihood of yielding meaningful findings related to an important clinical issue.