Morehouse Cardiovascular Research Center of Excellence

健康方面的种族/民族差异和少数族裔科学家代表性不足的双刃剑问题是生物医学领域面临的两个最紧迫的挑战。作为解决这些棘手问题的一部分，为少数群体服务的机构没有得到充分利用。莫尔豪斯医学院(MSM)作为一家为少数族裔服务的学术健康中心，在利用P30奖励机制解决这些问题方面处于独特的地位，该中心整合了其三方使命：教育高比例的少数族裔学生；为服务不足的少数族裔社区提供高质量的医疗保健；追求少数族裔健康研究的科学卓越。 MSM执行领导层长期致力于将MSM心血管研究所(CVRI)打造成美国卓越的多学科卓越研究中心之一，并致力于开展以少数族裔健康研究和培训为重点的研究培训计划，培养下一代少数族裔科学家。我们的方法寻求通过使CVRI主任将P30项目资源集中在我们的三大资产-我们的教师、我们的研究基础设施和我们未来的科学家-上来建立力量。因此，P30项目的三个主要目标是：1)留住已被CVRI招募的“新调查人员”并促进其职业发展；2)不断加强我们的共享资源；以及3)进一步改善我们为代表不足的少数族裔学生提供的研究培训环境。这些目标将通过实现以下具体目标来实现： 目标一：留住并指导一大批有才华的新研究人员，他们开发独立的研究计划和多学科、协作的研究团队。 目标二：建立支持前沿心血管科学的使能技术和共享使用的研究基础设施。 目标三：通过维持有利于培养和培养少数族裔学生成为主要研究人员的充满活力的智力环境，扩大生物医学研究界的种族/民族多样性。 目标四：开发创新的跨学科研究计划，整合基础、翻译、临床和人口科学方法，以解决心血管健康方面的种族/民族差异。

The dual-edged problem of racial/ethnic disparities in health and the under-representation of minority scientists are two of the most compelling challenges facing the field of biomedicine. Minority-Serving Institutions are under-utilized as part of the solution to these vexing problems. The Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is uniquely positioned to utilize this P30 award mechanism to redress these issues as a minority-serving academic health center that integrates its tripartite mission of: educating a high proportion of minority students; providing quality medical care to under-served minority communities and pursuing scientific excellence in minority health research. The MSM executive leadership has a long-term institutional commitment to the goal of establishing the MSM Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI) as one of the nation's preeminent multi-disciplinary research centers of excellence and research training programs that prioritizes minority health research and training the next generation of minority scientists. Our approach seeks to build strength upon strength by enabling the CVRI Director to focus the P30 program resources on our three major assets ~ our faculty, our research infrastructure and our future scientists. Accordingly, the three major objectives of this P30 program are: 1) the retention and career development of 'new investigators' that have already been recruited to the CVRI, 2) the ongoing enhancement of our shared-use resources, and 3) the further refinement of our research training environment for under-represented minority students. These objectives will be achieved by pursuing the following specific aims: Aim I: To retain and mentor a critical mass of talented new investigators that develop independent research programs and multi-disciplinary, collaborative research teams. Aim II: To establish enabling technologies and a shared-use research infrastructure that supports leading edge cardiovascular science. Aim III: To expand the racial/ethnic diversity of the biomedical research community by sustaining a vibrant intellectual environment conducive to training and nurturing the development of minority students into leading investigators. Aim IV: To develop innovative, cross-disciplinary research programs that integrate basic, translational, clinical and population science approaches to address racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health.