COBRE: The Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research

描述(申请人提供)：这项Cobre建议的主要目标是扩大特拉华州的生物医学和行为研究，特别关注指导女性科学家在神经科学研究领域取得成功。特拉华州立大学和特拉华大学的一群女性神经科学家将建立一个多学科的神经科学研究中心，科学重点是神经发育和可塑性，发展目标是帮助女性科学家晋升到该专业的高级水平。特拉华州神经科学研究中心将追求三个目标：1)通过提供资金、支持和核心实验室资源，支持神经发育和可塑性方面的基础研究，将目标初级教员培养成成功竞争联邦研究资金的独立调查人员；2)开发一个综合、指导和专业发展计划，在此计划中，在科学研究和拨款获得方面有证明的知名科学家将为初级女教员提供正式的科学和学术指导，以帮助她们在职业生涯中取得进步，并成为外部资助的研究人员；3)加强历史悠久的黑人大学在神经科学研究和教育方面的新兴实力的研究基础设施和能力。这项科布雷计划将有两个重要的长期利益。首先，将发展一个持续的、自我维持的和具有竞争力的研究中心，促进神经科学方面的知识，并增加在特拉华州开展的多学科生物医学和行为研究的数量。其次，该中心将支持一批初级女教员成为R01资助的研究人员，并在学术和科学方面晋升到高级水平。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this COBRE proposal is to expand biomedical and behavioral research in the State of Delaware with a special focus on mentoring women scientists to successful careers in neuroscience research, A group of women neuroscientists at Delaware State University and the University of Delaware will establish a multidisciplinary center for neuroscience research with a scientific focus on neural development and plasticity, and a development goal of helping women scientists advance to senior levels of the profession. The Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research will pursue three aims: 1) To support basic research in neural development and plasticity by providing the money, support and core laboratory resources to develop targeted junior faculty into independent investigators who successfully compete for federal research funding; 2) To develop an integrated, mentoring and professional development program in which established scientists with proven histories in scientific research and grant acquisition will provide formal scientific and academic mentorship to junior women faculty to help them advance in their careers and become externally-funded researchers; 3) To strengthen the research infrastructure and capacity of an Historically-Black University with an emerging strength in neuroscience research and education. This COBRE program will have two significant long-term benefits. First, a continuing, self-sustaining, and competitive research center will be developed that will advance knowledge in neuroscience and increase the amount of multidisciplinary biomedical and behavioral research carried out in Delaware. Second, the Center will support a group of junior women faculty to become R01-funded investigators and advance to senior levels both academically and scientifically.