"TRAINing' For Success in Biomedical Research Careers

描述(由申请人提供)：此申请将在布朗大学和四个少数族裔服务机构(MSI)之间建立一个跨机构的‘团队研究’和机构间网络(培训)计划。该计划将通过在麻省理工学院的六个教职员工领导的本科生团队和布朗大学的六个教职员工领导的研究团队之间开发合作试点研究项目来建立。开展的研究项目将被用作机制，使MSI本科生更多地参与研究活动，从而提高他们追求研究生职业生涯的可能性，MSI教师支持并扩大他们的研究实践，以及布朗大学的教师在指导未来的研究生候选人的同时建立他们的研究项目和发展合作。该计划的广泛和长期目标是1)支持生物医学和行为科学方面的研究培训，2)吸引和留住科学领域中代表性不足的[UR：少数群体和弱势]受训人员。它还同时支持麻省理工学院和布朗大学UR和非UR教师的职业发展。该计划将利用我们通过IMSD研究生项目与三家MSI建立的已存在的机构间伙伴关系。因此，它将受到我们与MSI关系的不断成熟以及建立加强美国国家生物医学研究企业和增加劳动力多样性的项目的共同愿望的影响。这一MARC辅助计划将为毕业生前景、榜样、同事和合作者提供最佳的合作环境，并将在参与者中培养一种更强大、更一体化的“教育-研究-培训-职业发展”的文化。具体目标是：1)在麻省理工学院和布朗大学教职员工之间建立联合项目，通过与学生联系的试点项目加强学术能力和成果。2)通过建立与学年经验挂钩的更精致的“暑期研究体验”，为UR学生提供更多研究机会和培训经验；3)通过互惠的小型实习、交流和休假，支持教师的辅助培训。 公共卫生相关性：该计划的公共卫生和研究相关性在于它对加强和增加美国科学工作者的贡献，这是维持全球竞争力和生产力所必需的。该计划建立了新的培训模式，将建立纵向关系，确保定期补充强大和多样化的美国生物医学劳动力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application will establish a cross-institutional 'team-research' and inter-institutional networking (TRAINing) program between Brown University and four minority serving institutions (MSIs). The program will be established by developing collaborative pilot research projects between six faculty-led undergraduate student teams from MSIs and six faculty-led research teams at Brown. The research projects carried out will be used as mechanisms by which MSI undergraduate students become more engaged in research acivities that raise their likelihood of pursuing graduate careers, MSI faculty sustain and expand their research practices, and Brown University faculty to build their research programs and develop collaborations while mentoring prospective graduate candidates. The program's broad and long-term goals are to 1) support research training in the biomedical and behaviorial sciences and 2) attract and retain under-represented [UR: minority and disadvantaged] trainees in the sciences. It also simultaneously supports the career development of UR and non-UR faculty at MSIs and at Brown. The program will take advantage of the pre-exisiting inter-institutional partnership we have established with three of the MSIs through our graduate IMSD program. As a result, it will be shaped by the ongoing maturation of our relationships with MSIs and the common desire to establish programs that strengthen the U.S. national biomedical research enterprise and increase workforce diversity. This MARC Ancillary program will actualize the optimal environments for graduate prospects, role models, colleagues and collaborators to work together and will foster a stronger and more integrated 'education-to research training-to career development' culture among participants. The specific aims are to 1) Establish joint projects between MSIs and Brown University faculty to strengthen academic capacity & outcomes through student-linked pilot projects. 2) Expand research opportunities & training experiences for UR students by establishing more a refined 'summer- away research experience' that is linked to academic year experiences and 3) Support faculty ancillary training through reciprocal mini-internships, exchanges and sabbaticals. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The public health and research relevance of this program is its contributions to strengthening and increasing the US scientific workforce needed to maintain global competitiveness and productivity. The program establishes new training modes that will establish longitudinal relationships which will ensure regular replenishment of a strong and diverse US biomedical workforce.