Summer Research at the University of Minnesota Medical School

描述(由申请者提供)：该计划的长期目标是发展必要的基础设施支持，最终将增加我们生物医学科学劳动力的多样性。我们认为，这支队伍缺乏多样性，特别是在医生和专业人员一级，这阻碍了我们加强预防和治疗心血管、肺部和血液疾病的能力。这包括从代表不足的群体中招募个人参加临床试验的困难，以及努力消除对代表不足的群体的个人造成不成比例影响的健康差距。此外，缺乏多样性缩小了能够推进国家心肺和血液研究所科学使命的人才的渠道和视角。为了实现这一长期目标，我们制定了一系列短期目标：1.从美国和波多黎各各地招收一批在学业上出类拔萃的学生到明尼苏达大学；2.为学生参与者提供由教师指导的项目独立研究机会；3.开发一个创新的研究培训模块，致力于招募和培训一批致力于追求医学-博士学位的学生。每个学生都将独立于小组的其他成员，在他们的教师导师的指导下，进行一项个性化的研究项目。然而，将所有这些研究项目联系在一起的首要主题是它们与心脏、血管、肺和血液疾病、血液资源和睡眠障碍的相关性。拟议的研究培训计划将为从美国和波多黎各招募的22名本科生提供为期10周的暑期强化独立研究体验，在明尼苏达大学双子城校区的项目教师导师的实验室进行。预计所有这些学生都将接受过一至四年的大学本科教育。符合条件的学生必须尚未获得学士学位，并且必须自我认同为代表人数不足的种族或民族群体的成员，或残疾或处于不利地位。这一研究培训计划成功的最终衡量标准将是它是否有能力帮助计划参与者实现他们的目标，即成为生物医学科学工作者的一员，从事心血管、肺部或血液疾病的研究。预计有三分之一到一半的学生将在完成学士学位课程后继续攻读生物科学方面的高级研究学位。(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goal of this program is to develop the requisite infrastructural support that will ultimately increase the diversity of our biomedical scientific workforce. In our view this lack of diversity in this workforce, particularly at the docoral and professional level, hinders our ability to enhance the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular, lung and blood diseases. This includes difficulty in recruiting individuals from under- represented groups into clinical trials, and efforts to eliminate health disparities that disproportionately affect individuals from under-represented groups. In addition, the lack of diversity narrows the pipeline and perspectives of talented individuals who can advance the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's scientific mission. To address this long-term goal, we have developed a number of short-term objectives: 1. Recruit a diverse, academically outstanding cohort of students from across the US and Puerto Rico to the University of Minnesota, 2. Provide student participants with a program faculty-mentored independent research opportunity, and 3. Develop an innovative research-training module devoted to recruiting and training a cohort of students committed to the pursuit of a combined MD-PhD degree. Each student will be working independently of the rest of the group on an individualized research project supervised by their faculty mentor. However, the overarching theme linking all of these research projects is their relevance to diseases of the heart, blood vessels, lung, and blood; blood resources; and sleep disorders. The proposed research training program will provide 22 undergraduate students recruited from across the US and Puerto Rico to an intensive 10-week summer independent research experience in the laboratories of program faculty mentors on the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus. It is anticipated that all of these students will have had between one and four years of university education at the baccalaureate level. To be eligible students must not yet have received their baccalaureate degree, and must self-identify as a member of an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, or be disabled, or disadvantaged. The ultimate measure of the success of this research training program will be its ability to assist program participants in achieving their goals of becoming members of the biomedical scientific workforce, pursuing research in cardiovascular, lung or blood diseases. It is anticipated that between a third and a half of student participants will go o to pursue advanced research degrees in the biological sciences upon completion of their baccalaureate degree programs. (End of Abstract)