Women's Reproductive Health Research

 描述(由申请人提供)：加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)女性生殖健康研究(WRHR)职业发展计划的使命是通过扩大女性生殖健康领域训练有素、富有想象力和生产力的研究人员队伍，促进女性健康和预防疾病。WRHR计划于1998年首次获得资助，随后在2004年和2009年退款，以招募和准备优秀的应聘者，以获得实现这一目标所需的新技能。12名优秀的WRHR学者已被招募到该计划，其中10人已毕业于成功的独立研究事业，2人继续我们目前的WRHR计划。在这次续签申请的未来五年里，我们建议继续并改进我们的加州大学旧金山分校WRHR计划，同时招聘、指导和准备两名优秀的初级学院WRHR学者，以获得和完善成为女性生殖健康独立研究人员所需的技能。我们拥有强大的现有基础设施、课程和学者指导系统，以迎接培养下一代学术产科医生-妇科医生的挑战。我们建议一个有组织的课程，足够的持续时间(2-5年)，相关的教学教育，广泛的基于团队的指导，以及沉浸在充满活力的研究社区中的保护时间，以帮助我们的学者为学术独立做好准备。与加州大学旧金山分校临床与转化科学研究所(CTSI)的合作将进一步丰富我们学者的教育，该研究所为校园范围内的多学科研究合作提供研究基础设施、资源、培训和机会。我们了解到，在初级教员任职的最初几年里，密集的科学和学术指导是强制性的，这样才能获得有回报、成功和富有成效的学术生涯。将招募学者从事生殖科学方面的生物医学(以实验室为基础)、转化和/或临床研究。建立了两条途径来指导经验较少的(第一轨道)和较有经验的(第二轨道)学者。转化性研究是我们产科、妇科和生殖科学系的一个主要重点，它将通过参与连接生物医学和临床项目的研究而获得。我们的WRHR项目从几个校园范围的项目中汲取力量并做出贡献，这些项目专注于在女性生殖健康方面的临床、翻译、流行病学和基础研究、患者护理和疾病预防方面的创新，以及在为学员和导师的成功和福祉而构建的丰富研究环境中进行指导的坚定机构承诺。我们致力于培养一批加州大学旧金山分校的人力资源学者，他们将通过在预防、诊断和治疗生殖疾病方面进行重要发现、扩大知识和测试创新来改善女性的健康状况。通过我们建议的指导计划，我们预计我们的学者将继续发展成为全国和全球女性生殖健康研究的独立调查人员和未来的领导者。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Women's Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Career Development Program is to promote health and prevent disease in women by expanding the pool of well-trained, imaginative, productive investigators in the field of women's reproductive health. The WRHR program was first funded in 1998 and subsequently refunded in 2004 and 2009 to recruit and prepare outstanding candidates to acquire new skills needed to reach this goal. Twelve superb WRHR Scholars have been recruited to the program with ten having "graduated" to successful independent research careers and two continuing in our current WRHR program. Over the next five years of this renewal application, we propose to continue and improve our UCSF WRHR program to recruit, mentor, and prepare two outstanding Junior Faculty WRHR Scholars at a time to acquire and refine skills needed to become independent investigators in women's reproductive health. We have robust existing infrastructure, curriculum, and Scholar mentoring systems to meet the challenge of training the next generation of academic Obstetrician-Gynecologists. We propose a structured program of sufficient duration (2-5 years), relevant didactic education; extensive team-based mentoring, and protected time with immersion in a vibrant research community to prepare our Scholars for academic independence. The education of our Scholars will be further enriched by collaboration with the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) that provides research infrastructure, resources, training and opportunities for campus-wide multidisciplinary research collaborations. We have learned that intensive scientific and academic mentoring is mandatory during the initial years of a junior faculty appointment for a rewarding, successful and productive academic career. Scholars will be recruited to pursue biomedical (laboratory-based), translational, and/or and clinical research in reproductive science. Two pathways have been established to guide less experienced (Track I) and more experienced (Track II) Scholars. Translational research, a major focus in our Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, will be gained through participation in studies bridging biomedical and clinically oriented projects. Our WRHR Program draws strength from and contributes to several campus-wide programs focused on innovation in clinical, translational, epidemiologic and basic research, patient care, and disease prevention in women's reproductive health, as well as a strong institutional commitment to mentoring in a rich research environment structured for success and well-being of trainees and mentors. We are committed to nurturing a cadre of UCSF WRHR Scholars who will improve the health status of women by conducting important discovery, expanding knowledge, and testing innovations for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of reproductive disorders. Through our proposed mentoring program, we anticipate that our Scholars will continue to develop into independent investigators and future leaders of women's reproductive health research nationally and globally.