UNC BIRCWH

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请是竞争性的更新，美国的BIRCWH奖。该计划的使命是促进妇女健康的生物医学职业的招聘，保留和持续发展。我们的计划理念基于三个核心概念：适应性，多样性和卓越性。为了实现我们的使命，北卡罗来纳大学BIRCWH计划将：1）为从事女性健康或性/性别研究的初级科学家提供职业发展辅导; 2）创建跨学科研究团队，以加强女性健康研究;和3）促进这些研究成果的翻译，以改善社区健康。我们预计，BIRCWH的毕业生将继续成为下一代的领导者，教师和导师在妇女的健康和性/性别研究在生物医学和制药行业。该课程是专门为每个学者的背景和培训。所有学者都参加了重点教学计划，并与来自多个学科的导师进行了深入的研究。在这次更新申请中，我们专注于几个关键的研究主题，同时强调健康和疾病中的性别/性别影响：1）影响女性的癌症; 2）营养，肥胖和糖尿病; 3）定量药理学; 4）传染病;和5）酒精/药物滥用/心理健康。这些主题与妇女的健康高度相关;典型的跨学科合作;并代表了主要的优势和研究重点领域。在这些关键领域和交叉学科中，许多国家和全球公认的科学家致力于指导我们的BIRCWH学者。在我们的前三个资助周期中，BARBIRCWH计划取得了巨大的成功。到目前为止，我们已经支持了33名初级教师，他们在学科，学术家，性别，种族和研究类型方面表现出广泛的多样性。他们的成功是压倒性的：我们的毕业生的90%有独立的联邦或行业赞助的资金，总共超过3500万美元的支持。此外，BIRCWH毕业生还担任许多领导职务，包括项目总监，研究副校长，临床和转化科学家发展副院长。我们的毕业生的成功最好地证明了妇女健康研究社区的BIRCWH计划的影响。我们相信，我们的方法推进我们的使命，以促进招聘，保留，并在妇女健康的生物医学事业的持续发展。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is for competitive renewal of UNC's BIRCWH Award. The mission of the UNC BIRCWH Program is to promote recruitment, retention, and sustained advancement of biomedical careers in women's health. Our Program philosophy is based on three central concepts: adaptability, diversity, and excellence. To achieve our mission the UNC BIRCWH program will: 1) provide mentored career development of junior scientists pursing women's health or sex/gender research; 2) create interdisciplinary research teams to enhance women's health research; and 3) facilitate the translation of these research findings to improve community health. We expect UNC BIRCWH graduates will go on to become the next generation of leaders, teachers and mentors in women's health and sex/gender research in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industry. The UNC BIRCWH curriculum is tailored to the background and training of each Scholar. All Scholars participate in focused didactic programs and have an intensive research experience with mentors drawn from multiple disciplines. In this renewal application, we have focused on several key research themes, while emphasizing sex/gender influences in health and disease: 1) Cancers Affecting Women; 2) Nutrition, Obesity, and Diabetes; 3) Quantitative Pharmacology; 4) Infectious Diseases; and 5) Alcohol/Substance Abuse/Mental Health. These themes are highly relevant to women's health; typify interdisciplinary collaboration; and represent major strengths and areas of research emphasis at UNC. Numerous nationally and globally recognized scientists in these key areas and in crosscutting disciplines have committed to mentoring our BIRCWH Scholars. During our first 3 cycles of funding, the UNC BIRCWH Program has been hugely successful. Thus far, we have supported a total of 33 junior faculty members who exhibit broad diversity in terms of discipline, academic home, gender, ethnicity, and type of research. Their success is overwhelming: 90% of our graduates have independent federal or industry-sponsored funding, totally over $35 million in support. Furthermore, BIRCWH graduates also hold many leadership positions, including Program Director, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Scientist Development. The success of our graduates best exemplifies the impact of the UNC BIRCWH Program on the women's health research community. We are convinced that our approach advances our mission to promote recruitment, retention, and sustained advancement of biomedical careers in women's health.