SPONSORED RESEARCH INFRASTUCTURE PROGRAM (SRIP): EARDA TRANSITION

描述(由申请人提供)：摩根州立大学校外伙伴发展奖(EARDA)的总体目标是在加强该大学受赞助的研究企业方面取得重大进展，并建立高质量的研究管理基础设施。特别是，它的目的是利用EARDA的支持和机构资源来增加大学的研究活力，特别是在生物医学和行为科学方面。自EARDA支持开始以来，该大学投入了大量内部资源，以加强其有形和方案基础设施。它的外部资金总额和提交的研究申请数量大幅增加，并开设了生物科学、公共卫生和工程学博士课程。目前的延续申请是一项为期两年的EARDA过渡支助申请，以帮助我们在前一个供资期间取得的进展的基础上再接再厉，并将已经取得的基础设施改进制度化。具体目标是：(1)授予教研员探索性研究的微型补助金，这是一项旨在吸引新的研究人员和研究想法的战略，从而扩大我们活跃的研究人员库，并产生更多的外部资金申请；(2)提供应用程序开发工作坊、研讨会和技术援助，这些在过去被证明在激发对赞助研究的兴趣方面是有效的，并向新手或缺乏经验的教职员工传播研究开发基础；(3)提供免费使用以订阅者为基础的研究资助数据库，如科学社区(COS)和赞助项目信息网(SPIN Plus)，这有助于主动寻找资助机会，确定潜在的外部合作者，并建立新的跨学科伙伴关系；(4)为电子研究管理的技术改进做出贡献；以及(5)建立研究中人类主体保护的结构和程序。我们的EARDA驱动的倡议将从一个咨询委员会--机构赞助研究咨询委员会(ISRAC)--的意见中获得信息，该委员会由高级行政人员和教师组成，就公共卫生相关研究机会和研究发展战略提供建议。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the Extramural Associates Development Award (EARDA) effort at Morgan State University is to attain significant progress toward strengthening the sponsored research enterprise at the University and to establish a high quality research administrative infrastructure. In particular, it aims to leverage EARDA support with institutional resources to increase the University's research vitality, especially in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Since the inception of the EARDA support, the University has invested significant internal resources to enhance both its physical and programmatic infrastructure. It has attained significant increases in total extramural funding and the number of research application submissions; and it has inaugurated doctoral programs in the biological sciences, public health and engineering. The present continuation application is a 2 -year request for EARDA transitional support to help us build on the progress we have made during the previous funding period, and to institutionalize the infrastructural enhancements already attained. The specific aims are: (1) to award faculty researchers mini-grants for exploratory research, a strategy designed to attract new investigators and research ideas, and thereby enlarge our pool of active researchers, and generate more applications for extramural funding; (2) to offer application development workshops, seminars and technical assistance, which have proven in the past to be effective in stimulating interest in sponsored research, and transmitting research development fundamentals to beginning or inexperienced faculty; (3) to provide free access to subscriber-based research funding databases such as Community of Science (COS) and Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN Plus), which facilitate proactive searches for funding opportunities, identification of potential external collaborators, as well as forging new cross-disciplinary partnerships; (4) to contribute to technology enhancements for electronic research administration; and (5) to establish structures and procedures for human subjects protection in research. Our EARDA-driven initiatives will be informed by input from an advisory board, the Institutional Sponsored Research Advisory Committee (ISRAC), consisting of senior administrators and faculty, to provide advice on public health related research opportunities and research development strategies.