Building the Biomedical Research Infrastructure at New Mexico Highlands Univ.

描述(由申请者提供)：新墨西哥高地大学(NMHU)的首要目标是成为美国首屈一指的拉美裔服务机构。为了实现这一目标，该研究所必须建立其进行高质量生物医学研究的能力。在本申请中，NMHU提出了一个雄心勃勃、发展良好的互动计划，以实现这一目标。 拟议的NMHU RIMI计划的长期目标是改善和增强NMHU教职员工进行高质量和有竞争力的生物医学研究的能力。这包括巩固和加强NMHU生物医学研究人员，为NMHU活跃和学术的生物医学群体提供支持。通过为我们的教师提供从事生物医学研究的支持和机会，他们将能够成长为生物医学研究人员，并为更大的生物医学社区产生的进步做出贡献。通过为NMHU教员提供有效和高效地进行生物医学研究的手段，我们将提高他们的成功和生产率，从而改善我们研究所的整体生物医学研究基础设施和能力。我们相信，通过NMHU RIMI计划的建立，我们将能够为我们的教职员工和学生提供发起和从事新的生物医学研究计划的机会，使这些计划在更大的生物医学研究领域具有竞争力，并为他们提供获得校外资金的手段。为了实现这一应用的长期目标，我们将追求以下具体目标： 1.通过提供培训机会和具体活动，使NMHU的教职员工能够发展为生物医学研究人员，使他们能够建立具有竞争力和生产性的生物医学研究方案，特别是健康差距研究方案。 2.通过实施一系列旨在加强和发展国立卫生大学研究室和赞助方案的活动，提供一个促进和支持国立卫生大学生物医学研究的环境。 3.通过为生物医学研究实验室提供博士后研究员，他们将全职在这些实验室进行研究，以增加NMHU的生物医学研究活动。和 4.通过提供教学和行政援助，使NMHU的教职员工能够发展为生物医学研究人员，使他们有能力从事和建立新的生物医学研究项目。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) has as its primary goal to become the premier Hispanic-serving institution in the United States. To accomplish this goal, the Institution must build its capacity to conduct quality biomedical research. In this application, NMHU presents an ambitious, well developed, and interactive program for accomplishing this goal. The long-term objective of the proposed NMHU RIMI program is to improve and enhance the capability of NMHU faculty to conduct quality and competitive biomedical research. This includes solidifying and strengthening NMHU biomedical researchers to provide for an active and scholarly biomedical population at NMHU. By providing our faculty with the support and opportunity to engage in biomedical research, they will be able to grow as biomedical researchers and contribute to the advances generated from the greater biomedical community. By providing NMHU faculty with the means to conduct biomedical research effectively and efficiently, we will improve their success and productivity, and thereby improve the overall biomedical research infrastructure and capacity of our Institution. We believe that through establishment of the NMHU RIMI program, we will be able to give to our faculty and students the opportunity to initiate and pursue novel biomedical research programs, to make these programs competitive in the greater biomedical research arena, and to provide them the means by which they may obtain extramural funding. In order to achieve the long-term objectives in this application we will pursue the following Specific Aims: 1. To enable NMHU faculty to develop as biomedical researchers through the provision of training opportunities and specific activities that will allow them to establish competitive and productive biomedical, and specifically health disparity, research programs. 2. To provide an environment that promotes and supports biomedical research at NMHU by implementing a number of activities aimed at enhancing and developing the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at NMHU. 3. To increase the biomedical research activity at NMHU by providing biomedical research laboratories with Post- Doctoral Fellows who will work full-time conducting research in these laboratories. and 4. To enable NMHU faculty to develop as biomedical researchers by providing released time from teaching and administrative assistance so that they will have the ability to pursue and establish novel biomedical research programs.