Tulane Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH)

描述(由申请人提供)：这是杜兰BIRCWH计划的竞争性续签申请，该计划在过去4年中成功地培训了一批种族/民族和专业上不同的跨学科研究人员，研究妇女健康，并提高了杜兰大学对妇女健康研究的认识。我们现在建议在我们以往成功的基础上，扩大和加强BIRCWH的项目基础。长期目标是增加妇女健康方面训练有素的、具有文化能力的、独立的、跨学科的调查人员的数量和多样性，重点是心血管疾病(CVD)和相关疾病领域的性别差异研究。该计划侧重于心血管疾病及相关疾病，因为心脏疾病对妇女的影响，在整个研究范围内关于心血管疾病性别差异的现有知识差距，以及杜兰大学这一重点的优势。我们成功的职业发展计划的关键组成部分包括1)针对特定学者需求量身定做的教学课程；2)个性化的职业发展培训；3)BIRCWH系列研讨会；4)正在进行的工作会议；5)必需的拨款撰写和项目管理研讨会；6)有指导的跨学科研究；以及7)研究培训中负责任的行为。创新的方法包括通过两个职业发展轨道(第一轨道为研究经验有限的学者；第二轨道为有研究经验的学者)根据学者的需求定制计划，并为每个学者使用网络指导模式，包括基础科学和临床研究方面的专业知识。学者们立即接触到研究，并被引导及早建立学术记录，并通过积极参与妇女健康研究日获得演讲和组织技能。增强的BIRCWH计划的新组成部分包括更多的教师参与新的学科，通过网络指导增加基础科学家和临床研究人员之间的跨学科互动，加强与赛维尔的合作，赛维尔是一家历史上黑人、研究密集度较低的机构，以及更好地获得机构资源。奖学金获得者将学习尖端研究方法和技能，从BASE(细胞、分子和遗传学)，到床边(临床研究和临床试验)，再到人口(流行病学、预防和卫生服务研究)，并在有指导的跨学科环境中开展自己的研究项目，解决最新的世界卫生组织优先事项。SCARTER的跨学科研究活动将侧重于心血管疾病和相关疾病的性别差异及其风险因素，并解决主要主题(寿命、性别/性别决定因素、健康差异和跨学科研究)。我们建议对8名学院学者进行至少2-3年的培训(内科科学家最少培训3年)。正在进行的全面评估将指导改进该计划在为关注性别差异和心血管疾病的初级调查人员的研究培训和研究独立性方面所证明的有效性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing renewal application for the Tulane BIRCWH Program, which has successfully trained a racially/ethnically and professionally diverse group of interdisciplinary researchers in women's health and increased awareness of women's health research at Tulane over the last 4 years. We propose now to build on our prior success and expand and reinforce the BIRCWH program base. The long-term goal is to increase the number and diversity of highly trained culturally competent, independent, interdisciplinary investigators in Women's Health with an emphasis on Sex Differences research in the field of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and related diseases. The program focuses on CVD and related diseases because of the impacts of heart dis- ease on women, the existing knowledge gaps on the sex differences in CVD across the research spectrum, and the strength of this focus at Tulane. Key components of our successful career development plan include 1) didactic courses tailored to specific Scholar needs; 2) individualized career development training; 3) BIRCWH seminar series; 4) Work-in-Progress sessions; 5) required grant writing and project management workshops; 6) mentored interdisciplinary research; and 7) responsible conduct in research training. The innovative approach includes tailoring the program to Scholars needs via 2 career development tracks (Track 1 for Scholars with limited research experience; Track 2 for Scholars with prior research experience), and using a network mentoring model for each Scholar, including expertise in both basic science and clinical research. Scholars are immediately exposed to research and are guided to establish a scholarly track record early, and gain presentation and organization skills by active participation in the Women's Health Research day. New components of the enhanced BIRCWH program include additional faculty participation in new disciplines, in- creased interdisciplinary interactions between basic scientists and clinical researchers through network mentoring, strengthened collaboration with Xavier, a historically Black, less-research-intensive institution, and enhanced access to institutional resources. The Scholars will learn cutting-edge research methods and skills from Bench (cellular, molecular, and genetics), to Bedside (clinical research and clinical trials) to Population (epidemiology, prevention, and health services research) and conduct their own research projects in established laboratories/research groups in a mentored, interdisciplinary environment that address the most recent ORWH priorities. Scholar's interdisciplinary research activities will focus on sex differences in CVD and related diseases and their risk factors and address overarching themes (lifespan, sex/gender determinants, health disparities, and interdisciplinary research). We propose to train 8 faculty Scholars for a minimum of 2-3 years (3 years minimum for physician-scientists). Ongoing and comprehensive evaluation will guide improvements to the program's demonstrated effectiveness in bridging research training and research independence for junior investigators focused on Sex Differences and CVD.