Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health

建立妇女健康跨学科研究职业（BIRCWH）的广泛目标 位于丹佛的科罗拉多大学和健康科学中心（UCDHSC）的项目是开发和 增加高素质的年轻科学家和临床研究人员的人才库， 妇女健康的跨学科科学事业。在UCDHSC的BIRCWH赠款侧重于三个 影响妇女从怀孕前到衰老的整个生命周期的健康的相互关联的领域！这些领域 是：（1）妊娠、胎儿编程和哺乳，（2）衰老、心血管（CV）疾病、糖尿病和 肥胖和（3）女性癌症。这些都是UCDHSC具有强大的跨学科的领域 研究计划，从分子研究延伸到疾病的基本机制， 从临床研究到流行病学病因和结局分析。我们计划的关键要素是 （a）招聘具有不同种族和社会经济背景的BIRCWH学者 (b)由经验丰富的导师提供强有力的指导，年轻的调查人员将与他们配对;（c）建立 广泛的，合作的，跨学科的研究伙伴关系，将提供适当的个人咨询 （d）发展和利用方案咨询委员会（PAC） 由国内外著名科学家组成;（e）增加了一个新的共享资源 实验室提供目前无法向BIRCWH学者提供的领域的核心;（f）进入丰富的基础 研究资源，包括课程（必修和选修）以及实质性的核心 （g）极为强大的机构支持（知识和财政支持） 对于拟议的方案。UCDHSC BIRCWH计划将在发展中发挥主导作用， 一群成功的、强大的、独立的调查人员，他们的目标是通过研究来改善 女性的健康。

The broad objective of the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Program at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC) is to develop and increase the pool of highly-qualified young scientists and clinician-investigators pursuing independent interdisciplinary scientific careers in women's health. The BIRCWH grant at UCDHSC focuses on three interrelated areas affecting women's health across the life span from preconception to aging! These areas are: (1) Pregnancy, fetal programming, and lactation, (2) Aging, cardiovascular (CV) disease, diabetes and obesity and (3) Women's cancers. These are fields in which the UCDHSC has strong interdisciplinary research programs, extending from molecular research into the basic mechanisms of disease through clinical studies to epidemiological analyses of etiology and outcomes. The key elements of our program are commitments to (a) recruitment of BIRCWH Scholars with diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds (b) strong mentoring by experienced mentors with whom young investigators will be paired; (c) creation of broad, collaborative, interdisciplinary research partnerships that will provide appropriate individual advisory committees for BIRCWH Scholars; (d) development and utilization of a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) comprised of nationally and internationally distinguished scientists; (e) addition of a new shared Resource Laboratory to provide cores in areas not currently available to BIRCWH Scholars; (f) access to the rich base of research resources including coursework (both required and elective) as well as the substantial core facilities present at UCDHSC; and (g) extremely strong institutional support (both intellectual and financial) for the proposed program. The UCDHSC BIRCWH Program will play a leading role in the development of a successful cadre of strong, independent investigators whose goal through their research, is to improve the health of women.