Morehouse Cardiovascular Research Center of Excellence

描述（由申请人提供）：在健康和少数民族科学家的代表性不足的种族/民族差异的双刃剑问题是生物医学领域面临的两个最引人注目的挑战。少数群体服务机构利用不足 作为解决这些棘手问题的一部分。莫尔豪斯医学院（MSM）的核心使命是通过教育高比例的代表性不足的少数民族学生来扩大国家生物医学劳动力的多样性，并使他们成为科学领导者。男男性接触者的社会使命是致力于解决卫生不平等的“服务不足”。MSM是唯一定位为MSI利用这个PSO奖机制，建立卓越的NHLBI研究中心，在前沿发现科学，少数民族健康研究和培训代表性不足的少数民族调查员成为下一代科学领导者卓越。 支持性服务行为方案的长期目标与男男性行为者的使命完全一致，这促使行政领导层作出了强有力的机构承诺。我们的方法旨在通过将PSO计划资源集中在我们的三大资产上-我们的教师，我们的研究基础设施和我们未来的科学家来建立实力。因此，该PSO计划的三个主要目标是; 1）已经向CVRI背诵的“新调查员”的保留和职业发展，2）我们共享使用资源的持续增强，以及3）进一步完善我们的研究培训环境，为代表性不足的少数民族学生。这些目标将通过追求以下具体目标来实现：目标一：指导和发展一批有才华的研究人员，他们将成为独立研究项目和跨学科合作研究团队的领导者。 目标二：建立支持前沿心血管科学的技术和共享研究基础设施。 目标三：通过维持一个充满活力的知识环境，有利于培训和培养少数民族学生发展成为领先的研究人员，扩大生物医学研究界的种族/民族多样性。 目标四：开发创新的，跨学科的研究计划，整合基础，转化，临床和人口科学方法，以解决心血管健康的种族/民族差异。 相关性：生物医学研究界面临的两个最关键的问题是：1）与种族/民族有关的健康差异问题和2）缺乏少数民族科学家。一个关键的解决办法是在少数群体服务机构建立研究培训能力，这些机构教育了大量少数群体学生，并侧重于提高少数群体社区健康的创新转化研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The dual-edged problem of racial/ethnic disparities in health and the under-representation of minority scientists are two of the most compelling challenges facing the field of biomedicine. Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) are under-utilized as part of the solution to these vexing problems. The core mission of the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is to expand the diversity of the nation's biomedical workforce by educating a high proportion of under-represented minority students and prepare them to be scientific leaders. MSM's social mission is dedicated to addressing health inequities by 'serving the underserved'. MSM is uniquely positioned as a MSI to utilize this PSO award mechanism to establish a NHLBI Research Center of Excellence that is preeminent in leading-edge discovery science, minority health research and training under-represented minority investigators to emerge as the next generation of scientific leaders. The long-term goals of the PSO Program are well aligned with MSM's mission and this has engendered the strong institutional commitment of the executive leadership. Our approach seeks to build strength upon strength by focusing the PSO program resources on our three major assets ~ our faculty, our research infrastructure and our future scientists. Accordingly, the three major objectives of this PSO program are; 1) the retention and career development of 'new investigators' that have already been recited to the CVRI, 2) the ongoing enhancement of our shared-use resources, and 3) the further refinement of our research training environment for under-represented minority students. These objectives will be achieved by pursuing the following specific aims: Aim I: To mentor and develop a critical mass of talented investigators that emerge as leaders of independent research programs and cross-disciplinary, collaborative research teams. Aim II: To establish enabling technologies and a shared-use research infrastructure that supports leading- edge cardiovascular science. Aim III: To expand the racial/ethnic diversity of the biomedical research community by sustaining a vibrant intellectual environment conducive to training and nurturing the development of minority students into leading investigators. Aim IV: To develop innovative, cross-disciplinary research programs that integrate basic, translational, clinical and population science approaches to address racial/ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health. RELEVANCE: Two of the most critical problems facing the biomedical research community are: 1) the problem of health disparities related to race/ethnicity and 2) the lack of minority scientiss. A key solution is to build research training capacity at minority-serving institutions that educatea large proportion of minority students and are focused on innovative translational research that enhances the health of minority communities.