USBJI Young Investigators Initiative Career Mentoring Program

该提案旨在为青年研究者倡议（YII）提供资金。YII是世界上 美国骨骼和关节倡议的旗舰计划，并建立了培训下一个 在准备高质量的拨款申请的艺术肌肉骨骼研究的一代。的 计划/会议在两个周末举行，间隔12-18个月。在YII的第一阶段，早期 阶段临床和基础科学研究人员学习提出假设驱动研究的原则， 准备重大和创新的赠款提案。他们被分配2-4名经验丰富的导师， 与他们一起开发研究问题。然后，年轻的研究人员撰写并提交一份资助申请。 在收到来自奖励机构的审查小组对他们的建议的批评后，他们返回第二次 YII计划的第二阶段（通常在12-18个月后）。在此阶段，参与者将学习如何响应 批判和完善应用程序。然后重新提交申请。该迭代过程 直到研究人员获得资金。 YII指导计划的成功是显著的。自2005年成立以来， 750名科学家申请了培训。378人被录取这些人收到了1104份 赠款总额超过2.8亿美元。融资成功率为55%。 YII强烈支持招募年轻基础和临床科学家的多样性。 51%的参与者是女性。我们确保儿童和家庭照顾及残疾人的安排 可在会场进入。此外，征聘任职人数不足的少数族裔候选人， 也是YII的一大特色。在这方面，YII利用了CTSA（临床转化 科学奖）机构，以确定潜在的少数民族候选人，并将在必要时免除任何费用， 这些人。 组成指导教师的科学家都是前NIH和CIHR研究部门的成员 有多年的经验。他们参加这个项目是自愿的。他们参加是因为 他们承诺保持新的肌肉骨骼研究人员的完整管道。大部分预算要求 本建议书所载的款项将用于支付学院的开支及购置会议场地。 总之，重要的是，我们提供尽可能好的培训，以促进年轻人的职业发展。 从事肌肉骨骼科学的研究人员。我们认为，青年研究者倡议，在 至少在某种程度上，实现了这一目标。

This proposal seeks funding to support the Young Investigator Initiative (YII). The YII is one of the flagship programs of the United States Bone and Joint Initiative and was established to train the next generation of musculoskeletal investigators in the art of preparing high quality grant proposals. The program/conference occurs over two weekends separated by 12-18 months. In the first phase of the YII, early stage clinical and basic science investigators learn the principles of proposing hypothesis-driven research and preparing significant and innovative grant proposals. They are assigned 2-4 experienced mentors who work with them in developing a research question. The young investigators then write and submit a grant proposal. After receiving a critique of their proposal from the awarding agency's review group, they return for the second phase of the YII program (usually after 12-18 months). In this phase, the participants learn how to respond to the critique and refine and improve the application. The application is then resubmitted. This iterative process continues until the investigator receives funding. The success of the YII mentoring program has been remarkable. Since its establishment in 2005, over 750 scientists have applied for training. 378 have been accepted. These individuals have received 1,104 grants totaling over $280 million dollars. The success rate for funding is 55%. The YII strongly supports diversity in recruiting young basic and clinical scientists into the program. 51% of the participants are female. We ensure that arrangements for child and family care and handicap access are available at the conference sites. Moreover, recruitment of under-represented minority candidates is also a major feature of YII. In this regard, the YII utilizes the NIH network of CTSA (Clinical Translational Science Award) institutions to identify potential minority candidates and will, if necessary, waive any fees for these individuals. The scientists that comprise the mentoring faculty are all former NIH and CIHR study section members with many years of experience. Their involvement in this program is voluntary. They participate because of their commitment to keep full the pipeline of new musculoskeletal investigators. Most of the budget requested in this proposal will be used to defray the expenses of the faculty and procure the conference venue. In summary, it is important that we provide the best possible training to advance the careers of young investigators working in the musculoskeletal sciences. We believe that the Young Investigator Initiative, at least in part, achieves this goal.