CTSA K12 Program at Virginia Commonwealth University

2019冠状病毒病疫情凸显了转化研究对消除人类疾病的至关重要性。 疾病，应对新出现的公共卫生威胁和促进健康，特别是在难以到达的社区， 面对健康差距。为了应对这些挑战，我们需要一个多元化、资源充足、训练有素的 研究人员队伍，正如NIH物理学家-科学家劳动力报告所强调的那样。1、Wright Regional 临床和转化科学中心（赖特地区CCTS）服务于中部和东部地区 弗吉尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州，包括农村和城市服务不足的社区，并有丰富的经验 为经常面临健康差异的多样化患者社区提供服务。我们环境的性质 推动了一支准备迎接参与和服务挑战的研究队伍的发展 不同的病人。赖特地区CCTS是提供翻译研究的中心 为学者在其整个职业生涯中的培训和职业发展提供基础设施。此外，本发明还提供了一种方法， 赖特中心CCTS拥有3200万美元的捐赠，我们已经建立了第一个赖特学院 学者在健康差异计划。该计划支持来自不同背景的早期职业教师 他们致力于更好地了解我们国家卫生不平等的驱动因素，并制定解决方案， 社区.我们现有的合作伙伴机构为整个翻译行业的劳动力培训带来了经验 频谱，重点是社区参与研究（东弗吉尼亚医学院（EVMS））， 信息学（旧自治领大学（ODU））和指导（弗吉尼亚州立大学（VSU），HBCU）。 培训学者将研究观察转化为临床应用， 社区是拟议的K12培训计划的优先事项。我们的计划将继续致力于 为早期职业教师/后期博士后研究员提供全面的“蓝图”， 研究独立性。我们将从一群早期职业科学家中招募学者，他们在这两个方面都是多样化的。 研究学科和人口统计学。通过与我们的UM 1和RC 2奖项的整合，K12学者将 接触到一个创新和全面的计划，支持75%的承诺时间学者 具体领域的专业知识，而且还提供教学，虚拟和体验式培训的组合， 翻译科学家的基本特征。 我们将通过以下具体目标实现我们的目标： 目标1：通过全面的， 创新和个性化的翻译科学培训。K12学者将被定位为翻译 临床前、临床和基于社区的研究，以改善所有社区的健康。 目标2：作为研究职业发展的机构资源，促进建立多样化的 通过内部和外部合作伙伴关系，建立临床和转化研究人员社区。

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical importance of translational research to eradicate human disease, tackle emerging public health threats and promote health, especially in hard-to-reach communities that face health disparities. To take on these challenges, we need a diverse, well-resourced, and well-trained research workforce, as highlighted by the NIH Physician-Scientist Workforce report. 1 The VCU Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science (Wright Regional CCTS) serves a region in Central and Eastern Virginia and North Carolina that includes both rural and urban underserved communities and has vast experience serving a diverse community of patients who often face health disparities. The nature of our environment has driven the development of a research workforce that is prepared to meet the challenge of engaging and serving diverse patients. The Wright Regional CCTS serves as the hub for providing the translational research infrastructure for the training and career development of scholars through their professional life cycle. In addition, The Wright Center CCTS has a $32 million endowment with which we have established the first Wright Faculty Scholars in Health Disparities program. This program supports early career faculty from diverse backgrounds who are committed to better understanding the drivers and developing solutions to health inequities in our communities. Our existing partner institutions bring experience training the workforce across the translational spectrum with an emphasis on community engaged research (Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)), informatics (Old Dominion University (ODU)) and mentorship (Virginia State University (VSU), an HBCU). Training scholars to translate research observations to clinical application in our unique communities is a priority for the proposed K12 Training Program. Our program will continue its commitment to providing early career faculty/late-stage postdoctoral fellows with a comprehensive “blueprint” for transitioning to research independence. We will recruit scholars from a pool of early career scientists who are diverse in both research discipline and demographics. Through integration with our UM1 and RC2 awards, K12 scholars will be exposed to an innovative and comprehensive program that supports 75% committed time to scholar specific domain expertise but also provides a combination of didactic, virtual, and experiential training in fundamental characteristics of the translational scientist. We will achieve our goals through the following specific aims: Aim 1: Prepare early career translational researchers for research independence through comprehensive, innovative, and individualized training in translational science. K12 scholars will be positioned to translate preclinical, clinical, and community-based research to improving health of all communities. Aim 2: Serve as an institutional resource for research career development and facilitate the creation of a diverse community of clinical and translational researchers through both internal and external partnerships.