MBRS SCORE at California State University, Northridge

该计划的目标是提高加州州立大学（CSUN）的研究能力， 这将有助于改善基础设施，并增加少数群体对基础生物医学研究的参与。大多数 就读于北岭加州州立大学的学生是少数民族（39.8%是 代表性不足的少数民族; 2004年秋季大学入学人数为31，312人）。这将直接影响 加强少数群体参与科学。提高教师和学生的研究能力：这 建议的MBRS SCORE计划包括18个完整的SCORE建议和3个试点SCORE建议。的 建议的项目来自不同的领域，包括理论和材料物理，细胞，生理， 遗传和发育生物学、化学和生物化学、疾病过程以及社会和神经心理学。 改善研究基础设施：尖端研究需要仪器， 昂贵且复杂。成功完成本提案中包含的项目需要 专业仪器。我们请求支持购买设备， 测序设施的最新和开始其转化为中心的细胞，遗传， 分子分析。满足以下项目提案中提出的具体成果将实现 MBRS SCORE计划的使命是“.大大提高研究能力 少数民族和为少数民族服务的机构增加代表性不足的少数民族的数量 参与生物医学和行为研究。“NIH为CSUN SCORE提供的资金 该计划将提高在PIS实验室进行的生物医学研究的质量和数量 在受影响的部门。我们预计，12个拟议的评分PI将达到一个点，在他们的 研究的职业生涯后，这一轮的评分，他们将能够成功地竞争R 01型的 研究支持。学生，其中许多人在基础生物医学科学中的代表性不足，在这些 各部门将有机会参与一流的研究，将在 SCORE支持的实验室。

The goals of this program are to improve California State University's (CSUN) research capacity and infrastructure and to increase minority participation in basic biomedical research. The majority of the students who attend California State University, Northridge are ethnic minorities (39.8% are underrepresented minorities; University enrollment 31,312, Fall 2004). There will be a direct effect on enhancing minority participation in science. Improving research capacity of faculty and students: This proposed MBRS SCORE program includes 18 full SCORE proposals and 3 Pilot SCORE proposals. The proposed projects are from diverse fields including theoretical and materials physics, cellular, physiological, genetic, and developmental biology, chemistry and biochemistry, disease processes and social and neuropsychology. Improving the research infrastructure: Cutting edge research requires instrumentation that is expensive and complex. The successful completion of projects included in this proposal requires specialized instruments. We are requesting support to purchase equipment that will bring the DNA sequencing facility up to date and to begin its transformation into a Center for Cellular, Genetic, and Molecular Analysis. Meeting the specific outcomes presented in the following project proposal will fulfill the mission of the MBRS SCORE program which is to "...significantly improve the research capabilities of minority and minority-serving institutions... to increase the number of underrepresented minorities participating in biomedical and behavioral research." The funding provided by the NIH for the CSUN SCORE program will improve the quality and quantity of biomedical research conducted in the laboratories of the Pis and in the affected departments. We expect that 12 of the proposed SCORE Pis will arrive at a point in their research careers after this round of SCORE that they will be able to successfully compete for R01-type of research support. The students, many of whom are underrepresented in basic biomedical sciences, in these departments will have the opportunity to become engaged in top-notch research that will be conducted in SCORE supported laboratories.