COBRE: The Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research

描述（申请人提供）：这项COBRE提案的主要目标是扩大特拉华州的生物医学和行为研究，特别关注指导女科学家在神经科学研究方面取得成功，特拉华州州立大学和特拉华州大学的一组女性神经科学家将建立一个多学科神经科学研究中心，其科学重点是神经发育和这是一项具有可塑性的计划，以及一项帮助女科学家晋升到专业高级职位的发展目标。特拉华州神经科学研究中心将追求三个目标：1）通过提供资金、支持和核心实验室资源，支持神经发育和可塑性的基础研究，将目标初级教师培养成独立的研究人员，成功地竞争联邦研究基金;（2）发展综合、指导和专业发展计划，在科学研究和赠款收购方面具有成熟历史的科学家将提供正式的科学和学术指导，初级女教师，以帮助他们在他们的职业生涯中前进，成为外部资助的研究人员; 3）加强研究基础设施和能力的历史上，黑人大学在神经科学研究和教育的新兴力量。COBRE计划将有两个重要的长期利益。首先，一个持续的，自我维持的，有竞争力的研究中心将被开发，这将促进神经科学的知识，并增加在特拉华州进行的多学科生物医学和行为研究的数量。第二，该中心将支持一批初级女教师成为R 01资助的调查人员，并在学术和科学上晋升到高级水平。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this COBRE proposal is to expand biomedical and behavioral research in the State of Delaware with a special focus on mentoring women scientists to successful careers in neuroscience research, A group of women neuroscientists at Delaware State University and the University of Delaware will establish a multidisciplinary center for neuroscience research with a scientific focus on neural development and plasticity, and a development goal of helping women scientists advance to senior levels of the profession. The Delaware Center for Neuroscience Research will pursue three aims: 1) To support basic research in neural development and plasticity by providing the money, support and core laboratory resources to develop targeted junior faculty into independent investigators who successfully compete for federal research funding; 2) To develop an integrated, mentoring and professional development program in which established scientists with proven histories in scientific research and grant acquisition will provide formal scientific and academic mentorship to junior women faculty to help them advance in their careers and become externally-funded researchers; 3) To strengthen the research infrastructure and capacity of an Historically-Black University with an emerging strength in neuroscience research and education. This COBRE program will have two significant long-term benefits. First, a continuing, self-sustaining, and competitive research center will be developed that will advance knowledge in neuroscience and increase the amount of multidisciplinary biomedical and behavioral research carried out in Delaware. Second, the Center will support a group of junior women faculty to become R01-funded investigators and advance to senior levels both academically and scientifically.