Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC)

描述（由申请人提供）：波多黎各临床和转化研究联盟（PRCTRC）是一种创新的合作模式，汇集并利用了波多黎各三个主要医疗和健康科学中心的智力和物质资源：波多黎各大学医学院（UPRMSC），加勒比中央大学（UCC），和医学与健康科学的庞塞学院（PSM&HS），以解决和减少最影响西班牙裔人口的健康差距。其使命是作为一个至关重要的催化因素，努力了解， 定义并解决西班牙裔人口的健康差异。我们的努力是由四个战略目标指导：1）通过建立一个集中的计划，重点是减少西班牙裔人口之间的健康差距，促进知识的产生和翻译从板凳到社区; 2）加强和支持现有的培训和指导计划，以增加新的少数民族研究者在临床和转化研究的数量; 3）鼓励基础、临床和社会科学家以及社区网络和卫生项目之间的合作;和4）的方法加强和整合波多黎各现有的临床和转化研究基础设施，以支持和扩大健康差异的临床和转化研究。跨临床和转化研究连续体的研究，重点是对西班牙裔健康构成最大威胁的四种疾病状态：艾滋病毒/艾滋病，神经系统疾病，心血管和代谢疾病以及癌症。PRCTRC通过九个核心为研究者提供这种综合基础设施：监管知识和支持，研究设计和生物统计学，临床研究资源和设施，核心实验室的技术资源，生物医学信息学，合作和伙伴关系，专业发展，临床和转化试点项目计划，以及基于社区的研究。监督由行政核心提供，形成性和总结性评价由评价核心提供。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC) is an innovative model of collaboration, bringing together and leveraging the intellectual and physical resources of three major medical and health science centers in Puerto Rico: The University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus (UPRMSC), the Universidad del Caribe Central (UCC), and the Ponce School of Medicine & Health Sciences (PSM&HS) to address and reduce health disparities that most impact Hispanic populations. The mission is to serve as a vital and catalytic element in the efforts to understand, define, and address health disparities in Hispanic populations. Our efforts are guided by four strategic goals: 1) Facilitate the generation and translation of knowledge from the bench into the community by establishing a centralized program focused on reducing health disparities among Hispanic populations; 2) Enhance and support existing training and mentoring programs to increase the number of new minority investigators in Clinical and Translational Research; 3) Encourage collaborations among basic, clinical, and social scientists and community networks and health programs; and 4) Enhance and integrate existing infrastructure for clinical and translational research across Puerto Rico to support and expand Clinical and Translational Research in health disparities The PRCTRC has fostered a synergistic environment that supports research across the clinical and translational research continuum, with an emphasis on four disease states that post the greatest threats to Hispanic health: HIV/AIDS, neurological diseases, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and cancer. The PRCTRC provides this integrated infrastructure to investigators through nine Cores: Regulatory Knowledge and Support, Research Design and Biostatistics, clinical Research Resources and Facilities, Technology Resources for Core Laboratories, Biomedical Informatics, Collaborations and Partnerships, Professional Development, Clinical and Translational Pilot Project Program, and Community-based Research. Oversight is provided by an Administrative Core and formative and summative evaluation is provided by an Evaluation Core.