University of NewMexico/Harvard PREM: Leadership in Biomaterials

新墨西哥大学/哈佛大学 PREM：生物材料领域的领导地位

• 批准号: 0611616
• 负责人: Julia Fulghum
• 金额: $ 253.75万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0611616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: University; NewMexico; Harvard; PREM; Leadership

UNM/Harvard PREM: Leadership in BiomaterialsWe have established a research and educational partnership between the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at Harvard University, the University of New Mexico (UNM), the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) and the Albuquerque Public Schools (APS). This project, funded through the NSFs program on Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) will focus on a promising, multidisciplinary area of materials technology: biomaterials, which are materials (synthetic and natural; solid and sometimes liquid) used in medical devices or in contact with biological systems. While biomaterials represent a huge and rapidly growing economic component of our health care system (estimated at over $100 billion per year worldwide), they also provide an important context for increasing the relevance of materials research careers for students from under-represented groups. We are committed to this premise and have devised a plan for providing logical research connections with real-world issues in minority communities. This connection will allow us to efficiently utilize biomaterials technologies to motivate students from under-represented groups to pursue research careers. The partnership will integrate alliances with local educational institutions, focusing on education and training of minority students, teacher-education, team-based research, and professional development at all levels to result in substantive institutional and infrastructure development. This systematic approach will have an enormous impact by achieving the goals of the PREM in the short term, while guaranteeing an enduring legacy for the NSF investment in the form of an active, multi-faceted, biomaterials education and research program in the state of New Mexico.The component subprojects will be focused on developing new materials technologies for three areas of medicine that are especially problematic in minority populations: infectious diseases (inexpensive detection and diagnosis), cardiovascular diseases (tissue engineering approaches to small diameter vascular grafts and heart valves) and cancer (cost effective, individualized, genomic sequencing for diagnosis and prognosis). In each research project, multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional teams will be assembled to synergistically maximize research and training efforts while taking full advantage of the spectrum of state-of-the-art facilities available at Harvard and UNM.This project will have an immediate impact on the education of minority students by partnering APS, an urban school district with a large minority population, SIPI, a tribal college with an emphasis in science, technology, engineering and math education, UNM, a Hispanic Serving Research University, and Harvard University. We will work closely with a number of minority focused science and engineering organizations to both facilitate outreach activities with APS and to recruit talented students from UNM, SIPI and APS to participate in our research projects. Partnering with Harvard provides important access to enabling expertise and equipment to facilitate biomaterials research and education development in New Mexico. Students will benefit from this partnership with Harvard by gaining access to team-based research experiences, new course offerings, networks of research professionals, professional development resources, and community outreach experience. This combination of activities will be particularly well suited for encouraging our students to strive for the highest level of research and educational careers, especially in academia. We will actively promote materials research and education as an important and relevant emergent career field, and will track the number of students that ultimately make research and education their career choices. Critically, this project, by supporting the career development of several new faculty at UNM, will enable us to institutionalize biomaterials research and education as a pillar of the first significant biomedical engineering educational program in the state of New Mexico. Success with this program will not only benefit all of the institutions involved but will have the potential to positively impact the diversity of the nations human resource pool in materials science for many years to come. The partnership will establish an exemplary tradition in minority materials education and is a logical step in enhancing the educational research infrastructure in the state of New Mexico, while allowing us to become competitive for the highest level of NSF support.

新墨西哥大学/哈佛大学 PREM：生物材料领域的领导地位我们在哈佛大学材料研究科学与工程中心 (MRSEC)、新墨西哥大学 (UNM)、西南印度理工学院 (SIPI) 和阿尔伯克基大学之间建立了研究和教育合作伙伴关系公立学校 (APS)。该项目由美国国家科学基金会材料研究与教育合作伙伴计划 (PREM) 资助，将重点关注材料技术中一个有前景的多学科领域：生物材料，即用于医疗设备的材料（合成和天然；固体，有时是液体）或与生物系统接触。虽然生物材料是我们医疗保健系统中一个巨大且快速增长的经济组成部分（估计全球每年超过 1000 亿美元），但它们也为提高来自代表性不足群体的学生材料研究职业的相关性提供了重要背景。我们致力于这一前提，并制定了一项计划，为少数群体社区的现实问题提供逻辑研究联系。这种联系将使我们能够有效地利用生物材料技术来激励代表性不足群体的学生从事研究事业。该伙伴关系将整合与当地教育机构的联盟，重点关注少数民族学生的教育和培训、教师教育、团队研究和各级专业发展，以实现实质性的机构和基础设施发展。这种系统方法将通过在短期内实现 PREM 的目标而产生巨大影响，同时保证 NSF 投资以积极、多方面的生物材料教育和研究项目的形式在新州留下持久的遗产。墨西哥。组成子项目将侧重于为少数族裔尤其存在问题的三个医学领域开发新材料技术：传染病（廉价的检测和诊断）、心血管疾病（小直径血管移植物和心脏瓣膜的组织工程方法）和癌症（用于诊断和预后的成本效益、个体化、基因组测序）。在每个研究项目中，将组建多学科、多机构团队，以协同最大限度地发挥研究和培训工作的作用，同时充分利用哈佛和新墨西哥大学提供的最先进的设施。通过与拥有大量少数族裔人口的城市学区 APS、注重科学、技术、工程和数学教育的部落学院 SIPI、拉美裔服务研究大学 UNM 和哈佛大学合作，对少数族裔学生的教育产生直接影响 大学。我们将与一些以少数族裔为重点的科学和工程组织密切合作，促进 APS 的外展活动，并招募来自 UNM、SIPI 和 APS 的优秀学生参与我们的研究项目。与哈佛大学的合作提供了获得专业知识和设备的重要途径，以促进新墨西哥州的生物材料研究和教育发展。学生将受益于与哈佛大学的这种合作关系，获得基于团队的研究经验、新课程、研究专业人员网络、专业发展资源和社区外展经验。这种活动组合将特别适合鼓励我们的学生争取最高水平的研究和教育职业，特别是在学术界。我们将积极推动材料研究和教育成为一个重要且相关的新兴职业领域，并将跟踪最终选择研究和教育作为职业选择的学生数量。至关重要的是，该项目通过支持新墨西哥大学几位新教师的职业发展，将使我们能够将生物材料研究和教育制度化，作为新墨西哥州第一个重要生物医学工程教育计划的支柱。该计划的成功不仅将使所有相关机构受益，而且有可能在未来许多年对国家材料科学人力资源库的多样性产生积极影响。该伙伴关系将在少数族裔材料教育方面建立模范传统，是加强新墨西哥州教育研究基础设施的合理步骤，同时使我们能够在获得国家科学基金会最高水平的支持方面具有竞争力。