Build-out of an Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience Facility for Hispanic Health Disparities at UTEP

在 UTEP 为西班牙裔健康差异建立影像和行为神经科学设施

• 批准号: 10374638
• 负责人: Michael J Kenney
• 金额: $ 507.75万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS EL PASO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2024-09-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10374638
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Area; Behavioral; Biomedical Research; Brain imaging; Collaborations; Complex; Core Facility; Floor; Funding; Gap Junctions; Goals; Health; Healthcare Systems; Hispanics; Image; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Mexican; Mexico; Mission; Neurosciences; Osteopathic Medicine; Persons; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Pre-Clinical Model; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Sampling; Texas; Training; United States; Universities; behavior test; college; education research; health disparity; high resolution imaging; imaging facilities; medical schools; next generation; preclinical development; tumor; Address; Affect; Area; Behavioral; Biomedical Research; Brain imaging; Collaborations; Complex; Core Facility; Floor; Funding; Gap Junctions; Goals; Health; Healthcare Systems; Hispanics; Image; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Mexican; Mexico; Mission; Neurosciences; Osteopathic Medicine; Persons; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Pre-Clinical Model; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Sampling; Texas; Training; United States; Universities; behavior test; college; education research; health disparity; high resolution imaging; imaging facilities; medical schools; next generation; preclinical development; tumor

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of this proposal is to obtain funding to build-out existing shell space in the new interdisciplinary research building (IDRB) recently constructed on the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) campus, and commission it according to its proposed usage as an Imaging and Behavioral Neuroscience (IBN) Facility. This facility will serve as a focal point in our region for education and biomedical research that addresses health issues affecting people living on the United States (U.S.)-Mexico border region, which has a predominant Mexican-origin Hispanic population. Hispanic persons live with marked health disparities, and reducing Hispanic health disparities is important to regional and national healthcare systems as Hispanic persons are the largest and fastest growing ethnic demographic in the U.S. UTEP has been strategic in its mission as an Institution of Emerging Research Excellence to facilitate biomedical research initiatives and train the next generation of biomedical researchers, and much of this effort has centered on the Border Biomedical Research Center which has provided core facility support for UTEP investigators. In a strategic initiative to expand the capacity for and accelerate the completion of collaborative research initiatives, an Interdisciplinary Research Building, funded with state of Texas appropriated funds, has recently been completed on the UTEP campus and the proposed facility will be located on the first floor of the building. The IBN Facility will provide high-capacity behavioral tests and high-throughput imaging with high-resolution imaging of brain circuits and tumor samples to provide an integrated analytical platform that significantly advances the current UTEP biomedical research infrastructure. This new facility is a first of its kind in our region and will expand biomedical-related interdisciplinary research across multiple UTEP Colleges as well as strengthen collaborations with our local Texas Tech and Burrell Osteopathic Medical Schools. The long-term goal is to establish an Imaging Facility that serves as a nexus for interdisciplinary and vertically-integrated research, that will exert a sustained and powerful influence by 1) facilitating the development of pre-clinical models as platforms for potential translational contributions, and 2) developing interdisciplinary research teams that can address increasingly complex and impactful investigative areas, thereby positioning UTEP at the leading edge of biomedical research associated with pre-clinical models of Hispanic health disparities.

项目摘要 该提案的目的是获得资金，以在新的跨学科研究中建立现有的外壳空间 最近在德克萨斯大学El Paso（UTEP）校园建造的建筑物（IDRB），并委托它 根据其提议用作成像和行为神经科学（IBN）设施的用法。这个设施将服务 作为我们地区的教育和生物医学研究的重点，该研究解决了影响人们的健康问题 居住在美国（美国） - 墨西哥边境地区，该地区主要是墨西哥 - 伊利素西班牙裔的墨西哥边境地区 人口。西班牙裔人生活有明显的健康差异，减少西班牙裔健康差异是 对于西班牙裔人来说，对区域和国家医疗保健系统很重要 美国UTEP的族裔人口在其任务中一直是一项新兴研究机构的战略性 促进生物医学研究计划并培训下一代生物医学研究人员的卓越性 这项工作的大部分都集中在边境生物医学研究中心，该研究中心提供了核心设施 支持UTEP调查人员。为了扩大完成能力并加速完成的战略倡议 由得克萨斯州资助的跨学科研究大楼协作研究计划 拨款资金，最近已在UTEP校园完成，拟议的设施将定位 在建筑物的一楼。 IBN设施将提供高容量的行为测试和高通量 具有对脑回路和肿瘤样品的高分辨率成像的成像，以提供集成的分析 平台可显着提高当前的UTEP生物医学研究基础设施。这个新设施是 首先在我们地区，并将扩大与生物医学相关的跨学科研究 大学，并加强与我们当地的德克萨斯理工学院和Burrell骨病医学的合作 学校。长期目标是建立一个成像设施，该设施是跨学科和 垂直综合的研究将通过1）促进发展产生持续和强大的影响 临床前模型作为潜在翻译贡献的平台，2）发展跨学科 可以解决越来越复杂和有影响力的调查领域的研究团队，从而定位 UTEP处于与西班牙裔健康前临床模型相关的生物医学研究的前沿 差异。