The National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, a Community-wide Scientific Resource

国家显微镜和成像研究中心，社区范围的科学资源

• 批准号: 10399337
• 负责人: Mark H Ellisman
• 金额: $ 32.14万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10399337
• 关键词: Aging; Biomedical Research; Biomedical Technology; California; Communities; Disease; Evaluation; Funding; Guidelines; Health; Home; Imaging technology; Institution; Maintenance; Methods; Mission; Molecular Probes; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Performance; Preparation; Process; Recovery; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Services; Specimen; Structure-Activity Relationship; Technology; Universities; community engagement; computerized tools; cost; insight; microscopic imaging; novel; operation; programs; technology research and development

PROJECT SUMMARY AND ABSTRACT The National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research (NCMIR) at UC San Diego is a vital and unique NIGMS supported biomedical technology development research resource (BTRR). NCMIR is completing its 31st and final funded year of continuous operation and is thereby ineligible for renewal under new guidelines governing the P41 program. With this proposal, we request stabilizing support to help ease the transition of the Center to independent sustainability and to allow for the ordered completion of the resource’s existing pool of supported biomedical research projects. NCMIR’s mission is to advance the coordinated use of specialized molecular probes, novel specimen preparation methods, leading-edge microscopy and imaging technologies, and scalable computational tools to help investigators traverse difficult to navigate spatial and temporal scales, deliver new insight into multiscale structure/function relationships, and provide a fundamental understanding of the macromolecular mechanisms underlying many topics in health, disease, and aging. In transitioning the resource to a self-sustaining community-wide scientific resource, we provide details of our ‘Operation and Maintenance Plan’ to govern how the resource supports ongoing research users, prepares developed technologies for broad dissemination, and modifies its approach to community engagement to communicate offered technologies, services, and resources. We further establish a ‘Transition Plan’ to scale existing cost- recovery processes and put into place new mechanisms to stabilize support for the operation of the resource, buttressed by commitments from stakeholders within our home institution at the University of California, San Diego and the greater La Jolla mesa. Last, we establish an ‘Evaluation Plan’ to quantify and assess resource performance and impact on the community, putting forth both Short-term Internal Metrics, to optimize resource utilization and make ongoing improvements, and Long-term Objective Metrics, to gauge overall impact on the scientific community.

项目概要和摘要 加州大学圣地亚哥分校的国家显微镜和成像研究中心 (NCMIR) 是一个重要而独特的中心 NIGMS 支持的生物医学技术开发研究资源 (BTRR) 即将完成第 31 期。 以及连续运营的最后资助年份，因此没有资格根据新准则进行续约 通过此提案，我们请求稳定的支持，以帮助缓解 P41 计划的过渡。 以独立可持续性为中心，并允许有序完成资源的现有池 NCMIR 支持的生物医学研究项目的使命是促进专业技术的协调使用。 分子探针、新颖的标本制备方法、领先的显微镜和成像技术、 和可扩展的计算工具，帮助研究人员穿越难以导航的空间和时间尺度， 提供对多尺度结构/功能关系的新见解，并提供对 健康、疾病和衰老等许多主题的大分子机制。 资源到一个自我维持的社区范围的科学资源，我们提供我们的“运营和 维护计划”来管理资源如何支持正在进行的研究用户，准备开发 广泛传播的技术，并修改其社区参与沟通的方法 我们进一步制定了“过渡计划”以扩大现有成本。 恢复进程并建立新机制以稳定对资源运营的支持， 得到我们所在机构加州大学圣分校利益相关者承诺的支持 最后，我们制定了“评估计划”来量化和评估资源。 绩效和对社区的影响，提出短期内部指标，以优化资源 利用率并进行持续改进，以及长期目标指标，以衡量对 科学界。