MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH APPRENTICE PROGRAM

少数民族高中生研究学徒计划

• 批准号: 3510423
• 负责人: Alan M Goldberg
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-03-01 至 1992-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3510423
• 关键词: minority institution research support; recombinant DNA; secondary schools

The first five years of the RCMI initiative saw the creation of the Center for the Study of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development at City College. The Center, built on the existing strengths of the College in the RCMI-supported areas, was enriched by the addition of eight new faculty members (three of whom are Black) in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry and seven new faculty in the CUNY Medical School. There are now 25 researchers participating in the Center grouped in three scientific areas--Biomolecular Structure and Function, Gene Expression and Regulation, and Cell and Organism Function. Major equipment purchases and the creation of central facilities further enhanced the activity within the Center. The College, with a historic commitment to academic excellence and broad access, offers our students, more than 60% of whom are Black and Hispanic, unique opportunities for development. Our faculty provides role models for scientific excellence and achievement to under-graduates and graduate students alike. The Center now proposes to move to a new level of scientific attainment and to use that status in a strenuous effort to identify and attract increasing numbers of minority undergraduate and graduate students. To do this, the Center needs to hire additional faculty in key areas, acquire major equipment and provide new technical support personnel, including post-doctoral research fellows and technicians to maintain and operate the increasingly sophisticated state-of-the research equipment. In addition to the main scientific areas, the unique skills of Center faculty are being marshalled to pursue several AIDS-related projects concerning the properties of the AIDS-related organism Pneumocystis carinii and concerning the immunological response to the HIV virus itself. Projected additions to the RCMI faculty include a senior molecular biologist to serve as Project Director, an X-ray crystallographer, a specialist in physical characterization of biomolecules, a molecular geneticist and a neurobiologist. These scientists will provide breadth that will complement the existing areas. Major equipment purchases include an automatic sequencer and a polymerase chain reaction thermal cycler.

RCMI 倡议的前五年见证了该中心的创建 研究城市发展的细胞和分子基础 大学。 该中心以学院现有的优势为基础 RCMI 支持的领域，通过添加八个新的领域而得到丰富 生物系的教职人员（其中三名黑人） 和化学以及纽约市立大学医学院的七名新教员。 有 现在该中心有 25 名研究人员参与，分为三个科学组 领域--生物分子结构和功能、基因表达和 调节、细胞和生物体功能。 主要设备采购及 中央设施的建立进一步加强了内部活动 中心。 学院历史悠久地致力于学术卓越和广泛 为我们的学生提供访问权，其中 60% 以上是黑人和西班牙裔， 独特的发展机遇。 我们的教师提供榜样 为本科生和研究生提供科学卓越和成就 学生都一样。 该中心现提议将科学成就提升到一个新的水平 并利用这种地位来努力识别和吸引 少数民族本科生和研究生数量不断增加。 为此，该中心需要在关键领域雇用更多的教职人员， 购置主要设备并提供新的技术支持人员， 包括博士后研究员和技术人员来维护和 操作日益复杂的最先进的研究设备。 除了主要的科学领域外，中心的独特技能 教职人员正在组织开展几个与艾滋病相关的项目 关于与艾滋病相关的肺孢子菌的特性 carinii 以及对 HIV 病毒本身的免疫反应。 RCMI 教员的预计新增成员包括一名高级分子 生物学家担任项目总监、X 射线晶体学家、 生物分子物理表征专家，分子 遗传学家和神经生物学家。 这些科学家将提供广度 这将补充现有领域。 主要设备采购 包括自动测序仪和聚合酶链反应热 循环仪。