SACNAS for Increasing Diversity in Genomic Research

SACNAS 用于增加基因组研究的多样性

• 批准号: 7126479
• 负责人: Marigold L. Linton
• 金额: $ 25.86万
• 依托单位: SOCIETY FOR THE ADV CHICANOS/NATIVE AMER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-30 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7126479
• 关键词: Hispanic Americans; Native Americans; bioinformatics; career; education evaluation /planning; functional /structural genomics; genome; health science profession; health science research potential; postdoctoral investigator; postgraduate education; role model; science education; teacher; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Society for Advancement of Chicano and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) has extensive success and experience in increasing minority participation in science. The long-term objective of this proposal is to increase the number of Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans engaged in genomic research. This will be accomplished by 1) developing and implementing programs to make Chicanos/Latinos and Native Americans aware of Human Genome research, 2) develop Chicano and Native American scientists in Human Genome Research, 3) provide activities that will lead to an increase in the number of competitively prepared human genome scientists from this community. The rationale for the proposed activities in this application is that without early, specific and well thought-out interventions, and without opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and faculty to take part in career and educational development, our target communities will remain underrepresented in all aspects of genomic research. The specific aims are: 1) to provide undergraduate students with the opportunities to develop an understanding of and competence in genomics/bioinformatics research. 2) to provide graduate students with support to pursue genomic/bioinformatics research. 3) support faculty at minority serving institutions to gain skills and develop research interests in genomic/bioinformatics research. The hypothesis to be tested is that, with the active mentoring, career development, and specific interventions provided by SACNAS as supported by NHGRI, undergraduate, graduate, and professional minority scientists will be retained in this ever important and emerging field and will achieve excellence in this endeavor. SACNAS has the professional and student base to draw on and is well positioned to successfully develop this pipeline program. The result stemming from these proposed activities will be an increase in the numbers of Chicano/Latino and Native American professionals and students that are involved in genomics and bioinformatics research. These activities will comprise the first focused efforts to address the issue of low rates of participation of Chicano/Latino and Native American professionals and students in genomics and bioinformatics research. The activities shown to be successful here will establish paradigms that can be applied for the advancement of underrepresented subsets of our population in other disciplines.

描述（由申请人提供）：奇卡诺和美洲原住民科学促进会 (SACNAS) 在提高少数族裔参与科学方面取得了广泛的成功和经验。该提案的长期目标是增加从事基因组研究的奇卡诺/拉丁裔和美洲原住民的数量。这将通过以下方式实现：1) 制定和实施计划，使奇卡诺人/拉丁裔人和美洲原住民了解人类基因组研究，2) 培养从事人类基因组研究的奇卡诺人和美洲原住民科学家，3) 开展活动，提高来自这个社区的许多有竞争力的人类基因组科学家。本申请中拟议活动的基本原理是，如果没有早期、具体和深思熟虑的干预措施，并且没有本科生和研究生、研究人员和教师参与职业和教育发展的机会，我们的目标社区将在基因组研究的各个方面。具体目标是：1）为本科生提供了解基因组学/生物信息学研究并提高其能力的机会。 2）为研究生进行基因组/生物信息学研究提供支持。 3) 支持少数民族服务机构的教师获得基因组/生物信息学研究的技能并发展研究兴趣。需要检验的假设是，在 NHGRI 的支持下，通过 SACNAS 提供的积极指导、职业发展和具体干预措施，本科生、研究生和专业少数族裔科学家将留在这个日益重要的新兴领域，并在以下方面取得卓越成就：这一努力。 SACNAS 拥有可供利用的专业人士和学生基础，并且处于成功开发该管道计划的有利位置。这些拟议活动的结果将是参与基因组学和生物信息学研究的奇卡诺/拉丁裔和美洲原住民专业人士和学生的数量增加。这些活动将包括首次集中努力解决奇卡诺/拉丁裔和美洲原住民专业人士和学生参与基因组学和生物信息学研究的参与率低的问题。这里显示的成功活动将建立可应用于其他学科中代表性不足的人口子集的进步的范例。