Minority Health International Research Training (MHIRT)

少数族裔健康国际研究培训 (MHIRT)

• 批准号: 7092095
• 负责人: CHARLES L ORTIZ
• 金额: $ 23.22万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7092095
• 关键词: Minority; Health; International; Research; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long term objective of the UCSC- MHIRT Research Program is to actively engage underrepresented minority students in on-going, long term international, biomedically and behavioral relevant research projects conducted in the natural environment in collaboration with students and faculty from the host country. With a long tradition of both graduate and undergraduate research training, UCSC offers challenging and unique biological field research opportunities that combine rich and stimulating cultural experience with productive and creative scientific research training. These experiences will provide UCSC-MHIRT students with broader international scientific and educational perspectives, increased self confidence and independence, plus substantial improvements in technical expertise. This has resulted in a satisfying increase in the number of our underrepresented minority students choosing advanced scientific training and consequently becoming the leadership of the next generation of biomedical scientists and academic faculty. The research will focus, primarily, on the biology of the several species along the Patagonian coast of Argentina and the Gulf of California in Sonora, Mexico as well as coastal New Zealand. In Mexico, MHIRT students will be involved in a long term, multidimensional investigation of the effects of runoff pollutants on the food web of the Gulf of California (Sea Of Cortex). The health of the food chain and fisheries of the Gulf of California has enormous health and economic consequences for the citizens of Mexico. The UCSC-MHIRT Program will not only make direct scientific contributions to these vital studies but will do so while providing MHIRT students with unique scientific training in a field of immediate biomedical relevance. In Argentina and New Zealand, studies will focus on physiological and behavioral studies several marine species, including the elephant seal. This species serves as an unexpected and unique model of mammalian obesity, and the physiology of long term food and water abstinence. Recently, studies have shown that these results have important clinical implications for several severe human pathologies that disproportionately impact U.S. minority populations and emerging countries of the Pacific Rim. These include: 1) morbid obesity and related conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and renal insufficiency; and 2) early childhood developmental pathologies resulting from malnutrition or starvation.

描述（由申请人提供）： UCSC-MHIRT 研究计划的长期目标是积极让代表性不足的少数族裔学生参与正在进行的、长期的国际、生物医学和行为相关的研究项目，这些项目是与学生和学生合作在自然环境中进行的。来自东道国的教师。 UCSC 拥有研究生和本科生研究培训的悠久传统，提供具有挑战性和独特的生物领域研究机会，将丰富和刺激的文化经验与富有成效和创造性的科学研究培训相结合。这些经历将为 UCSC-MHIRT 的学生提供更广阔的国际科学和教育视野，增强自信心和独立性，并在技术专业知识方面取得实质性进步。这导致我们代表性不足的少数族裔学生选择高级科学培训的人数显着增加，从而成为下一代生物医学科学家和学术教师的领导者。该研究将主要集中于阿根廷巴塔哥尼亚海岸、墨西哥索诺拉加利福尼亚湾以及新西兰沿海的几个物种的生物学。在墨西哥，MHIRT 学生将参与一项长期、多维的调查，研究径流污染物对加利福尼亚湾（皮质海）食物网的影响。加利福尼亚湾食物链和渔业的健康对墨西哥公民的健康和经济产生巨大影响。 UCSC-MHIRT 项目不仅将为这些重要研究做出直接的科学贡献，而且还将为 MHIRT 学生提供直接生物医学相关领域的独特科学培训。在阿根廷和新西兰，研究将集中于包括象海豹在内的几种海洋物种的生理和行为研究。该物种是哺乳动物肥胖以及长期禁食和禁水生理学的一个意想不到的独特模型。最近的研究表明，这些结果对几种严重的人类疾病具有重要的临床意义，这些疾病对美国少数族裔和环太平洋新兴国家的影响尤为严重。这些包括： 1) 病态肥胖及相关病症，如糖尿病、心血管疾病和肾功能不全； 2) 营养不良或饥饿导致的儿童早期发育病理。