Steering Undergraduate Interest in Environmental Health Sciences at the Universit

引导本科生对大学环境健康科学的兴趣

• 批准号: 7992459
• 负责人: Donald A. Sens
• 金额: $ 4.63万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2012-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7992459
• 关键词: Arsenic; Award; Biological Markers; Biomedical Research; Bladder Diseases; Breast Diseases; Cadmium; Cell physiology; Cellular Structures; Development; Disease; Ecology; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Pollutants; Fostering; Foundations; Health; Health Professional; Human; Institution; Kidney Diseases; Life; Names; North Dakota; Principal Investigator; Prostatic Diseases; Research; Research Infrastructure; Role; Schools; Students; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; design; environmental agent; experience; human disease; interest; programs; research study

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The University of North Dakota STEER is designed to support undergraduate training in the environmental health sciences within the University of North Dakota. The STEER training program will expand and compliment the ongoing NIH IDeA INBRE program that is focused on fostering undergraduate biomedical research at the State's primarily undergraduate institutions and the enhancement of the undergraduate pipeline to the health professional schools. The North Dakota INBRE is focused on "Health and the Environment". The present application is targeted at filling an important gap in undergraduate training in the environmental sciences not provided by the North Dakota INBRE program. This gap is the support of undergraduate environmental science training for undergraduate students at the INBRE host research-intensive institution, the University of North Dakota. The present application will use the INBRE foundation to initiate a strong undergraduate training program in environmental health science at the University of North Dakota. The research theme will be to advance the hypothesis that environmental agents which elicit human disease cause cellular alterations in cell structure and function that can be identified as predictive biomarkers of disease development and progression. To advance this theme, the students will be involved in research that studies the role of the environmental pollutants, arsenic and cadmium, in the development and progression of human bladder, breast, prostate, and renal disease. The aims of the program are: to provide an undergraduate research experience in environmental sciences to undergraduate students at the University of North Dakota; to provide an introduction to environmental health sciences to undergraduate students at the University of North Dakota; and, to use infrastructure developed in the INBRE program to support STEER programmatic efforts and vice versa over the life of the award mechanisms.

描述（由申请人提供） 北达科他大学的转向旨在支持北达科他大学环境健康科学的本科培训。转向培训计划将扩大和补充正在进行的NIH Idea Inbre计划，该计划的重点是在该州主要是本科机构的本科生生物医学研究中，并加强了卫生专业学校的本科生管道。北达科他州inbre专注于“健康与环境”。本申请的目的是填补北达科他州INBRE计划未提供的环境科学的本科培训的重要差距。这一差距是INBRE主机研究密集型机构，北达科他大学的本科生的本科环境科学培训的支持。本申请将利用inbre基金会在北达科他大学启动一项强大的环境健康科学本科培训计划。研究主题是推进这样的假设：引起人类疾病的环境因素会导致细胞结构和功能的细胞改变，这些改变可以识别为疾病发育和进展的预测生物标志物。为了推进这一主题，学生将参与研究环境污染物，砷和镉的作用，在人膀胱，乳房，前列腺和肾脏疾病的发展和发展中的作用。该计划的目的是：为北达科他大学的本科生提供环境科学的本科研究经验；为北达科他大学的本科生提供环境健康科学的介绍；并且，使用INBRE计划中开发的基础设施来支持奖励机制的一生中的转向计划工作，反之亦然。