The University of Iowa IMSD: Iowa Biosciences Advantage

爱荷华大学 IMSD：爱荷华生物科学优势

• 批准号: 8537468
• 负责人: LORI C ADAMS-PHILLIPS
• 金额: $ 38.71万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8537468
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Iowa Biosciences Advantage (IBA) program operates under the aegis of The University of Iowa (UI) Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) grant. Its mission is to identify and competitively train academically talented underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates who have aspirations for research careers in the biomedical, behavioral, and biophysical sciences. For these students, the IBA program facilitates entry into doctoral programs by: 1) tailoring the plan of study for each studen to maximize academic performance, 2) providing a competitive and relevant research training experience from among the vast bioscience research opportunities at the UI, and 3) assuring access to a comprehensive four-year path focused on professional development. In the last funding period, the percentage of IBA graduates matriculating into doctorate programs has increased from 11% to 15%. Initially, our main difficulty was in the identification of undergraduate students with aspirations for careers in research versus the health professions. Despite the fact the mentored research is consistently ranked by the students as the most rewarding aspect of the program, the length of time in graduate school and the inability to perform patient based research hindered their pursuit of doctoral degrees. In the proposed project period, our goal is to expand on the successful initiatives currently in place in the IBA program, and to further add a fast-track path to the doctorate and a Certificate program in Translational Sciences that are initiated by the IBA program but will be institutional in nature. I Specific Aim 1, IBA will ensure successful preparation for pre-doctoral training, by fostering students' awareness of and interest in graduate education and academic/research careers, and enhancing the success of each student's application to doctoral programs in the biosciences by focusing on both academic and research development. Specific Aim 2 will develop and implement a pilot for a fast track to the doctorate program that would facilitate early admission into and completion of a doctoral program in the biomedical, behavioral, or biophysical sciences at UI. This will entail allowing highly competitive IBA Scholars to enter a doctoral program in Microbiology or Biochemistry after their third year of undergraduate study, simultaneously completing the undergraduate degree and the first year of a graduate degree. Specific Aim 3 will develop an undergraduate Translational Sciences Certificate program that would prepare students to transition from undergraduate research into doctoral programs focused on clinical and translational studies at CTSA-funded institutions, or other institutions that conduct translational studies. Utilizing faculty and staff expertise in outreach, selection, undergraduate student development theory and research, doctoral training, T32-based and other research funding, career development, translational research, responsible conduct in research, mentoring, and program evaluation, the IBA will benchmark success with at least 60% of IBA graduates going directly into doctoral programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：爱荷华州生物科学优势（IBA）计划根据爱荷华大学（UI）（UI）的宙斯盾（UI）倡议运作，以最大化学生发展（IMSD）赠款。它的使命是确定和竞争性地培训学术上有才华的少数民族（URM）本科生，他们对生物医学，行为和生物物理科学领域的研究职业有愿望。对于这些学生，IBA计划通过以下方式促进进入博士课程：1）为每个学习量化研究计划，以最大程度地提高学业表现，2）在UI的广泛生物科学研究机会中提供竞争性和相关的研究培训经验，以及3）3）确保综合的四年制专业发展方面的专业发展。在最后的资金期间，进入博士学位课程的IBA毕业生的百分比从11％增加到15％。最初，我们的主要困难是确定具有研究与卫生专业的职业志向的本科生。尽管这项指导的研究始终被学生排名为课程最有意义的方面，但研究生院的时间长度以及无法进行基于患者的研究阻碍了他们对博士学位的追求。在拟议的项目期间，我们的目标是扩大IBA计划中目前正在制定的成功举措，并进一步为IBA计划发起的转化科学博士学位和证书计划添加快速轨道，但本质上是机构的。我具体的目标1，IBA将通过培养学生对研究生教育和学术/研究职业的意识和兴趣，并通过专注于学术和研究发展，以增强学生对研究生教育和学术/研究职业的兴趣，并增强每个学生在生物科学中的博士课程中的成功。特定的目标2将开发并实施一名飞行员，以快速进入博士学位课程，该计划将有助于在UI的生物医学，行为或生物物理科学中提前入学和完成博士学位课程。这将允许竞争激烈的IBA学者在本科学习的第三年后进入微生物学或生物化学博士学位课程，同时完成本科学位和研究生学位的第一年。具体目标3将开发一项本科翻译学证书计划，该计划将使学生从本科研究过渡到专注于CTSA资助的机构的临床和转化研究的博士课程或其他进行转化研究的机构。利用教师和员工专业知识在外展，选择，本科生发展理论和研究，博士培训，基于T32的和其他研究资金，职业发展，转化研究，负责任的研究，指导和计划评估的负责人的行为，IBA将在至少60％的IBA毕业生直接进入博士学位的IBA毕业生中取得成功。