WRHR - A Mentoring Program in Women's Reproductive Health Research at the Univers

WRHR - 大学妇女生殖健康研究的指导计划

• 批准号: 8136293
• 负责人: IRA MARK BERNSTEIN
• 金额: $ 47.51万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT & ST AGRIC COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-30 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8136293
• 关键词: Advisory Committees; Aging; Applications Grants; Benchmarking; Clinical Sciences; Commit; Communicable Diseases; Country; Development; Developmental Biology; Discipline of obstetrics; Endocrine; Enrollment; Ethics; Experimental Designs; Extramural Activities; Female; Foundations; Funding; Genetic; Genital system; Grant; Gynecology; Individual; Institution; Instruction; Manuscripts; Mentors; Metabolism; Monitor; Physicians; Preparation; Process; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Reproductive Health; Reproductive Immunology; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Scientist; Signal Transduction; Smooth Muscle; Structure; Time; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Vascular Diseases; Vermont; Woman; Women' s Health; Work; career development; college; experience; member; multidisciplinary; programs; reproductive

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the University of Vermont is committed to the career development of physician-scientists with an emphasis on Women's Health. To this end we have assembled a multidisciplinary group of 20 experienced investigators, who will serve as mentors, and a nine-member Advisory Committee, and are applying for the WRHR Career Development Program grant to formalize and facilitate the training process. Each mentor has an active, funded research program in one of five scientific themes that reflects the research strengths of our Institution, and around which our training efforts will be structured - female vascular diseases, genital tract smooth muscle contractility, reproductive immunology and infectious disease, genetics and developmental biology, and endocrine signaling related to metabolism and aging. WRHR scholars will include women and under-represented minorities, and be recruited from our Department and from OB/GYN training programs in our region and throughout the country. The training process will include instruction in grant and manuscript preparation and review, experimental design and statistical analysis, and the responsible and ethical conduct of research. The University of Vermont Center for Clinical and Translational Science and the Graduate College will provide a foundation of elective courses required for performing successful research. Direct experience in the process of research will be obtained under the guidance of the primary mentor. We have created a two-track plan for individuals with little vs. substantial previous research experience. Defined benchmarks for progress, including early formalization of specific aims, seminar presentation, and a formal review process will help monitor and assure each individual's progress. Each Scholar will have the opportunity to attend and present their work. We anticipate enrollment of three WRHR Scholars at any one time, and completion of training in 3-5 years with the end point for each scholar being the development of his/her own scientific ideas and submission of grant applications for extramural funding. PUBLIC RELEVANCE: This is a proposal to increase the number of committed and qualified physician scientists devoted to the betterment of women's health through high quality and ethical research.

描述（由申请人提供）：佛蒙特大学妇产科和生殖科学系致力于医师科学家的职业发展，重点关注女性健康。为此，我们组建了一个由 20 名经验丰富的研究人员组成的多学科小组（他们将担任导师）和一个由 9 名成员组成的咨询委员会，并正在申请 WRHR 职业发展计划拨款，以规范和促进培训过程。每位导师都有一个活跃的、受资助的研究项目，涉及五个科学主题之一，反映了我们机构的研究优势，我们的培训工作将围绕这些主题进行——女性血管疾病、生殖道平滑肌收缩力、生殖免疫学和传染病，遗传学和发育生物学，以及与新陈代谢和衰老相关的内分泌信号。 WRHR 学者将包括女性和代表性不足的少数族裔，并从我们部门以及我们地区和全国各地的妇产科培训项目中招募。培训过程将包括资助和稿件准备和审查、实验设计和统计分析以及负责任和道德的研究行为的指导。佛蒙特大学临床和转化科学中心和研究生院将提供成功研究所需的选修课程基础。研究过程中的直接经验将在主要导师的指导下获得。我们为之前研究经验很少或丰富的个人制定了一个双轨计划。明确的进展基准，包括尽早正式确定具体目标、研讨会演示和正式审查流程，将有助于监控和确保每个人的进展。每位学者都有机会参加并展示他们的工作。我们预计可同时招募三名 WRHR 学者，并在 3-5 年内完成培训，每位学者的最终目标是发展自己的科学思想并提交校外资助的拨款申请。 公共相关性：该提案旨在增加致力于通过高质量和道德研究改善女性健康的忠诚且合格的医师科学家的数量。