Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Diversity Program (PURDIP)

匹兹堡本科生研究多样性计划（PURDIP）

• 批准号: 9017260
• 负责人: Solomon Fiifi Ofori-Acquah
• 金额: $ 15.14万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9017260
• 关键词: Address; African American; American; Area; Asthma; Basic Science; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Biology; Biomedical Research; Blood; Blood Vessels; Cardiology; Cessation of life; Clinical; Clinical Research; Clinical Sciences; Clinical Trials; Coagulation Process; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Environment; Ethnic group; Faculty; Health; Health Occupations; Health Sciences; Heart; Heart Diseases; Hematological Disease; Hematology; Hispanic Americans; Housing; Immersion Investigative Technique; Inherited; Instruction; Interview; Latino; Lung; Lung diseases; Medical; Medical center; Medicine; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; Mission; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Patients; Physicians; Population; Process; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Regenerative Medicine; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Risk; Schools; Science; Scientist; Services; Sickle Cell Anemia; Sleep; Sleep Disorders; Stroke; Students; Thalassemia; Thrombosis; Training; Training and Education; Transfusion; Translational Research; Underrepresented Minority; United States; Universities; Writing; abstracting; body system; career; career development; education research; ethnic disparity; experience; health disparity; high risk; high standard; higher education; improved; interest; lectures; medical schools; member; next generation; programs; role model; skills; success; summer research; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): African Americans and Latino/Hispanic Americans have a higher risk of death from heart disease and stroke than any other ethnic group in the US. These same ethnic groups are also at risk for many severe inherited blood disorders such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia, which are prevalent only in minority populations. Moreover, they are more likely than other ethnic groups to suffer common respiratory diseases such as asthma. Many of these diseases impact the heart, lung, and blood, which are the focus of cutting-edge research at the University of Pittsburgh. And they offer a unique platform to recruit underrepresented minority professionals into the health sciences. Importantly, diversity in the scientific workforce promotes the recruitment of the most talented researchers from all ethnic groups, and it improves the ability to recruit subjects from a diverse background in clinical trial, to collectively help to address and eliminate health disparity. Thus, we will establish the Pittsburgh Undergraduate Research Diversity Program (PURDIP), to prepare the next generation of URM physician-scientists, and basic and behavioral scientists, to help to eliminate health disparity in the US. We will achieve this objective by blending rigorous scientific tutelage with compassionate mentoring and role modeling to URM undergraduates who have an interest in science to prepare them for higher education. A total of seventy faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, and External Advisory Board members from a broad group of disciplines including cardiology, hematology, sleep, vascular biology, coagulation and thrombosis, transfusion medicine, and regenerative medicine are available to provide an array of basic, behavioral, translational and clinical research topics, and mentoring to carry out this project. Training will incorporate didactic lectures, seminars, workshops, group homework, hands-on research and presentations by the trainees. Three specific aims are proposed; a) to provide an intensive didactic and group- study course in fundamentals of biomedical and behavioral research and health disparity, b) to enhance the competitiveness of URM undergraduates to enroll in MD/PhD and PhD programs by enriching their portfolios with cutting-edge mentored research experiences, c) to help URM undergraduate students master the critical skills needed to navigate the application process for graduate and other health profession careers. All components of this program will be continuously evaluated to attain the highest standards of promoting diversity in health related research. (End of Abstract)

 描述（由适用提供）：非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔/西班牙裔美国人患心脏病和中风的死亡风险高于美国的任何其他种族。这些同一族裔也面临许多严重的遗传疾病，例如镰状细胞疾病和地中海贫血的风险，这些血液疾病仅在少数人群中很普遍。此外，它们比其他种族更有可能患有常见的呼吸道疾病，例如哮喘。这些疾病中的许多疾病会影响心脏，肺和血液，这是匹兹堡大学尖端研究的重点。他们提供了一个独特的平台，可以将代表性不足的少数群体专业人员招募到健康科学。重要的是，科学劳动力的多样性促进了所有种族最有才华的研究人员的招募，它提高了临床试验中潜水员背景的受试者的能力，以共同帮助解决和消除健康不足。因此，我们将建立匹兹堡本科研究多样性计划（PURDIP），以准备下一代URM身体科学家以及基本和行为科学家，以帮助消除美国的健康差异。我们将通过融合严格的科学指导来实现这一目标 富有同情心的指导和对URM大学生的榜样，他们对科学有兴趣为高等教育做好准备。匹兹堡大学总共有70位教职员工，以及来自广泛学科的外部顾问委员会成员，包括心脏病学，血液学，睡眠，血管生物学，凝结和血栓形成，输血医学和再生医学，可提供一系列基本，行为，翻译，翻译和临床研究概况，并进行此项目。培训将结合教学讲座，半手，讲习班，小组作业，动手研究和学员的演讲。提出了三个具体目标； a）在生物医学和行为研究和健康差异的基础上提供密集的教学和小组学习课程，b）增强URM大学生的竞争力来参加MD/PhD和博士学位课程，通过丰富其投资组合的培训经验，以帮助您的培养精神促进培养精通培养精力，并促进其他研究生的培训，以培养培养精力。该计划的所有组成部分都将不断评估，以达到促进与健康相关研究多样性的最高标准。 （抽象的结尾）