CTSA K12 Program at Virginia Commonwealth University

弗吉尼亚联邦大学 CTSA K12 项目

• 批准号: 10619075
• 负责人: SERGE PATRICK NANASINKAM
• 金额: $ 74.95万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-05 至 2028-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10619075
• 关键词: Award; COVID-19 pandemic; Characteristics; Clinical; Clinical Sciences; Communities; Development; Discipline; Endowment; Environment; Exposure to; Face; Faculty; Goals; Health; Health Promotion; Informatics; Institution; Life Cycle Stages; Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Program; Mentorship; Nature; North Carolina; Observational Study; Patients; Physicians; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Public Health; Reporting; Research; Research Training; Resources; Scientist; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training and Infrastructure; Translating; Translational Research; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virginia; career; career development; clinical application; clinical center; community based research; community engaged research; demographics; early-career faculty; experience; health disparity; health inequalities; human disease; improved; innovation; medical schools; pre-clinical; programs; recruit; rural underserved; translational pipeline; translational scientist; underserved community; urban underserved; virtual

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical importance of translational research to eradicate human disease, tackle emerging public health threats and promote health, especially in hard-to-reach communities that face health disparities. To take on these challenges, we need a diverse, well-resourced, and well-trained research workforce, as highlighted by the NIH Physician-Scientist Workforce report. 1 The VCU Wright Regional Center for Clinical and Translational Science (Wright Regional CCTS) serves a region in Central and Eastern Virginia and North Carolina that includes both rural and urban underserved communities and has vast experience serving a diverse community of patients who often face health disparities. The nature of our environment has driven the development of a research workforce that is prepared to meet the challenge of engaging and serving diverse patients. The Wright Regional CCTS serves as the hub for providing the translational research infrastructure for the training and career development of scholars through their professional life cycle. In addition, The Wright Center CCTS has a $32 million endowment with which we have established the first Wright Faculty Scholars in Health Disparities program. This program supports early career faculty from diverse backgrounds who are committed to better understanding the drivers and developing solutions to health inequities in our communities. Our existing partner institutions bring experience training the workforce across the translational spectrum with an emphasis on community engaged research (Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS)), informatics (Old Dominion University (ODU)) and mentorship (Virginia State University (VSU), an HBCU). Training scholars to translate research observations to clinical application in our unique communities is a priority for the proposed K12 Training Program. Our program will continue its commitment to providing early career faculty/late-stage postdoctoral fellows with a comprehensive “blueprint” for transitioning to research independence. We will recruit scholars from a pool of early career scientists who are diverse in both research discipline and demographics. Through integration with our UM1 and RC2 awards, K12 scholars will be exposed to an innovative and comprehensive program that supports 75% committed time to scholar specific domain expertise but also provides a combination of didactic, virtual, and experiential training in fundamental characteristics of the translational scientist. We will achieve our goals through the following specific aims: Aim 1: Prepare early career translational researchers for research independence through comprehensive, innovative, and individualized training in translational science. K12 scholars will be positioned to translate preclinical, clinical, and community-based research to improving health of all communities. Aim 2: Serve as an institutional resource for research career development and facilitate the creation of a diverse community of clinical and translational researchers through both internal and external partnerships.

COVID-19 大流行凸显了转化研究对于根除人类疾病的至关重要性。 疾病，应对新出现的公共卫生威胁并促进健康，特别是在难以到达的社区 为了应对这些挑战，我们需要多元化、资源充足和训练有素的人才。 正如 NIH 医师科学家劳动力报告 1 弗吉尼亚联邦大学赖特地区研究人员所强调的那样。 临床和转化科学中心（赖特地区 CCTS）为中部和东部地区提供服务 弗吉尼亚州和北卡罗来纳州，包括农村和城市服务不足的社区，拥有丰富的经验 为经常面临健康差异的多元化患者群体提供服务 我们环境的性质已经改变了这一点。 推动了研究队伍的发展，准备迎接参与和服务的挑战 赖特地区 CCTS 是提供转化研究的中心。 此外，为学者的职业生命周期提供培训和职业发展的基础设施。 莱特中心 CCTS 拥有 3200 万美元的捐赠，我们用它建立了第一个莱特学院 健康差异学者计划该计划支持来自不同背景的早期职业教师。 他们致力于更好地了解驱动因素并制定解决方案来解决我们的健康不平等问题 我们现有的合作伙伴机构带来了培训劳动力的经验。 重点是社区参与研究（东弗吉尼亚医学院（EVMS））， 信息学（旧道明大学（ODU））和导师（弗吉尼亚州立大学（VSU），HBCU）。 培训学者以我们独特的方式将研究观察转化为临床应用 社区是拟议的 K12 培训计划的优先事项，我们的计划将继续其承诺。 为早期职业教师/后期博士后研究员提供全面的过渡“蓝图” 为了研究的独立性，我们将从一批早期职业科学家中招募学者，他们在这两个方面都具有多样性。 通过与我们的 UM1 和 RC2 奖项整合，K12 学者将 接触创新和全面的计划，支持 75% 的学术时间 特定领域的专业知识，还提供教学、虚拟和体验式培训的结合 转化科学家的基本特征。 我们将通过以下具体目标来实现我们的目标： 目标 1：通过全面的、 K12 学者将被定位于翻译。 临床前、临床和社区研究，以改善所有社区的健康。 目标 2：作为研究职业发展的机构资源并促进创建多元化的人才 通过内部和外部合作伙伴关系的临床和转化研究人员社区。