Chang Sandra P, Braun Kathryn L, Yanagihara Richard, De Heer Hendrik, Wu Yan Yan, Chen Zhenbang, Cox Marc B, Gorniak Stacey L, Haddad Georges, Hohmann Christine F, Lee Eun-Sook, Stiles Jonathan K, Teufel-Shone Nicolette I, Nerurkar Vivek R
Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, John A Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health, Department of Publc Heath Studies, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2025 Jun 10;22(6):919. doi: 10.3390/ijerph22060919.
A principal strategic goal of the RCMI Coordinating Center (RCMI-CC) is to improve the health of minority populations and to reduce ethnic and geographic disparities in health by coordinating the development and facilitating the implementation of clinical research across the RCMI Consortium. To more effectively spur inter-institutional collaborative research, the RCMI-CC supports a Clinical Research Pilot Projects Program for hypothesis-driven clinical research projects proposed by postdoctoral fellows, early-career faculty and/or early-stage investigators from two or more RCMI U54 Centers. The purpose of this brief report is to summarize the Science Speed Dating sessions to facilitate cross-site collaboration at the RCMI Investigator Development Core (IDC) Workshop, held in conjunction with the 2024 RCMI Consortium National Conference. RCMI investigators and IDC Directors from 20 RCMI U54 Centers participated in two rounds of highly interactive small-group presentations of research ideas and resource needs in search of new collaborative and mentoring partnerships. Workshop participants expressed a high level of satisfaction with the speed-networking format and strongly agreed that the workshop was beneficial to their professional-development goals.
RCMI协调中心（RCMI-CC）的一个主要战略目标是，通过协调RCMI联盟临床研究的开展并推动其实施，改善少数族裔人群的健康状况，减少健康方面的种族和地域差异。为了更有效地促进机构间合作研究，RCMI-CC为博士后研究员、早期职业教师和/或来自两个或更多RCMI U54中心的早期研究者提出的假设驱动型临床研究项目，支持一项临床研究试点项目计划。本简要报告的目的是总结在与2024年RCMI联盟全国会议联合举办的RCMI研究者发展核心（IDC）研讨会上，为促进跨站点合作而开展的科学速配活动。来自20个RCMI U54中心的RCMI研究者和IDC主任参加了两轮高度互动的小组展示，展示研究想法和资源需求，以寻求新的合作和指导伙伴关系。研讨会参与者对快速建立联系的形式表示高度满意，并强烈认为该研讨会对他们的职业发展目标有益。
