{"id":3349,"date":"2020-01-24T19:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T00:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/?page_id=3349"},"modified":"2025-04-28T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:39:58","slug":"anatomy-of-an-arc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/the-arcs\/anatomy-of-an-arc\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of an ARC: A Road to Convergence Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2023\/06\/Anatomy-of-an-ARC-2023-283x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4385 aligncenter\" width=\"558\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2023\/06\/Anatomy-of-an-ARC-2023-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2023\/06\/Anatomy-of-an-ARC-2023-768x814.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/files\/2023\/06\/Anatomy-of-an-ARC-2023.png 928w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>The Major Goals of the Evans Center and the Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs):<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Form ARCs, each consisting of an assembly of 5-8 investigators, including an ARC director, who focus on a research theme, explored with the aid of different disciplines and technologies to advance Research and Discovery as it applies to Disease States<\/li>\n<li>Enhance the educational mission at graduate and post-graduate programs<\/li>\n<li>Assist in envisioning and developing current and new institutional research cores<\/li>\n<li>Reach out to:\n<ul>\n<li>The Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and other centers and institutes for further development of translational application and Biotechnology<\/li>\n<li>Partnership with Biotech companies<\/li>\n<li>Community Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Provide an opportunity for faculty at BU to become Evans Center\u2019s members (regardless of ARC\u2019s affiliation) and to benefit from ongoing seminars, mini-symposia, immediate knowledge of and access to data-bases and reagents generated by ARCs etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u201cRecipe\u201d for a successful\/sustainable ARC<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>(Outline by Dr. Katya Ravid)<\/h3>\n<p><strong>ARC Leaders:<\/strong> Engaged; Goals greater that \u201cown\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topic:<\/strong> Selection of a high impact research area, with potential of tackling complex scientific and societal challenges<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interdisciplinary:<\/strong> Inclusion of several disciplines and different ways of thinking represented by faculty and trainees from different departments\/schools<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reaching out\/Technology Sharing:<\/strong> Organization of periodical ARC technology-based workshops, seminars, mini-symposia that bring ARC members and the research community together<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plasticity\/Creativity:<\/strong> Ability to branch out to new\/extended topics as the ARC matures into an ARC-program<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support:<\/strong> ARC grant Support to jump-start research themes towards future ARC-Programs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Major Goals of the Evans Center and the Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs): Form ARCs, each consisting of an assembly of 5-8 investigators, including an ARC director, who focus on a research theme, explored with the aid of different disciplines and technologies to advance Research and Discovery as it applies to Disease States Enhance the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14042,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14042"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4069,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3349\/revisions\/4069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/evanscenteribr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}