IGERT: Bio-Applications of Membrane Science and Technology

这个IGERT计划的重点是围绕三个相互关联的多学科主题：膜科学的制药，生物传感器和生物医学应用。膜是控制药物释放，医疗设备和仿生学的组成部分。这个IGERT项目的智力优势在于，它解决了北美膜学会确定的将经典膜科学与生物应用相结合的主要挑战。这个IGERT利用了辛辛那提大学（UC）的几个机会：(1)工程学院、医学院和药学院在同一个校园；(2) UC是美国国家科学基金会唯一的膜中心所在地；(3)设立国家科学基金会膜科学REU项目；(4)国家资助的Bio/Start技术孵化器落户校园；(5)有完善的行业实习项目。目标包括发展一个跨学科的研究生培训计划，吸引制药和生物医学行业的参与，并促进收入流，以确保自我维持运作。培训项目包括9门必修课程和3门培训项目中的制药、生物传感器或生物医学课程。一系列必要的实验室轮转旨在促进跨学科意识。在京都技术大学、澳大利亚国立大学和特温特大学可以获得国际技术/文化经验。这个IGERT项目的更广泛的影响是，它将为一个关键的新兴研究领域提供跨学科培训的论坛，为NSF膜中心在生物应用方面激发一个新的研究方向，创建一个整合膜的经典和生物应用的正式结构，催化加州大学新生物医学工程系的发展，促进有效的大学/行业互动。鼓励组建跨学科研究团队，取得将改善医疗保健和生活质量的研究成果，并产生可申请专利的知识产权和行业资金，以维持这一IGERT计划。IGERT是一项nsf范围内的计划，旨在满足教育美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，他们具有跨学科背景，所选学科的深厚知识，以及未来职业需求所需的技术，专业和个人技能。该计划旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训模式，在一个超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，促进研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第六年，奖项将颁发给那些由NSF支持的科学和工程领域的项目的机构。

This IGERT program is focused around three interrelated multi-disciplinary themes: pharmaceutical, biosensor, and biomedical applications of membrane science. Membranes are integral to controlled drug release, medical devices, and biomimetics. The intellectual merit of this IGERT program is that it addresses a major challenge identified by the North American Membrane Society to integrate classical membrane science with bio-applications. This IGERT capitalizes on several opportunities at the University of Cincinnati (UC): (1) the Colleges of Engineering, Medicine and Pharmacy are on the same campus; (2) UC is a site of the only NSF Membrane Center; (3) an NSF REU Program in membrane science is established; (4) the State-funded Bio/Start technology incubator is on campus; and (5) an industry-internship program is well-established.The goals include developing an interdisciplinary graduate training program, attracting pharmaceutical and biomedical industry participation, and facilitating a revenue stream to insure self-sustaining operation. The training program involves nine required courses and three courses focused within the pharmaceutical, biosensor, or biomedical track in the traineeship program. A series of required lab rotations is designed to facilitate cross-disciplinary awareness. An international technical/cultural experience is possible with Kyoto Technical University, the Australian National University and the University of Twente. The broader impacts of this IGERT program are that it will provide a forum for interdisciplinary training in a critical emerging research area, stimulate a new research direction in bio-applications for the NSF Membrane Center, create a formalized structure that integrates classical and bio-applications of membranes, catalyze the growth of the new Biomedical Engineering Department at UC, facilitate effective university/industry interaction, encourage the formation of interdisciplinary research teams, lead to research results that will improve health care and the quality of life, and generate patentable intellectual property and industry funding to sustain this IGERT program.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the interdisciplinary background, deep knowledge in a chosen discipline, and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In this sixth year of the program, awards are being made to institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.