BBSI:The Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute at VCU

该奖项为一个为期三年的连续奖项提供支持，该奖项是对弗吉尼亚联邦大学(VCU)的NIBIB-NSF生物工程和生物信息学夏季学院(BBSI)项目的续签，该项目名为BBSI：VCU的生物信息学和生物工程夏季学院，由Gregory A.Buck博士指导。VCU BBSI将继续为大约22名(12-14名进入本科生和10-12名返校本科生)提供生物工程和生物信息学跨学科领域的广泛接触，每年夏天为期10周。在接下来的三年里，该项目将资助66名学生。VCU BBSI的目标是向未来的工程师和科学家展示，生物信息学和生物工程的综合跨学科领域代表着令人兴奋的、有益的和非常可行的长期研究选择。VCU BBSI的智力重点将是引导学生进行一系列高度集成的密集研究模拟，灵感来自于VCU宿主实验室连续两个暑期项目中的实际问题。计算和数学方法等核心技能跨学科和研究领域融合了研训所学员的分析和方法技能。学生们还将通过精心准备的与来访的科学家和工程师的体验与科学界进行互动。学生还将对他们的研究项目承担主要责任，并通过教授同龄人的方式更深入地挖掘他们工作的科学基础。VCU BBSI的更广泛影响体现在它通过最近推出的全面的生物信息学学士和硕士课程以及在新的综合生命科学博士学位中开设的生物信息学轨道，努力整合尖端研究和教育经验。新成立的工程学院是美国为数不多的专注于生物工程的学院之一，拥有一个新成立的专注于化学和生命科学工程的系。该项目由生物科学局(BIO)/生物基础设施部(DBI)/生物数据库和信息学(BDI)、工程部(ENG)/工程教育和中心部(EEC)以及国家卫生研究院/国家生物医学成像和生物工程研究所(NIBIB)共同资助。VCU有培训非传统和代表性不足人群的传统，这一传统反映在BBSI的目标中。

This award provides support for a three year continuing award, a renewal of the NIBIB-NSF Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes (BBSI) Program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), entitled, BBSI: The Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Summer Institute at VCU, under the direction of Dr. Gregory A. Buck. The VCU BBSI will continue to provide broad exposure to the interdisciplinary fields of bioengineering and bioinformatics for approximately 22 (12-14 entering and 10-12 returning) upper level undergraduate students, each summer for ten weeks. A total of 66 students will be supported by this program over the next three years. The goal of the VCU BBSI is to show future engineers and scientists that the integrative interdisciplinary fields of bioinformatics and bioengineering represent exciting, rewarding, and very viable long term options for a career in research. The intellectual focus of the VCU BBSI will be to lead students through a series of highly integrated intensive research simulations, inspired by actual problems from their VCU host laboratories over a two successive summer programs. Core skills such as computational and mathematical methods integrate, across disciplines and research areas, the analytical and methodological skills of the Institute participants. Students will also interact with the scientific community through carefully prepared experiences with visiting scientists and engineers. Students will also take primary responsibility for their research projects and delve more deeply into the scientific basis of their work by teaching their peers. The broader impact of the VCU BBSI is seen in its efforts to integrate cutting-edge research and educational experience through recently launched comprehensive new Bachelor's and Master's Programs in Bioinformatics and a Bioinformatics track in the new Ph.D. in Integrative Life Sciences. The newly created School of Engineering is one of few in the country to focus on Bioengineering, and houses a newly focused department of Chemistry and Life Sciences Engineering. This program is being co-funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)/Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI)/Biological Databases and Informatics (BDI), the Directorate for Engineering (ENG)/Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), and the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). VCU has a tradition of training non-traditional and underrepresented populations, and that tradition is reflected in the goals of the BBSI.