Interdisciplinary Predoctoral Training in Bioinnovation

项目摘要 T32博士前培训计划将在杜兰大学的跨学科博士开始 生物创新计划。这将培养博士生的能力，发展临床相关的 生物医学技术，可能导致适销对路的产品。职业发展方面是 及时，因为50-75%的博士科学/工程毕业生追求学术界以外的职业， 传统的研究生院学徒制模式并没有为这些学生做好充分的准备， 大学之外的职业生活该项目旨在为学生准备生物医学 在学术界，工业界和政府的界面上的科学和工程职业。 培训计划包括三个方案目标： ·研究目标1（研究）：研究员将完成一个转化生物医学研究项目 重点是成像或传输过程，这些过程对于阐明或 操纵生理/细胞系统，并且对于创建生物医学技术来说已经成熟。 ·目标2（教育课程）：课程将教育受训者了解科学知识 基础，生物医学系统分析，产品概念化，分析和设计， 创业、知识产权和监管机制以及市场对创新的反应。这一广泛 课程将扩阔学员的就业视野。 目标3（社区）：该项目将加强生物创新社区， 强调跨学科的互动，并将改善我们新的生物创新生态系统 奥尔良地区。 主要活动包括： ·杜兰大学科学与工程学院、医学院和公共科学院的实验室轮换 卫生和热带医学，从而为学员提供资源和 研究问题，从中建立和整合转化技术; ·需要在马里兰州银泉的FDA实习。这为学生提供了一个 了解如果翻译项目要实现以下目标，必须协商的监管环境： 成为一种可销售的产品， ·课程强调创新和创业精神，促进与 支持生物医学技术发展。 这个为期5年的项目将资助12名博士前研究员;每个人都有2年的T32支持和1个学术 支持杜兰的一年因此，这个为期5年的项目为T32受训人员提供了33个研究金年度的支助。

Project Summary A T32 pre-doctoral training program will be initiated in Tulane University’s Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Bioinnovation. This will cultivate PhD students’ abilities to develop clinically relevant biomedical technologies that may lead to marketable products. The career development aspect is timely, as 50-75% of PhD science/engineering graduates pursue careers outside of academia, and the conventional graduate school apprenticeship model does not adequately prepare these students for professional life beyond the university. This project is designed to prepare students for biomedical science and engineering careers at the interface of academia, industry, and government. The training plan includes three Program Aims: · PROGRAM AIM 1 (Research): Fellows will complete a translational biomedical research project with an emphasis on either imaging or transport processes that are fundamental to elucidating or manipulating physiological/cellular systems and are ripe for the creation of biomedical technologies. · PROGRAM AIM 2 (Educational Curriculum): The curriculum will educate trainees about scientific fundamentals, biomedical systems analysis, product conceptualization, analysis and design, entrepreneurship, IP and regulatory mechanisms, and market responses to innovation. This broad curriculum will expand trainees career horizon. · PROGRAM AIM 3 (Community): This project will reinforce a Bioinnovation community that emphasizes interdisciplinary interactions, and will improve the Bioinnovation ecosystem in our New Orleans region. Key activities include: · Laboratory rotations in the Tulane’s Schools of Science and Engineering, Medicine, and Public Health and Tropical Medicine and thus provide trainees with a perspective of resources and research questions from which to build and integrate translational technologies; · A required externship at the FDA in Silver Springs, MD. This provides students with an understanding of the regulatory environment that must be negotiated if a translational project is to become a marketable product, and · Curricular emphases on innovation and entrepreneurship that facilitates communication with supporters of biomedical technology development. This 5-year project will fund 12 pre-doctoral fellows; each with 2 years of T32 support and 1 academic year of Tulane support. This 5-year project thus funds 33 fellow-years of support for T32 trainees.