The Wilmer Institute Mentored Clinician Scientist Scholar Program

项目摘要/摘要 在重新提交续签申请时，Wilmer K12计划寻求继续其成功的 在临床和实验室视野高度相关的领域招聘和发展新的调查员 研究。我们过去的记录表明，在对进入全职工作的年轻科学家进行指导培训方面取得了成功 学术研究事业，并有效地竞争个人和合作的拨款支持。由于我们的 临床医生-科学家培训的声誉以及视觉科学主要研究领域的多样性 对于学者来说，我们每年都会吸引多名非常有吸引力的候选人参加Wilmer K12 程序。我们的结构化计划仍然保留了相当大的灵活性，以利用多名导师 分组进行授课和实践活动相结合的培训。一个部门的存在 对每个获奖者(K12、K08和K23)进行持续监督的执行委员会确保每个学者 将对他们的计划进行最新审查，并纠正运行不理想的领域。特定的 严格执行每个K学者项目的时间表和指导方针。我们的进度报告 显示Wilmer K12毕业生向独立研究职业和R级资助的进展是 远高于公布的国家标准。50多名科学家的教职员工参与表明了这一点，其中许多 他们本身就是K奖获得者，他们对这个项目的机构专业知识和承诺是很高的 威尔默研究所的优先事项。幼稚园12个参与学院的合共275份研究补助金包括 今年的直接成本总额超过3500万美元。这确保了有足够的资金来支持 K奖励本身不包括的导师培训费用。威尔默制作了更多完整的 学者和系主任的时间比美国任何其他眼科研究所或系都要长 此外，威尔默几乎每个K12/K08/K23奖学金获得者都受益于导师团队，不仅包括 眼科教员，但来自约翰霍普金斯大学医学院其他系的科学家 霍普金斯大学、应用物理实验室和彭博公共卫生学院。这些 合作使学者培训和研究所的研究环境相互促进，并已 包括神经科学、医学、生物医学工程、流行病学、 国际卫生与儿科。执行委员会保持警惕，以确保导师和 学员都在履行自己的职责，定期进行书面评估。行政人员(咨询) 委员会由经验丰富和多样化的视觉科学家组成，其中一些人最近参加了K培训和 其他多年来指导过多名K学者的人。项目主任奎格利博士已经 在一年多的时间里指导了50多名临床医生和科学家，包括科室主任和科室主任 十几家国内和国际机构。威尔默的临床和实验室研究设施包括 无与伦比的，包括最近开业的20万平方英尺的史密斯大厦。

Project Summary/Abstract In its renewal application resubmission, the Wilmer K12 Program seeks to continue its successful recruitment and development of new investigators in highly relevant areas of clinical and laboratory vision research. Our past track record indicates success in mentored training of young scientists who enter full-time academic research careers and compete effectively for individual and collaborative grant support. Due to our reputation for clinician—scientist training and the diversity of major research areas in vision science that are available to scholars, we have every year attracted multiple highly attractive candidates for the Wilmer K12 program. Our structured program still leaves considerable flexibility to take advantage of multiple—mentor groups for training in a combination of didactic and practical activities. The existence of a Departmental executive committee for ongoing oversight of every K awardee (K12, K08 and K23) assures that each scholar will be given updated review of their program and correction of areas that are not functioning ideally. Specific timelines and guidelines for following of each K scholar program are strictly enforced. Our progress report shows that the progression to independent research careers and R level funding for Wilmer K12 graduates is far above the national standard as published. As shown by the faculty involvement of over 50 scientists, many of whom were K awardees themselves, the institutional expertise and commitment to this program is a high priority of the Wilmer Institute. The combined 275 research grants of the K12 participating faculty comprises a total direct cost this year of over $35 million. This ensures that adequate funding is available to support the costs of mentored training that are not covered by the K awards themselves. Wilmer has produced more full time academics and Department Chairpersons than any other eye institute or department in the U.S. Furthermore, nearly every K12/K08/K23 scholar at Wilmer benefits from a mentor team than includes not only Ophthalmology faculty, but scientists from other departments at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, the Applied Physics Laboratory, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. These collaborations cross-fertilize both scholar training and the research environment of the Institute, and have included members of Departments such as Neuroscience, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Epidemiology, International Health, and Pediatrics. The Executive Committee is vigilant to assure that the mentors and mentees are both fulfilling their roles, with written evaluations at regular intervals. The Executive (Advisory) committee consists of experienced and diverse vision scientists, some of whom recently were in K training and others who have over many years mentored multiple K scholars. The Program Director, Dr. Quigley, has mentored over 50 clinician—scientists, including Department Chairs and Division Directors in more than a dozen institutions nationally and internationally. The facilities of Wilmer’s clinical and lab research are unsurpassed, including the 200,000 square foot Smith Building opened recently.