Training Veterinary Students for Careers in Biomedical Research

兽医科学家大大加强了基础科学和临床医学之间的转换桥梁。 他们的双重训练赋予了他们独特的专业知识，提高了研究的严谨性和重复性 建立动物模型，提高动物福利。为了在研究事业中取得成功，兽医必须在 比较医学的基础是通过从事博士学位的兽医教育获得的 在生物医学研究方面提供严格培训的项目或博士后奖学金。这是一条 理想的情况是，在还是兽医学生的时候就开始了，学生参与指导的研究项目和 与兽医兼研究人员的榜样建立联系。这项提议寻求扩大现有的夏季培训。 约翰霍普金斯大学(JHU)兽医专业学生在生物医学研究方面的项目机会 医学院作为招募更多兽医从事研究事业的一种手段。建议的T35学者 该计划将点燃对生物医学研究的热情，参与的学生将彻底沉浸在 在我们的顶级学术医学中心指导暑期研究项目。分子与生物工程系 比较病理生物学(DMCP)，是JHU医学院的一个基础科学系，担任 JHU的DVM教师的学术之家，将提供一个充满兽医的支持性家庭基地- 从我们T32资助的培训计划中的博士后研究员到终身教授的科学家榜样 R01资助的独立研究实验室。DMCP还将举办一项职业发展活动计划 让兽医学生了解兽医在研究方面的职业。我们要求提供资金 对于拟议的为期12周的计划，头两年每年4个夏季兽医实习生时段，至 在最后三年扩大到6个老虎机/年。建议的T35奖学金计划将补充和 融入我们现有的暑期项目，这些项目在为兽医学生做好准备方面取得了90%的成功 研究密集型职业。通过在JHU DMCP建立T35奖学金计划，我们希望 为兽医学生提供一个了解自己并为未来做好准备的绝佳机会 兽医-科学家以及生物医学研究的领导者。

Veterinarian scientists greatly strengthen the translational bridge between basic science and clinical medicine. Their dual training endows them with unique expertise that enhances the rigor and reproducibility of research with animal models and improves animal welfare. To succeed in a research career, veterinarians must build on the foundation in comparative medicine gained through their veterinary education by engaging in PhD programs or postdoctoral fellowships that provide rigorous training in biomedical research. This is a path that ideally begins while still a veterinary student, with the student participating in mentored research projects and networking with veterinarian-researcher role models. This proposal seeks to expand existing summer training program opportunities for veterinary students in biomedical research at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine as a means to recruit more veterinarians to research careers. The proposed T35 Scholars Program will ignite a passion for biomedical research in participating students thorough immersion in a mentored summer research project at our top tier academic medical center. The Department of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology (DMCP), a basic sciences department in the JHU School of Medicine that serves as the academic home for DVM faculty at JHU, will provide a supportive home base replete with veterinarian- scientist role models from postdoctoral fellows in our T32-funded training program to tenured professors with R01-funded independent research labs. DMCP will additionally host a program of career development activities educating the veterinary students about the careers available to veterinarians in research. We request funding for the proposed 12 week program for 4 summer veterinary student trainee slots / year for the first two years, to expand to 6 slots / year for the final three years. The proposed T35 Scholars Program will complement and integrate into our existing summer programs that have >90% success in preparing veterinary students for research-intensive careers. Through the establishment of a T35 Scholar Program at JHU DMCP, we hope to offer an outstanding opportunity for veterinary students to learn about and prepare themselves to be future veterinarian-scientists as well as leaders in biomedical research.