Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program

项目总结 它清楚地出现在NEI 2012年的战略计划《愿景研究：需求、差距和机遇》中 视觉研究涵盖了生物科学、认知科学和临床领域的所有学科。 视觉科学家意识到跨学科方法在他们的研究中的关键重要性，以及 需要将基础研究的成果快速转化为临床护理。相应地，下一代 视觉科学家将需要在强调尖端技术的环境中发展他们的科学技能 科学，跨学科合作，对视觉系统的理解，以及接触临床 眼科。跨学科视觉科学(IVS)培训计划的重点是创建培训 有利于视觉科学家之间的互动和合作的环境，包括博士前 学生和博士后以跨学科的方法了解视觉系统和 眼病，并提供深思熟虑和有针对性的职业发展活动，以确保 受训者获得必要的职业技能，使他们能够在长期的研究职业生涯中取得成功。 虽然这个T32应用侧重于基础科学家的培训，但我们的学员将会有频繁的互动 与临床眼科医生一起参加我们名为“视觉生物学”的教学视觉课程的讲师，以及 通过课程作业、研讨会和数据俱乐部与内科科学家进行密切互动。我们的T32 培训计划吸引了来自加州大学几个共享研究生项目的研究生 匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学，为学员提供结构和基本课程。这个 IVS T32项目建立在这一坚实的基础上，通过提供联合视觉研究的专门培训 具有专业的发展活动和频繁的团队指导。IVS T32计划还提供 将与重大支持相协调的视觉研究博士后研究员培训结构 结构已经在匹兹堡大学和卡内基梅隆大学到位。最后，IVS T32 该计划为P受体提供导师培训，这是生物医学科学研究中的一个重要新兴主题 为了学员在研究职业生涯中的长期留住和成功。IVS T32计划将努力 以以下总体目标吸引最聪明的学生和博士后：1)提供跨学科、 视觉科学研究及其负责任和道德操守方面的前沿培训；2)提供 深思熟虑的、特定于职业的职业发展机会，以增加他们对愿景的保留 科学，以及更广泛的生物医学劳动力；以及3)加强互动、合作 以及匹兹堡大学实习生和教职员工的视觉研究总体质量 卡内基梅隆大学

PROJECT SUMMARY It clearly emerges from NEI's 2012 strategic plan “Vision Research: Needs, Gaps and Opportunities” that vision research embraces every discipline in the biological sciences, cognitive sciences, and clinical realms. Vision scientists are aware of the critical importance of interdisciplinary approaches in their research, and of the need for rapid translation of findings in basic research to clinical care. Accordingly, the next generation of vision scientists will need to develop their scientific skills within an environment that stresses cutting edge science, interdisciplinary cooperation, an understanding of the visual system, and exposure to clinical ophthalmology. The Interdisciplinary Visual Sciences (IVS) Training Program is focused on creating a training environment that will favor interactions and collaborations among vision scientists, that involves predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the visual system and ocular diseases, and that provides thoughtful and targeted professional development activities to ensure trainees receive necessary career skills that enable them to be successful in long-term research careers. Although this T32 application focuses on training of basic scientists, our trainees will have frequent interactions with clinical ophthalmologists, attend lecturers in our didactic vision course entitled “Biology of Vision”, and have close interactions with physician-scientists through course work, seminars, and data clubs. Our T32 training program draws graduate students from several shared graduate programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University, which provide the structure and basic curriculum for trainees. The IVS T32 Program builds on this strong foundation by providing specialized training in vision research combined with professional development activities and frequent team mentoring. The IVS T32 Program also provides a structure for training of postdoctoral fellows in vision research that will coordinate with the significant support structure already in place at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. Finally, the IVS T32 Program provides mentor training for Preceptors, an emerging theme in biomedical science research as critical for the long-term retention and success of trainees in research careers. The IVS T32 program will strive to attract the brightest students and postdocs with the following overarching goals 1) to provide interdisciplinary, cutting-edge training in vision science research and its responsible and ethical conduct; 2) to provide thoughtful, career-specific professional development opportunities to increase their retention in the vision sciences, as well as more broadly in the biomedical workforce; and 3) to enhance interactions, collaborations and the overall quality of vision research among trainees and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University