Translational Neuroscience Training for Clinicians

项目摘要 新的临床医生翻译神经科学培训（TNT-C）博士后奖学金将解决 精神病学研究人员的迫切需要：加强临床培训 个人进入转化神经科学研究的职业生涯。我们有能力解决 这一重要的差距，既有机会获得一个非常有才华的受训人员， 精神病学住院医师和心理学实习计划，以及无与伦比的基础网络， 在哈佛及其附属机构的翻译和临床研究人员。计划教师是 经验丰富的研究人员和导师在MGH精神病学系或布罗德研究所， 每个项目都有独立的资金，作为多学科研究组合的一部分。两个新学员， 最近完成临床训练的精神科医生或心理学家，将进入 每年都有一个计划，并将获得最多三年的支持。学员将获得交叉- 学科导师，跨越两个四个研究“枢纽”，包括（1）众多的临床 MGH精神病学系内的研究项目，（2）Martinos生物医学中心 成像，（3）MGH精神病和神经发育遗传学单位，和（4）斯坦利中心 布罗德研究所利用来自这些项目的大量数据集，学员将开发 指导的研究项目，桥接临床研究，脑成像，基因组学，动物 模型和细胞/分子生物学。他们将接受专门的教学培训， 这些领域以及转化研究中的一般问题（例如，生物统计学、伦理学、科学 写作，职业规划），为职业发展奖或其他独立资助做准备 在奖学金期结束时提交申请。因此，我们的学员将进入 奖学金期间与精神病学未满足的临床需求的深刻，第一手的知识，他们将 毕业生拥有一系列尖端工具，通过协作式大脑来满足这些需求 research.

PROJECT SUMMARY The new Translational Neuroscience Training for Clinicians (TNT-C) postdoctoral fellowship will address a pressing need in the psychiatry research workforce: strengthening the pipeline for clinically trained individuals to enter into translational neuroscience research careers. We are well positioned to address this important gap, with access to both an exceptionally talented pool of trainees from outstanding psychiatry residency and psychology internship programs, and to an unparalleled network of basic, translational, and clinical investigators across Harvard and its affiliates. Program faculty members are seasoned investigators and mentors based at the MGH Department of Psychiatry or the Broad Institute, and each has independent funding as part of a multidisciplinary research portfolio. Two new trainees, either psychiatrists or psychologists who have recently completed their clinical training, will enter the program each year, and will receive a maximum of three years of support. Trainees will receive cross- disciplinary mentorship that spans two of four research “hubs,” consisting of (1) the numerous clinical research programs within the MGH Department of Psychiatry, (2) the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, (3) the MGH Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit, and (4) the Stanley Center of the Broad Institute. Leveraging vast datasets from across these programs, trainees will develop mentored research projects that bridge the domains of clinical research, brain imaging, genomics, animal models, and cell/molecular biology. They will receive specialized didactic training that covers each of these domains as well as general issues in translational research (e.g., biostatistics, ethics, scientific writing, career planning) in preparation for career development awards or other independent funding applications to be submitted toward the end of the fellowship period. Our trainees will therefore enter the fellowship period with a deep, first-hand knowledge of unmet clinical needs in psychiatry; they will graduate with an arsenal of cutting-edge tools to address these needs through collaborative brain research.