Visual Sciences Training Program (VSTP)

项目摘要 加州大学欧文分校视觉科学培训计划（VSTP）是专门为培养博士和医学博士/博士 候选人谁将推进研究的原因，诊断，进展和治疗人类视觉 损伤这个多学科，跨部门的培训计划的目标是（一）提供高 与视觉研究相关的基础科学学科的高质量研究培训，以及（ii）提供 跨学科合作和翻译研究的机会，使我们的学员能够熟练地 在互动的研究环境中发挥作用，并从他们的基本发现中得出临床相关性。的强度 我们的计划将是，所有学员将接受指导，这是既学科的具体，即部门 和主题，即在包括VSTP的四个广泛的视觉科学领域内和跨这些领域; 节段和眼表面，（B）代谢和视觉处理，（c）视网膜和视网膜疾病，和（d）透镜。 通过我们的计划的渐进式设计，学员将首先参加教学培训，以建立一个强大的 细胞和分子生物学基础，然后是生物化学和 眼睛和视觉处理的所有主要组成部分的分子生物学。他们将获得先进的 通过高级课程和论文研究，这是有组织的专业领域的理解 根据上述四个研究主题。VSTP利用UC Irvine强大的视觉科学 社区，汇集了一批杰出的临床医生和科学家，他们拥有强大的跟踪记录， 愿景研究和指导。通过充分利用这些优势，VSTP将以独特的姿态实现愿景 科学家能够创造性地运用当代研究方法来理解问题， 视觉和眼科。

PROJECT SUMMARY The UC Irvine Vision Science Training Program (VSTP) is specifically designed to train PhD and MD/PhD candidates who will advance research on the causes, diagnosis, progression and treatment of human visual impairments. The goals of this multidisciplinary, inter-departmental training program are to (i) provide high quality research training in basic sciences disciplines that are relevant to vision research and (ii) provide opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative and translational research so that our trainees can skillfully function in an interactive research environment and draw clinical correlates from their basic findings. A strength of our program will be that all trainees will receive mentoring that is both discipline-specific, i.e. departmental and thematic, i.e. within and across four broad visual sciences areas that encompass the VSTP; (a) Anterior segment and ocular surface, (b) Metabolism & visual processing, (c) Retina and retinal diseases, and (d) Lens. Through our program’s progressive design, trainees will first participate in didactic training to establish a strong foundation in cell and molecular biology, followed by additional didactic training in the biochemistry and molecular biology of all major components of the eye and visual processing. They will then acquire advanced understanding in an area of specialization via advanced courses and thesis research, which are organized according to the four research themes described above. The VSTP leverages UC Irvine’s robust vision science community, bringing together an outstanding group of clinicians and scientists with strong track records of vision research and mentoring. By leveraging these strengths, the VSTP is uniquely poised to produce vision scientists that can creatively apply contemporary research approaches toward understanding problems in vision and ophthalmology.