Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

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Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program Abstract The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging technology and application research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engi- neers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the ad- vent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon continuing, significant institutional, state, federal, and commercial investment in faculty and imaging infra- structure. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdiscipli- nary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use imaging facilities in the Case Center for Imaging Research which includes state-of-the-art clinical and preclinical imaging systems, along with labs of mentoring faculty. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have two or more men- tors representing both imaging technology and biological/clinical applications of imaging. Our educational pro- gram includes a portfolio of imaging courses, including ones focusing on imaging physics, image analysis, and reconstruction, as well as nanomedicine. We will promote a culture of interdisciplinary research during a desig- nated Imaging Hour. Our T32 has enabled us to increase recruitment of women and under-represented minori- ties. In general, it has helped make graduate students cost effective as compared to post docs and ensured training of domestic PhD’s in this area of critical need. In less than nine years, our T32 program has already successfully trained several graduates, all with exemplary training records and with a trajectory towards suc- cess. Other trainees are moving through the program focusing on exciting interdisciplinary imaging research and with excellent research productivity.