Problem-to-Product Team Entrepreneurship and Active Mentoring (P2P-TEAM) Graduate Training Program

项目摘要 我们建议的博士前培训项目“从问题到产品的团队创业和积极指导” (P2P-Team)采用团队科学的方法进行研究培训，强调创业技能 和职业发展。该计划将培养下一代学生在科学上茁壮成长 多样化的团队，接受创业的观点，这将使STEM的许多研究生受益 过渡到工业职业的领域，以及那些追求学术或政府职业道路的人。这个 该计划围绕着跨学科团队的形成，这些团队是追求的核心 与治疗厌食学的主要主题相关的高级研究项目，个性化的新方法 结合靶向治疗和诊断的医学。该计划将使学生参与基于团队的 协作项目，并鼓励直接从翻译影响(即， 技术转让和商业化的前景)。基于团队的协作模式旨在 增强责任感，发展同伴网络和支持系统，并激励学生看到他们的 在解决具有潜在翻译收益的更大问题的背景下的个人研究努力，而 对企业家精神的重视旨在促进创新和发展对企业的理解 世界和行业惯例。该项目计划在第一年为两名学员提供培训，然后稳定为五名学员 随后几年的实习生。每项任命的任期为两年。 P2P-Team方案的主要方案特征包括(一)合作研究，(二)创业 培训；及(Iii)专业发展。培训计划有5个首要目标：(1)促进 发展跨学科同行团队，(2)改善科学交流，(3)鼓励 传统研究生课程中通常不会培养的创业视角和商业敏锐性(4) 发展项目管理技能，以及(5)加强专业培训(软技能)。具体活动包括 将研究问题转化为产品的培训；参与专业发展，统计 信息学和创业课程；建立网络和科学交流技能的活动； 创建年度招股说明书；以及参与行业实习。行业导师将提供洞察力 进入与评估技术发展相关的业务方面，由协作 研究项目。理论声学的前沿领域为基础研究和应用研究提供了途径 项目，以及自然翻译到商业化的机会，使其成为理想的焦点 建议的培训计划。由于它的跨学科和翻译研究方法，我们的计划将 成为招聘和留住来自不同背景的极具创新精神的研究生的渠道。

Project Summary Our proposed predoctoral training program “Problem-to-Product Team Entrepreneurship and Active Mentoring” (P2P-TEAM) embraces a team science approach to research training, with an emphasis on entrepreneurial skills and professional development. The program will train the next generation of students to flourish in scientifically diverse teams and embrace an entrepreneurial perspective that will benefit the many graduate students in STEM fields who transition into industrial careers, as well as those pursuing academic or government career paths. The program revolves around the formation of interdisciplinary teams, which serve as the nuclei for pursuing advanced research projects related to the overarching theme of theranostics, a new approach to personalized medicine combining targeted therapy and diagnosis. The program will engage students in team-based collaborative projects and encourage entrepreneurial efforts that build directly from translational impact (i.e., prospects for technology transfer and commercialization). The team-based collaboration model is designed to increase accountability, develop peer networks and support systems, and motivate students to see their individual research efforts in the context of solving bigger problems with potentially translational payoffs, while the emphasis on entrepreneurship is designed to foster innovation and develop an understanding of the business world and industry practices. The program is planned for two trainees in the first year, then a steady-state of five trainees in subsequent years. The duration of each appointment is 2 years. Key programmatic features of the P2P-TEAM program include (i) collaborative research, (ii) entrepreneurial training, and (iii) professional development. The training program has 5 overarching goals: (1) facilitate the development of interdisciplinary peer teams, (2) improve scientific communication, (3) encourage an entrepreneurial perspective and business acumen not typically fostered in traditional graduate programs, (4) develop project management skills, and (5) enhance professional training (soft skills). Specific activities include training in translation of research problems into products; participation in professional development, statistical informatics, and entrepreneurship courses; activities to build networking and scientific communication skills; creation of an annual prospectus; and engagement in industrial internships. Industrial mentors will provide insight into the business aspects related to assessment of technology development arising from the collaborative research projects. The frontier field of theranostics provides avenues for both basic and applied research projects, as well as natural translation to commercialization opportunities, making it an ideal focus of the proposed training program. Because of its interdisciplinary and translational research approach, our program will be an avenue for recruiting and retaining highly innovative graduate students from diverse backgrounds.