UCLA Dentist-Scientist and Oral Health-Researcher Training Program

加州大学洛杉矶分校牙医科学家和口腔健康研究员培训计划

• 批准号: 10440538
• 负责人: Hung Ton-That
• 金额: $ 17.09万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-01 至 2026-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10440538
• 关键词: Area; Basic Science; Biology; Biomedical Engineering; California; Cancer Biology; Clinical Research; Comprehensive Cancer Center; Core Facility; Cryoelectron Microscopy; Dental; Dentists; Doctor of Philosophy; Engineering; Environment; Epigenetic Process; Genomics; Grant; Health; Healthcare; Image; Institutes; Link; Mentors; Microbe; Molecular Biology; Oral; Oral health; Postdoctoral Fellow; Regenerative Medicine; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; School Dentistry; Schools; Science; Scientist; Societies; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Virulence; cancer stem cell; career; career development; craniofacial; experience; faculty mentor; improved; innovation; malignant mouth neoplasm; medical schools; nanosystems; next generation; novel; post-doctoral training; pre-doctoral; programs; response; stem cells; translational genetics

Contact PD/PI: Ton-That, Hung PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT In response to PAR-20-056, we propose to reestablish the T90/R90 comprehensive institutional training program at the UCLA School of Dentistry. This application has been built on more than 20 years of our combined research training and career development at UCLA that launched careers of dentist-scientists and oral health-scientists and prepared them for adverse challenges in science, healthcare, and society. The application continues this long-standing tradition and aims to bolster a vigorous and diverse dental, oral and craniofacial research workforce via a rigorous and interdisciplinary training program that offers trainees novel and innovative research training experiences in a highly supportive institutional environment. We have assembled an excellent team of faculty mentors who embody four areas of scientific strengths – (1) Cancer Biology, Oral Cancer & Stem Cells, (2) Craniofacial Biology, Bioengineering & Regenerative Medicine, (3) Microbes – Virulence Mechanisms and Advanced Imaging by CryoEM, and (4) Translational Genetics, Epigenetics, & Genomics. Our interdisciplinary training program links trainees to mentors at the School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, School of Engineering, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Molecular Biology Institute, Stem Cell Institute, and California NanoSystem Institute. The integration of these interdepartmental centers and institutes provides a rich training environment with enormous physical resources and centralized core facilities. We offer five training tracks, (i) Dentist-Scientist Trainee Program (dual degree DDS/PhD), (ii) Dentist-PhD Program (predoctoral research training to dentists), (iii) Dentist-Scientists Postdoctoral Fellow (postdoctoral training to dentists), (iv) Predoctoral PhD Trainee (predoctoral training in oral health), and (v) Oral Health Postdoctoral Fellow (postdoctoral training in oral health). Collectively, our proposed training program will train the next generation of dentist-scientists and oral health scientists to conduct basic, translational, and clinical research to improve dental, oral, and craniofacial health. Project Summary/Abstract Page 6 Contact PD/PI: Ton-That, Hung PROJECT NARATIVE This institutional training grant from the UCLA School of Dentistry aims to train the next generation of dentist- scientists and oral health scientists to conduct basic, translational, and clinical research, via a rigorous and interdisciplinary training program, to bolster a vigorous and diverse dental, oral and craniofacial research workforce.

联系PD/PI: Ton-That， Hung