Duke Program of Training in Pulmonary ReSearch to Promote, Engage and Retain Academic Researchers (PROSPER)

这是一个跨学科的肺培训计划T32，培训的杜克计划的新应用程序 在肺研究，以促进，参与和留住学术研究人员（PROSPER），提交下 一个多PI计划该计划提供了多样化的，特殊的博士后MD和博士的机会 学员获得独立调查的最先进的知识和研究技能， 肺疾病的发病机制、治疗和结局。繁荣是一个新的开始，一个程序， 在杜克大学的肺部、过敏和重症监护医学部工作了36年， 基于基础和临床生物医学研究方法。PROSPER包括精心挑选， 来自医学系和生物统计学，生物工程， 细胞生物学、病理学、人口健康科学、精神病学、外科学和环境学院。 我们还包括早期职业科学家作为新兴导师，为我们的学员提供最相关的， 在临床和科学上都很可靠的指导在过去的15年里，近75%的学员继续在 他们中的许多人成为了独立资助的肺部科学家。之前 尽管取得了成功，但我们确定了需要改进的关键领域，因此，我们提出 新计划扩大招聘工作，以吸引有才华的博士生，除了典型的MD 学员来自杜克大学和其他一流大学的相关研究生院。此外，在繁荣，我们 致力于增加我们学员的多样性，因此开始在招聘和保留方面做出共同努力 少数族裔背景的受训者人数不足。我们建立正式的内部和外部咨询 委员会，由经验丰富的杜克导师和领先的肺科学家组成，并创建一个正式的审查 和反馈结构，其中包括内部顾问，外部顾问，学员和 国家卫生研究院的官员。我们建立了严格的问责制结构的发展研究，学术 职业和奖学金技能。这些要求包括：建立指导委员会， 个人发展计划，进行严格的研究项目，撰写并提交多份手稿， 出席专业聚会，并在结束前起草个人职业发展补助金， 训练每个学员还将参加一个结构化的教学培训计划，包括正式的课程， 部门研讨会、特邀杰出演讲者的演讲以及职业发展讲习班 扩大和深化学员的科学背景。我们的目标是准备下一代肺 科学家通过为每个受训者提供个性化的支持系统，其中包括周到的 导师制、研究经验、教学式学习、职业发展技能、奖学金和网络， 他们可以成功地建立研究事业，并在竞争激烈的环境中获得独立的资金。 环境

This is a new application for an Interdisciplinary Pulmonary Training Program T32, the Duke Program of Training in Pulmonary ReSearch to Promote, Engage and Retain Academic Researchers (PROSPER), submitted under a multiple PI plan. This program provides the opportunity for diverse, exceptional postdoctoral MD and PhD trainees to acquire state-of-the-art knowledge and research skills in independent investigation into the pathogenesis, treatments and outcomes of lung diseases. PROSPER is a fresh start for a program that has been centered in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine at Duke University for 36 years and founded on basic and clinical biomedical research approaches. PROSPER includes carefully selected, exceptional senior mentors from the Department of Medicine and Departments of Biostatistics, Bioengineering, Cell Biology, Pathology, Population Health Sciences, Psychiatry, Surgery, and the School of the Environment. We also include early career scientists to serve as emerging mentors to provide our trainees with most relevant, clinically- and scientifically-sound mentorship. Over the last 15 years, nearly 75% of our trainees continued in research-oriented careers, and many of them became independently funded pulmonary scientists. Prior successes notwithstanding, we identified critical areas for improvement, as a result of which we propose this new program with expanded recruitment efforts to attract talented PhD trainees, in addition to typical MD trainees, from relevant graduate schools at Duke and other leading universities. In addition, in PROSPER, we commit to increasing diversity of our trainees, thus began making concerted efforts in recruitment and retention of trainees from underrepresented minority backgrounds. We establish formal Internal and External Advisory Boards, comprised of experienced Duke mentors and leading pulmonary scientists, and create a formal review and feedback structure, which includes perspectives of internal advisors, external advisors, trainees, and the NIH program officers. We establish rigorous accountability structures for the development of research, academic career, and scholarship skills. These requirements include: to establish a mentoring committee, to create an individual development plan, to conduct rigorous research project(s), to write and submit several manuscripts, to present at professional gatherings, and to draft an individual career development grant by the conclusion of training. Each trainee will also participate in a structured didactic training program, including formal coursework, divisional seminars, lectures from distinguished invited speakers, and career development workshops designed to expand and deepen trainees’ scientific background. Our goal is to prepare the next generation of pulmonary scientists by providing each trainee with an individualized system of supports, which include thoughtful mentorship, research experience, didactic learning, career development skills, scholarship, and networking, so they can successfully establish research careers and obtain independent funding in a highly competitive environment.