BIOTECHNOLOGY PREDOCTORAL TRAINING

该提案要求继续资助西北大学（NU）博士前生物技术培训计划。这个跨学科和跨部门的计划为来自三个参与单位的学生提供生物技术培训机会：生物医学（BME）和化学（ChE）工程部门以及跨部门生物科学（IBiS）计划。从众多生命科学实验室中选择研究机会，并辅以核心跨学科课程。三(3)至六个月的工业实习使受训者接触现代生物技术的工业环境。实习安排由东北大学生物技术中心（NUCB）提供，该中心与工业生物技术社区有着密切的联系。NUCB提供了许多额外的培训机会，包括广泛的工业，法律和金融内容的课程，以及夏季生物技术研究所，所有这些都加强了计划的工业组成部分。所有的学员都参加IBiS，这是一个为期两天的校外年度静修，它允许来自许多学科的学生和教师之间进行广泛的互动。将扩大范围和频率的生物技术研究俱乐部是学员和教师向其他学生展示研究成果并与其他学生交流的论坛。其他几个跨学科研究俱乐部为受训者提供了与来自不同学科的学生和教师互动的额外机会。学员组织和主持生物技术研讨会，将主要是工业科学家带到校园，与学员进行研讨会和讨论。学生们还可以利用其他几个研讨会项目。负责任的研究行为的指导主要通过“生物学研究伦理学”这门课程来实施。培训生由项目和参与单位通过海报、小册子和WWW网页招募。为从代表性不足的群体中招收学生作出了大量努力，并取得了相当的成功。目前来自中欧的学员比例较大，因为申请学生人数较多。随着资助职位数目的增加，将从其他参与单位招聘更多的学生。目前的赠款推荐给6个职位，但有2至5个职位获得资助。为了表彰该计划的成就，并为了实施所提议的改进，本提案要求提供12个资助职位。

The proposal requests funding continuation for the Predoctoral Biotechnology Training Program at Northwestern University (NU). This interdisciplinary and interdepartmental Program offers biotechnology training opportunities for a select group of students from the three participating units: the departments of Biomedical (BME) and Chemical (ChE) Engineering, and the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences (IBiS) program. Research opportunities, chosen from among a wide array of laboratories in the life sciences, are complemented by core interdisciplinary courses. Three-(3) to 6-month industrial internships expose trainees to the industrial environment of modern biotechnology. Internship placements are facilitated by the NU Center for Biotechnology (NUCB), which has strong connections with the industrial biotechnology community. NUCB offers many additional training opportunities, including courses with extensive industrial, legal, and financial content, and the Summer Biotechnology Institute, all of which strengthen the Program's industrial component. All trainees participate in the IBiS, two-day, off-campus annual retreat, which allows extensive interactions among students and faculty from many disciplines. The Biotechnology research club, whose scope and frequency will be expanded, is the forum where trainees and faculty present their research results to and interface with other students. Several other interdisciplinary research clubs provide trainees additional opportunities to interact with students and faculty from various disciplines. Trainees organize and host biotechnology seminars which bring predominantly industrial scientists to campus for a seminar and discussion with trainees. Students also take advantage of several other seminar programs. Instruction in the responsible conduct of research is carried our primarily through the course "Ethics in Biological Research"> Instruction in the responsible conduct of research is carried out primary through the course "Ethics in Biological Research". Trainees are recruited by the Program and the participating units, using posters, brochures, and WWW pages. Intensive efforts are made to recruit students from under-represented groups, and have been quite successful. A larger fraction of trainees currently comes from ChE because of the larger student-applicant pool. With the requested increase in the number of funded positions, more students will be recruited from the other participating units. The present grant was recommended for six positions but two to five were funded. In recognition of the Program's achievements and in order to carry out the proposed improvements, this proposal requests twelve funded positions.