EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Medical Imaging

该应用程序将两所世界知名的研究和教育重点大学结合在一起，以独特的合作方式创建跨学科培训方法，以应对医疗保健领域的挑战。KCL/ICL联盟在基础物理科学，工程和临床翻译方面具有互补优势，密切的战略和地理联系，以及在一流教学医院内嵌入的CDT，是培养下一代成像科学家和研究领导者的绝佳条件。CDT将提供一个独特的跨学科培训项目，通过整合物理科学、工程、生物和临床学科，培养创造创新技术解决方案的技能。该中心将被整合到由EPSRC/威康信托医疗工程中心、MRC中心、CRUK/EPSRC癌症成像中心和BHF卓越中心资助的大型医学成像研究组合中。为了促进研究的临床转化，CDT将与两个学术卫生科学中心和国家卫生研究院生物医学研究中心联系起来。CDT将培养大量的教师和研究人员，通过将来自不同学科的学生聚集在一起从事医学成像的研究课题，建立一个跨学科的培训计划。CDT将采用1 + 3年的MRes+博士结构，并将学生作为一个单一的队列进行管理。我们制定了博士课程的不同阶段，即招聘，MRes，博士和校友，以实现最高质量的培训，研究和个人学生的职业发展。我们非常重视临床翻译，因此CDT将在博士项目的同时继续进行临床应用方面的正式培训计划。此外，该中心的教学地点位于世界一流的教学医院内一个专门的、新装修的CDT教学中心，与NHS建立了紧密的联系，并为临床翻译提供了进一步增强的机会。这个CDT的首要目标是为每个学生提供最高质量的监督。为达此目的，我们将把资深导师的经验与更多初级学者的精力和发展结合起来。在CDT开始时，我们将从60名在医学成像多学科主题基础上具有世界领先研究专长的导师中确定博士项目。所有这些科学家都有博士指导和研究委员会资助的研究记录。我们还确定了三个主要疾病领域（心脏病学、肿瘤学、神经科）的临床冠军，他们将组织临床应用培训。该培训旨在培养科学家和临床医生之间的互动。它将为学生提供宝贵的接触，与他们讨论他们的博士研究的临床意义。CDT将为具有跨学科研究、临床翻译和创业技能的新一代科学家提供培训。研究生培训和学生个人研究项目的重点将是在一系列疾病患者的护理周期中创新医学成像技术。该计划的另一个中心主题将是培训如何将创新转化为商业产品。为此，我们将利用我们强大的工业联系，并从不同的工业合作伙伴那里获得了超过25个共同资助的工业CDT学生的财政承诺。合作伙伴，包括新的英国中小企业和初创公司，还将提供实习机会，使职业道路进入工业界。

This application brings together two world-renowned research- and educational-focused Universities in a unique collaboration to create an interdisciplinary training approach to meet challenges in healthcare. With complementary strengths in basic physical sciences, engineering and clinical translation, close strategic and geographical links and a CDT embedded within a top-rated teaching hospital, the KCL/ICL alliance is superbly placed to train the next generation of imaging scientists and research leaders.The CDT will provide a unique interdisciplinary training program to develop the skills for creating innovative technical solutions through integration of the physical sciences, engineering and biological and clinical disciplines. The Centre will be integrated into a large research portfolio in medical imaging funded through EPSRC/Wellcome Trust Medical Engineering Centres, MRC centres, the CRUK/EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centres, and the BHF Centres of Excellence. In order to foster clinical translation of research, the CDT will be linked into two Academic Health Science Centres and NIHR-Biomedical Research Centres.The CDT will create a critical mass of teachers and researchers to establish an interdisciplinary training program by bringing together students from different disciplines to work on research topics in medical imaging. The CDT will feature a 1 + 3 years MRes+PhD structure and will manage the students as a single cohort. We have developed the different phases of the PhD programme, i.e. Recruitment, MRes, PhD and Alumni, to achieve the highest quality in training, research and career development for the individual student. We place a strong emphasis on clinical translation, therefore the CDT will continue with a formal training programme in clinical applications in parallel to the PhD projects. In addition, the teaching location of the Centre in a dedicated, newly-refurbished CDT teaching hub within a world-class teaching hospital engenders strong links with the NHS and provides further enhanced opportunities for clinical translation. The first and foremost goal of this CDT will be to provide the highest quality supervision for individual students. To achieve this, we will combine the experience of senior supervisors with the energy and development of more junior academics. At the start of the CDT, we will be defining PhD projects from 60 supervisors with world-leading research expertise in the underpinning of the multidisciplinary themes in medical imaging. All of those scientists have a track record in PhD supervision and delivering research funded by research councils.We have also identified clinical champions in three major disease areas (Cardiology, Oncology, Neuro) who will organize training in clinical application. This training is designed to forge interactions between scientists and clinicians. It will provide students with valuable contacts with whom they can discuss clinical implications of their PhD research.The CDT will provide training of a new generation of scientists with skills in interdisciplinary research, clinical translation and entrepreneurship. The focus of both graduate training and the individual student research projects will be to innovate medical imaging technologies in the care cycle of patients across a range of diseases. Another central theme within the program will be training to translate innovations into commercial products. For this, we will leverage our strong industrial links and have obtained financial commitment for more than 25 co-funded industrial CDT studentships from various industrial partners. The partners, including new UK-based SMEs and start-up companies, will also provide internships to enable career paths into industry.