GRADUATE TRAINING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

本申请寻求5年期7/96-6/01的持续支持 美国国立卫生研究院博士前培训计划旨在提供一个交叉- 生物技术方面的学科教育经验。斯坦福大学 该计划自1991年7月以来一直存在，资金一直持续到1996年6月。它 由来自该大学10个单位和3个学院的教职员工组成。 这些单位包括工程学院：化学和土木工程 工程学；人文与科学学院：化学与科学 生物科学；医学院内部：细胞生物学， 遗传学、神经生物学、分子药理学、发育生物学、 和生物化学。参与培训计划的26名教职员工 共同目标是提供一个多学科框架来揭露 博士后博士生要有广泛的横截面理论， 生物技术的实验和计算部分。 被选中参加这个项目的实习生都是这些研究生中的一员 已经被每个单位在他们通常的录取之后录取 程序。除了满足博士学位的要求外， 初级单位，每个学员都被要求参加一项生物技术 系列研讨会，生物医学伦理研讨会，期刊俱乐部，#年 一年一度的工业生物技术研讨会，并完成四个 四分之一研究生水平的课程要求包括生物化学， 遗传学和生物技术。这些活动旨在提供 为受训者提供共同的基础，然后提供一个互动的论坛 在他们专注的研究活动之外的小组中。这个 实习生必须有两名或两名以上的参与教员。 作为他们的论文阅读委员会的成员。这些委员会是 在实习生任期早期形成，并负责确保 教导员向受训者传播信息和专门知识 从不同的基础科学和工程领域涉及到 生物技术。 旧金山湾区的当地生物技术产业提供了 为学员提供智力和体力资源，从而为学员提供 学生有机会接触到围绕 大学。在某些情况下，实习生可能会得到工业界的共同建议。 导师，并将在设施的异地执行他们的一些研究 由行业参与者提供。另外，实习， 通常为期三个月，向学员提供 大学之间有足够的共同利益的情况 研究努力和工业同行保证这样一种 安排好了。一年一度的工业生物技术研讨会分别举行 向受训者介绍和接触科学和技术 在当地生物科技工业部门进行的工程。 该计划的主要目标是让受训者变得熟练 在各种物理、化学、生物和计算研究中 技术，并提供一个跨越 作为主要贡献者的几个学科的边界 生物技术企业。在这样做的过程中，我们的学员做好了准备 在工业和大学层面从事生物技术的职业。

This application seeks continuing support for the 5 year period 7/96-6/01 of a NIH predoctoral training program directed at providing a cross- disciplinary educational experience in biotechnology. The Stanford program has been in existence since 7/91 and is funded through 6/96. It draws on a faculty group from 10 units and 3 Schools at the University. These units include within the School of Engineering: Chemical and Civil Engineering; within the School of Humanities and Sciences: Chemistry and Biological Sciences; and within the School of Medicine: Cell Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology, Molecular Pharmacology, Developmental Biology, and Biochemistry. The 26 faculty involved in the training program have the common goal of providing a multidisciplinary framework for exposing predoctoral students to a broad cross-section of the theoretical, experimental and computational components of biotechnology. Trainees selected for this program are among those graduate students already admitted by each of the units following their usual admissions procedures. In addition to meeting the Ph.D. requirements for their primary unit, each trainee is required to participate in a biotechnology seminar series, in seminars on biomedical ethics, in a journal club, in an annual industrial biotechnology symposium and to complete a four quarter graduate-level course requirement encompassing biochemistry, genetics, and biotechnology. These activities are designed to provide a common basis for the trainees and to give then a forum for interacting in groups that extend beyond their focused research activities. The trainees are required to have two or more of the participating faculty as members of their dissertation reading committees. These committees are formed early in the tenure of the trainee and operate to insure the dissemination of information and expertise to the trainee by preceptors from different basic science and engineering areas relate to biotechnology. Local biotechnology industries in the San Francisco Bay Area provide intellectual and physical resources to the trainees and thereby offer an opportunity for the students to access the talent that surrounds the University. In some instances, trainees may be co-advised by industrial mentors and will perform some of their research offsite at facilities made available by the industrial participants. In addition, internships, typically three months in duration, are offered to trainees in those cases where there is sufficient mutual interest between the university research efforts and the industrial counterpart to warrant such an arrangement. An annual Industrial Biotechnology Symposium is held each Spring to introduce and expose the trainees to the science and engineering being conducted in the local biotechnology industrial sector. The primary goal of the program is to have the trainees become proficient in a variety of physical, chemical, biological and computational research techniques and to provide a learning environment that cuts across the boundaries of several disciplines that are major contributors to the biotechnology enterprise. In so doing, our trainees become prepared for careers in biotechnology at both the industrial and university levels.