India-US Research Training Program in Genetics

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训计划涉及美国匹兹堡大学人类遗传学系教员与印度加尔各答查特吉集团印度统计研究所人口基因组学中心（CpG）成员之间的国际合作。总体目标是帮助印度开展遗传流行病学能力建设工作。该培训计划包括一个以博士前和博士后培训为核心的项目，辅以各种辅助项目（短期培训讲习班和奖学金），以加强印度遗传流行病学和人类遗传学研究伦理行为方面的能力建设和专业知识。为了使培训计划获得高水平的附加值，核心计划最初将围绕一项正在进行的、经伦理批准的印度遗传流行病学研究——CpG的马尔瓦里心血管研究——建立。培训计划的主要内容将是统计和计算基因组学以及分子基因组学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This Training Program involves an international collaboration between faculty members in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh in the US and members of The Chatterjee Group-Indian Statistical Institute Centre for Population Genomics (CpG) in Calcutta, India. The overarching goal is to help in genetic-epidemiological capacity building efforts in India. The training program consists a core program of pre- and post-doctoral training, supplemented by various feeder programs (short-term training Workshops and Fellowships), to enhance capacity building and expertise in genetic epidemiology and ethical conduct of human genetics research in India. To obtain a high level of value addition to the training program, the core program will initially be built around an ongoing, ethically approved, genetic epidemiological study in India, the CpG's Marwari Cardiovascular Study. The major loci of the training program will be on statistical and computational genomics, and molecular genomics. The Specific Aims are: 1. To provide multidisciplinary training in genetic epidemiology to three pre- and two post-doctoral trainees from India. Training will be provided both in India (CpG and its affiliate institutions) and in the U.S. (University of Pittsburgh). 2. To provide five short-term (4 weeks) Fellowships to scientists engaged in research at CpG and its affiliate institutions to obtain training in the U.S. in specific frontline areas of human genetics. 3. To conduct two intensive short-term training Workshops in India on human genetics, with emphasis on statistical methods in genetic epidemiology and ethical conduct of human genetics research. 4. To offer advanced research training support ("re-entry" funding) to our post-doctoral trainees after completion of their post-doctoral training in Pittsburgh. These re-entry grants will enable our trainees to initiate independent human genetics research projects related to ongoing collaborative research at CpG. This program will help generate well-trained personnel for initiating large-scale genetic epidemiological studies of public health significance in India. Through these training programs, collaborations among scientists in India and the U.S.A. will be initiated in human genetics.