India-US Research Training Program in Genetics

描述(由申请者提供)：该培训项目涉及美国匹兹堡大学人类遗传学系的教职员工和印度加尔各答的Chatterjee Group-印度人口基因组中心(CpG)成员之间的国际合作。总体目标是帮助印度的遗传流行病学能力建设工作。该培训计划包括一个核心的博士前和博士后培训计划，并辅之以各种辅助计划(短期培训研讨会和奖学金)，以加强印度在遗传流行病学和人类遗传学研究的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印度正在进行的、经伦理批准的遗传流行病学研究--CPG的Marwari心血管研究--建立。培训计划的主要重点将是统计和计算基因组学以及分子基因组学。 具体目标是： 1.为来自印度的三名博士后和两名博士后学员提供遗传流行病学方面的多学科培训。培训将在印度(CpG及其附属机构)和美国(匹兹堡大学)提供。 2.为在CpG及其附属机构从事研究的科学家提供五个短期(4周)的奖学金，以便在美国获得特定人类遗传学前沿领域的培训。 3.在印度举办两期关于人类遗传学的短期强化培训讲习班，重点是遗传流行病学的统计方法和人类遗传学研究的伦理行为。 4.为我们的博士后学员在匹兹堡完成博士后培训后提供高级研究培训支持(“重返”资助)。这些返校补助金将使我们的受训人员能够启动与CpG正在进行的合作研究相关的独立人类遗传学研究项目。 该计划将帮助培养训练有素的人员，以便在印度启动具有公共卫生意义的大规模遗传流行病学研究。通过这些培训计划，印度和美国科学家之间的合作将在人类遗传学方面启动。

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.