BIOLOGY OF AGING AND AGE-RELATED DISEASES

该提案要求支持继续实施培训计划 它目前已进入第五个年头，主要研究衰老的生物学 和/或与年龄相关的疾病。尽管涉及的教员培训人员是 从我们大学内部不同的学术家园中，每一个都被认为是 在研究方面的卓越表现，每个人都致力于研究问题 与生物老年学有关。最初的提案资助了四名博士后 并增加了三个博士前空位。其基本原理是 这是基于生物老年学学科在 这个校园。四个博士前名额中的一个将专门用于 博士/博士生，其他三个将是跨学科的项目 与老年学相关(例如，细胞和分子生物学、营养学 科学。)每个学员将被要求完成一门辅修课程 老年学。这笔培训补助金的优势包括 由华盛顿大学老龄化研究所提供的基础设施，一个充满活力和 学院的教职员工和优秀的学生。我们还开发了一种 招收少数族裔学生和博士后研究员的战略以及 对生物伦理问题的揭露和讨论采取严格的方法。 此外，医学博士/博士生的支持可能被证明是一种 优秀的机制招收我们最聪明的医学生进入 生物老年学或老年医学。

This proposal requests support for continuation of a training program which is currently in its fifth year and focuses on the biology of aging and/or age related diseases. Although the faculty trainers involved are from disparate academic homes within our University, each is recognized for excellence in research, and each is committed to examining questions related to biogerontology. The initial proposal funded four post-doctoral slots and the addition of three pre-doctoral slots. The rationale for this is based on the expanded growth of the biogerontology discipline on this campus. One of the four pre-doctoral slots will be dedicated to the MD/Ph.D. student, and the other three will be interdisciplinary programs relevant to gerontology (e.g., Cell and Molecular Biology, Nutritional Sciences.) Each trainee will be required to complete a minor in gerontology. The strengths of this training grant include the infrastructure provided by the UW Institute on Aging, an energetic and collegial faculty, and outstanding students. We have also developed a strategy to recruit minority students and post-doctoral fellows and a rigorous approach to exposure and discussion of issues in bioethics. Furthermore, the support of an MD/Ph.D. student may prove to be an excellent mechanism to recruit the brightest of our medical students into biogerontology or geriatric medicine.