BIOLOGY OF AGING AND AGE-RELATED DISEASES

该提案要求支持继续开展培训方案 目前已进入第五个年头，专注于衰老的生物学 和/或年龄相关疾病。 虽然参与的教师培训师是 来自我们大学不同的学术之家，每个人都被公认为 为卓越的研究，每个人都致力于研究问题， 与生物学有关。 最初的提案资助了四名博士后 并增加了三个博士学位前的职位。 的理由 这是基于扩展的增长， 这个校园。 四个博士学位前的插槽之一将致力于 医学博士/博士学生，其他三个将是跨学科课程 与老年学相关（例如，细胞和分子生物学，营养 科学） 每名学员将被要求完成一个未成年人在 老年学 这项培训补助金的优势包括： 由UW老龄化研究所提供的基础设施，一个充满活力， 学院教师和优秀学生。 我们还开发了一个 招收少数族裔学生和博士后研究员的战略以及 对生物伦理学问题的暴露和讨论采取严格的态度。 此外，MD/Ph.D.学生可能会被证明是一个 优秀的机制可以招募最聪明的医学生进入 老年医学或老年医学。

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.