FORSYTH POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING IN ORAL HEALTH RESEARCH

培训项目简介：福赛斯研究所建议为有志于在基础、临床或以患者为导向的口腔健康研究方面进一步培训的健康专业人员和博士提供口腔和颅面研究方面的博士后培训计划。它还建议为职业生涯中期的科学家提供这些领域的再培训。在生物膜、生物矿化和仿生学、分子免疫学和感染性疾病、基因组学和口腔癌以及临床调查方面有具体的培训机会。将鼓励重点领域之间的项目联系，特别是临床研究和其他重点领域之间的项目联系。导师拥有与NIDCR使命一致的杰出研究记录，得到了NIH的良好支持，并在博士后教育方面拥有可观的经验。在学术界和生物技术行业，协作、多学科和跨专业的互动是导师研究的特点。导师的这些多学科/协作研究工作是学员发起类似协作研究互动的基础。导师研究是博士后培训经验的基石。加强这方面的经验将包括一门临床研究设计课程、一门针对口腔健康的免疫学和传染病课程，以及一门科学研究中的伦理实践课程。该计划还将包括网络研究、生物信息学、基因组学和格兰茨基尔的研究使用教程，参加福赛斯/哈佛研讨会系列，口腔生物学座谈会，部门期刊俱乐部，职业机会研讨会/教程，以及博士后研究小组(PRG)。研究小组将负责组织一系列由机构资助的博士后研究日活动，邀请国际专家向研究小组作正式和非正式的发言。领导力意识和培训将通过波士顿高中的博士后实习生指导以及暑期研究项目中的牙科和/或Forsyth牙科卫生专业学生来促进。将使用各种战略来招募受训人员，包括来自代表人数不足的种族/族裔群体的候选人，他们将得到特别鼓励。其目标是提供培训经验，使受训者能够成为首席研究人员，他们能够：1)成功地竞争研究资金；2)有效地交流他们的想法；3)认识到协作研究互动的价值；4)领导和激励他人完成共同的研究目标；5)将他们的发现转化为实践；6)熟练使用生物信息学方法；7)做出符合伦理道德的正确决定；8)在与同行的关系中保持敏感和和谐。

DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING PROGRAM: Forsyth Institute proposes to offer a Postdoctoral Training Program in Oral and Craniofacial Research to health professionals and PhDs who are interested in further training in basic, clinical or patient-oriented oral health research. It also proposes to offer retraining in these areas to mid-career scientists. Specific training opportunities are available in Biofilms, Biomineralization and Biomimetics; Molecular Immunology and lnfectious Disease; Genomics and Oral Cancer; and Clinical Investigations. Linkage of projects between focus areas, especially between clinical investigations and other focus areas, will be encouraged. Mentors have outstanding records of published research consistent with the NIDCR mission, are well supported by NIH, and have appreciable experience in postdoctoral education. Collaborative, multidisciplinary and inter-professional interactions in academia and the biotechnology industry are characteristic of mentors' research. These multidisciplinary/collaborative research efforts of mentors serve as a base upon which the trainee can initiate similar collaborative research interactions. Mentored research is the cornerstone of the postdoctoral training experience. Enhancements to that experience will include a course in clinical research design, oral health targeted courses in immunology and infectious disease, and a course in ethical practices in scientific investigation. The program will also feature tutorials in research use of the Web, Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Grantsmanship, participation in the Forsyth/Harvard Seminar Series, Oral Biology colloquia, and departmental journal clubs, seminar/tutorials in career opportunities, and a postdoctoral research group (PRG). The PRG will be responsible for organizing an institutionally funded series of Postdoctoral Research Days in which international experts will be invited to speak formally and informally to the PRG. Leadership awareness and training will be facilitated by postdoctoral trainee mentoring of Boston high school, and dental and/or Forsyth dental hygiene students in summer research projects. A variety of strategies will be used to recruit trainees, including candidates from under-represented racial/ethnic groups who will be specifically encouraged. The goal is to provide training experiences that will prepare trainees to be principal investigators who can 1) successfully compete for research funds; 2) effectively communicate their ideas; 3) recognize the value of collaborative research interactions; 4) lead and inspire others to accomplish mutual research objectives; 5) translate their findings to practice; 6) become skilled in bioinformatic approaches; 7) make ethically correct decisions; and 8) be sensitive and harmonious in relationships with their peers.