PREDOCTORAL TRAINING IN EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY AND AGING

运动生理学和衰老方面的博士前培训

• 批准号: 6509341
• 负责人: JAMES M HAGBERG
• 金额: $ 15.42万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-05-01 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6509341
• 关键词: PREDOCTORAL; TRAINING; EXERCISE; PHYSIOLOGY; AGING

The University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) Department of Kinesiology predoctoral exercise physiology and aging training program has a long history of producing well-trained PhD graduates who completed postdoctoral training and become productive academic faculty members. The program provides trainees with the basic knowledge and experiences to prepare them for high quality dissertation research addressing 1) clinical and basic laboratory investigations in exercise physiology, cardiovascular, metabolism, and genetic aspects of aging research to study the pathophysiology of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the elderly and 2) the study of the effects of exercise interventions on metabolic, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal function in older men and women. The program consists of a didactic curriculum providing 1) basic knowledge in gerontology/geriatrics, 2) discipline-specific knowledge in exercise, cardiovascular, and metabolic physiology, 3) supporting courses in biochemistry, endocrinology, genetics, cell biology, and other biological sciences, and 4) research design, biostatistics, and computer applications. The research of the UMCP training program involves longstanding and close collaborations with the UM School of Medicine (UMSM) Division of Gerontology and the NIA-Gerontology Research Center. Trainees receive laboratory and clinical research experience under the guidance of primary UMCP mentors and secondary and associate mentors from UMSM, the NIA-Gerontology Research Center, and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health Department of Human Genetics. Coursework and laboratory experiences are designed to culminate in each trainee's dissertation research project. Our previous PhD trainees have published numerous manuscripts in high-level peer- reviewed clinical, gerontology, and physiology journals and have progressed on to NIH postdoctoral training and academic faculty positions. We propose to support 2-5 trainees in this training program with each funded for 4 years to provide an optimal training experience. Such training has already been shown, and will continue, to produce PhD graduates with an integrated knowledge of exercise physiology and aging applied to metabolism, musculoskeletal and cardiovascular physiology, and genetics who will complete postdoctoral fellowships and eventually become academic faculty members in universities and medical center.

马里兰大学园区学院(UMCP)运动学、博士后运动生理学和老年培训项目有着悠久的历史，培养出训练有素的博士毕业生，他们完成博士后培训，成为富有成效的学术教职员工。该计划为学员提供基本知识和经验，为他们进行高质量的论文研究做准备，内容包括1)运动生理学、心血管、新陈代谢和衰老研究中的临床和基础实验室调查，以研究老年人心血管疾病风险因素的病理生理学；2)运动干预对老年男性和女性代谢、心血管和肌肉骨骼功能的影响的研究。该计划包括一个教学课程，提供1)老年学/老年病学的基本知识，2)运动、心血管和代谢生理学的特定学科知识，3)生物化学、内分泌学、遗传学、细胞生物学和其他生物科学的辅助课程，以及4)研究设计、生物统计学和计算机应用。UMCP培训计划的研究涉及与UM医学院老年学分部和NIA-老年学研究中心的长期密切合作。学员在UMCP初级导师和来自UMSM、NIA老年学研究中心和匹兹堡大学公共卫生研究生院人类遗传学系的二级和副导师的指导下获得实验室和临床研究经验。课程作业和实验室经验的设计是为了使每个学员的论文研究项目达到顶峰。我们之前的博士生已经在高水平的同行评议的临床、老年学和生理学杂志上发表了大量的手稿，并已进入NIH博士后培训和学术教职。我们建议在这个培训项目中支持2-5名学员，每个学员资助4年，以提供最佳的培训体验。这种培训已经表明，并将继续培养出具有运动生理学和衰老综合知识的博士毕业生，这些知识应用于新陈代谢、肌肉骨骼和心血管生理学以及遗传学，他们将完成博士后奖学金，并最终成为大学和医学中心的学术教员。