GRADUATE TRAINING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

生物技术研究生培训

• 批准号: 6313742
• 负责人: CHANNING R ROBERTSON
• 金额: $ 21.9万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6313742
• 关键词: GRADUATE; TRAINING; BIOTECHNOLOGY

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) This application seeks continued support for the 5-year period 7/01/01-6/30/06 for a NIH training program directed at providing predoctoral graduate students with a cross-disciplinary educational experience in biotechnology. The Stanford program began on 7/01/91 and currently is funded through 6/30/01. It draws on a faculty group from 14 departments and 3 Schools at the University. These departments include within the School of Engineering: Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering; within the School of Humanities and Sciences: Biological Sciences and Chemistry; and within the School of Medicine: Biochemistry, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Molecular Pharmacology, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Neurobiology, Neurology, Radiology and Structural Biology. The 36 faculty involved in this training program have the common goal of providing a multidisciplinary framework, within which predoctoral students are exposed to a broad cross-section of the theoretical, experimental, and computational components of biotechnology. Trainees selected for this program are graduate students who already have been admitted to a predoctoral program following the usual admissions procedures of the participating departments or programs to which they are affiliated. Special non-departmental admitting programs include the Biophysics Program and the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program. In addition to meeting the Ph.D. requirements for their primary department, each trainee is required to participate in a biotechnology seminar series, in seminars on biomedical ethics, in a journal club, and in an annual industrial biotechnology symposium. Trainees also complete a graduate-level sequence of courses that encompasses biochemistry, genetics, and biotechnology. All these activities are designed to provide an interdisciplinary foundation and forum for trainee interaction in groups that extend beyond focused individual research activities. Furthermore, trainees are encouraged to include on their dissertation reading committees two or more of the participating faculty. Reading committees are formed early in the tenure of the trainee, and one of their primary functions is to insure the dissemination of information and expertise to the trainee by preceptors from multiple basic science and engineering departments related to biotechnology. Local biotechnology industries in the San Francisco Bay Area provide intellectual and physical resources to the trainees. An annual Industrial Biotechnology Symposium held each spring introduces and exposes the trainees to the science and engineering being conducted in the regional biotechnology industrial sector and offers them opportunities to access the talent that surrounds the University. In certain instances, trainees perform some of their research offsite at facilities made available by our Industrial Partners and also may be co-advised by industrial mentors. In addition, internships, typically one academic quarter or three months in duration are offered to trainees in those cases where there is sufficient mutual interest between the university research efforts and the industrial partners to warrant such an arrangement. The primary goals of this predoctoral program are to teach the trainees to become proficient with a wide variety of physical, chemical, biological, and computational research techniques and to provide a supportive learning community that cuts across the boundaries of these 14 departments or disciplines which are major contributors to the biotechnology enterprise. By so doing, our trainees re better prepared for careers in biotechnology in both industry and academia.

产品说明：（由申请人提供）本申请寻求持续支持5年期间7/01/01-6/30/06为NIH培训计划，旨在提供博士前研究生在生物技术的跨学科教育经验。该斯坦福大学计划开始于7/01/91，目前是通过6/30/01资助。它借鉴了来自大学14个部门和3所学校的教师小组。这些部门包括在工程学院：化学工程，机械工程和土木与环境工程;在人文和科学学院：生物科学和化学;在医学院：生物化学，发育生物学，遗传学，分子药理学，分子和细胞生理学，神经生物学，神经病学，放射学和结构生物学。参与该培训计划的36名教师的共同目标是提供一个多学科框架，在此框架内，博士前学生接触到生物技术的理论，实验和计算组件的广泛横截面。选择这个程序的学员是研究生谁已经被录取到一个博士预科课程以下的参与部门或程序，他们隶属于通常的招生程序。特殊的非部门录取计划包括生物物理学计划和神经科学博士。程序.除了满足博士学位。根据其主要部门的要求，每个受训人员都必须参加生物技术系列研讨会、生物医学伦理研讨会、期刊俱乐部和年度工业生物技术专题讨论会。学员还完成了研究生水平的课程序列，包括生物化学，遗传学和生物技术。所有这些活动的目的是提供一个跨学科的基础和论坛，为学员在小组中的互动，超越重点个人的研究活动。此外，鼓励学员在他们的论文阅读委员会包括两个或两个以上的参与教师。阅读委员会是在受训者任职的早期成立的，其主要职能之一是确保来自多个与生物技术有关的基础科学和工程部门的导师向受训者传播信息和专业知识。旧金山弗朗西斯科湾地区的当地生物技术工业为受训人员提供智力和物质资源。每年春季举行的年度工业生物技术研讨会向学员介绍并展示区域生物技术工业部门正在进行的科学和工程，并为他们提供机会接触大学周围的人才。在某些情况下，学员在我们的工业合作伙伴提供的设施中进行一些研究，也可能由工业导师共同提供建议。此外，如果大学研究工作和工业伙伴之间有足够的共同利益，有必要作出这种安排，则向受训人员提供实习机会，通常为期一个学期或三个月。这个博士预科课程的主要目标是教学员成为精通各种物理，化学，生物和计算研究技术，并提供一个支持性的学习社区，跨越这14个部门或学科的边界，是生物技术企业的主要贡献者。通过这样做，我们的学员重新更好地准备在工业界和学术界的生物技术的职业生涯。