TRAINING IN VISION RESEARCH

描述（由申请人提供）：在史密斯-凯特尔韦尔眼科研究所的长期研究金培训计划中，需要另外四名研究员的支持。虽然该计划已经成功地培训了数十名研究员在视觉处理和临床眼科研究员的分数在过去的三十年里，它远远低于目前的18名研究人员的教师的需求。目前的项目资金只能支持博士后研究员与大约四分之一的研究人员合作。对研究员的需求在史密斯-凯特尔韦尔特别重要，这是一个纯粹致力于研究的独立机构，原因有两个：1）他们在培训期间为已有的实验室带来新的想法和活力，2）他们学会独立进行项目，并从导师那里得到轻微的监督。相反，已确立的调查员处于向研究员提供高质量培训的绝佳地位，因为他们是全职研究员，在传统的大学环境中没有教学责任。因此，申请的目标是将史密斯-凯特尔韦尔的奖学金培训计划的规模扩大一倍。 专业领域包括空间视觉、婴儿视觉（正常和异常）、皮层下处理视网膜处理及其障碍、斜视和弱视、眼球运动控制、眼肌生理学、视觉康复、计算神经科学、感觉障碍、立体视觉、运动、皮层处理和计算机视觉。Smith-Kettlewell研究人员为眼科和视觉障碍的国家研究工作做出了重大贡献，大多数教师都在NIH，NSF或NIDDR科学审查小组任职，所有教师都有资格获得联邦资助他们的研究，许多成员担任编辑委员会和专业组织的官员，他们监督该学科的编程会议。 目前的奖学金计划已经与NEI对INRSA博士后计划的要求完全协调，包括教学组成部分，道德培训和津贴水平。因此，将该方案的国家社会保险局部分与目前的其他支助结合起来，不需要进一步调整。INRSA部分将专门资助具有美国居留证的研究员，而其他机构部分将在平等的基础上资助其余的美国和非美国研究员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Support is requested for four additional fellows in the longstanding fellowship training program at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. Although the program has been successful in training dozens of research fellows in visual processing and scores of clinical ophthalmology fellows over the past three decades, it falls far short of the needs of the current faculty of eighteen investigators. The current program funding can support postdoctoral fellows to work with only about a quarter of the investigators. The need for fellows is particularly critical at Smith-Kettlewell, an independent institute devoted purely to research, for two reasons: 1) they bring fresh ideas and energy to established laboratories during their training and 2) they learn to conduct projects independently with minor oversight from their mentors. Conversely, the established investigators are in an excellent position to offer high quality training to fellows because they are fulltime researchers without teaching responsibilities in the traditional university setting. The goal of the application is therefore to approximately double the scale of the fellowship training program at Smith-Kettlewell. The areas of expertise are spatial vision, infant vision (normal and abnormal), subcortical processing retinal processing and its disorders, strabismus and amblyopia, eye movement control, eye muscle physiology, visual rehabilitation, computational neuroscience, sensory impairment, stereopsis, motion, cortical processing, and computer vision. Smith-Kettlewell investigators make a substantial contribution to the national research effort in ophthalmology and visual disorders, with most of the faculty serving on NIH, NSF or NIDDR scientific review panels, all faculty qualifying to receive federal funding for their research, and many members serving on editorial boards and as officers of professional organizations who have oversight for programming meetings in the discipline. The current fellowship program is already fully coordinated with the NEI requirements for INRSA postdoctoral programs, including a didactic component, ethics training and stipend levels. Integration of the INRSA component of the program with the current other support will therefore require no further adjustments. The INRSA component will fund exclusively fellows with U.S. residency certification while the other institutional components will fund both the remaining U.S. and non-U.S. fellows on an equal basis.