MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAM

申请资金用于支持六名博士预科学生参加杜克大学分子生物物理学项目（MBP）的前两年培训。现有生物化学、生物医学工程、细胞生物学、电子与计算机工程、机械工程与材料科学、神经生物学、药理学等10个系25名教师。MBP旨在培养具有各种本科背景的学生，将定量物理方法应用于生物过程的研究。该项目在招募具有不同背景的学生（包括物理、数学、化学和生物学）到杜克大学生物科学系和项目联盟工作方面发挥着关键作用。该计划的主要目标是为学员提供一个刺激的跨学科环境，在其中学习现代结构生物学和生物物理学的工具，并支持他们的个人研究工作，因为他们将这些工具应用于重要的生物学问题。通过这种培训经验，学生可以为学术界和工业界的各种研究环境做好准备。

Funds are requested to support the training of six predoctoral students during their first two years of participation in the Duke University Program in Molecular Biophysics (MBP). The Program consists of 25 faculty from 10 departments, including Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Neurobiology and Pharmacology. The MBP is designed to prepare students with a variety of undergraduate backgrounds to apply quantitative physical methods to the study of biological processes. The program plays a pivotal role in recruiting students with diverse backgrounds including physics, math, chemistry and biology to work in the consortium of Biological Sciences departments and programs at Duke. The primary goal of the program is to provide trainees with a stimulating interdisciplinary environment in which to learn the tools of modern structural biology and biophysics and to support their individual research efforts as they apply these tools to important biological problems. Through this training experience, students are prepared for a variety of research settings in academia and industry.