Biology of Infectious Diseases & Inflammation

传染病生物学

• 批准号: 6659444
• 负责人: Mary Fisher Lipscomb
• 金额: $ 17.44万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-30 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6659444
• 关键词: Biology; Infectious; Diseases; Inflammation

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for competitive renewal of a training grant to fund four predoctoral and two postdoctoral trainees in our Infectious Disease and Inflammation Program (IDIP). IDIP is comprised of a group of 19 funded investigators, all listed as trainees on this grant, our trainees, junior faculty (not listed a trainers) and administrative and technical staff who support research in infectious disease and inflammation. The areas of expertise of the faculty can be broadly grouped into four areas of interest: Pathogenesis of Reemerging Bacterial Infections (3), Biodefense and Emerging Viral Infections (5), Cancer as a Communicable Viral Disease (3) and Basic Inflammatory and Immunologic Mechanisms (8). The training faculty include 17 who have appointments in four University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine (SOM) departments that include Internal Medicine (4), Molecular Genetics and Microbiology (6), Pathology (6), and Cell biology and Physiology (1)] or at Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute (2). The goals of the training program are to: 1) enrich interdisciplinary research in infectious diseases and inflammation by providing venues for research presentations, journal clubs, seminars and course development; 2) provide a rich, cooperative educational research environment with opportunities for both pre- and postdoctoral trainees to learn from a wide variety of scientists, their technicians and other trainees; and 3) to provide professional guidance, including instruction and experiential training in scientific ethics, teaching, and opportunities in diverse scientific careers. The plan is to recruit fellowship trainees from among those predoctoral students who have already matriculated in UNM SOM's interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BSGP) who choose to work in the laboratories of IDIP faculty member. The postdoctoral candidates will be selected from qualified postdoctoral trainees recruited to DIP faculty laboratories. The selected trainees would be mentored (with two to three years of training grant support for predoctoral students and two years for postdoctoral trainees) by their specific IDIP trainer, and their progress will be regularly reviewed by the IDIP steering committee. All would be expected to take IDIP-specific courses, in addition to those courses that the predoctoraI trainees are required to take as specified by the BSGP. The program is strongly supported by both UNM SOM and the LRRI as evidenced by the SOM or LRRI jointly funding fully all first year students and by joint BSGP and departmental support for administration of the program, including all recruiting costs. Our program includes specific and unusual strengths in that trainees are exposed to didactic training and laboratory experiences that are very broad and that expose them to excellent interdisciplinary core facilities, strong biotechnotogy (corporate) collaborations, international programs (such as an ICIDR/Fogarty program), work with highly pathogenic potential bioweapons, superb structural biology and imaging capabilities, and well-developed bioengineering research partnerships.

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是一项培训补助金竞争性更新请求，旨在为我们的传染病和炎症计划 (IDIP) 的四名博士前学员和两名博士后学员提供资助。 IDIP 由 19 名受资助的研究人员组成，他们均被列为本次资助的受训人员、我们的受训人员、初级教职人员（未列出培训师）以及支持传染病和炎症研究的行政和技术人员。教师的专业领域可大致分为四个感兴趣的领域：重新出现的细菌感染的发病机制 (3)、生物防御和新出现的病毒感染 (5)、癌症作为一种传染性病毒性疾病 (3) 以及基本炎症和免疫机制 (8)。培训教师包括 17 名，他们在新墨西哥大学 (UNM) 医学院 (SOM) 的四个系任职，包括内科 (4)、分子遗传学和微生物学 (6)、病理学 (6) 以及细胞生物学和生理学 (1)] 或洛夫莱斯呼吸研究所 (2)。培训计划的目标是：1）通过提供研究报告、期刊俱乐部、研讨会和课程开发的场所，丰富传染病和炎症的跨学科研究； 2) 提供丰富、合作的教育研究环境，为博士前和博士后学员提供向各种科学家、技术人员和其他学员学习的机会； 3) 提供专业指导，包括科学伦理、教学和各种科学职业机会方面的指导和体验式培训。该计划是从那些已经被 UNM SOM 跨学科生物医学科学研究生项目 (BSGP) 录取的博士生中招募奖学金实习生，他们选择在 IDIP 教员的实验室工作。博士后候选人将从DIP教师实验室招募的合格博士后学员中选拔。选定的受训者将接受其特定 IDIP 培训师的指导（博士前学生获得两到三年的培训资助支持，博士后受训者获得两年的培训资助支持），IDIP 指导委员会将定期审查他们的进展情况。除了 BSGP 规定的博士前培训生必须参加的课程外，所有人都应该参加 IDIP 特定课程。该计划得到了新墨西哥大学 SOM 和 LRRI 的大力支持，SOM 或 LRRI 联合全额资助所有一年级学生，以及 BSGP 和部门联合支持该计划的管理（包括所有招聘费用）就证明了这一点。我们的项目包括特定和不寻常的优势，因为学员可以接受非常广泛的教学培训和实验室经验，并使他们接触到优秀的跨学科核心设施、强大的生物技术（企业）合作、国际项目（例如 ICIDR/Fogarty 项目）、使用高致病性潜在生物武器、精湛的结构生物学和成像能力以及成熟的生物工程研究 伙伴关系。