GRADUATE TRAINING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

描述：（由申请人提供）本申请寻求在 2001 年 7 月 1 日至 2006 年 6 月 30 日的 5 年期间继续支持 NIH 培训计划，该计划旨在为博士前研究生提供生物技术方面的跨学科教育经验。斯坦福大学项目于 91 年 7 月 1 日开始，目前资助截止至 2001 年 6 月 30 日。它由来自大学 14 个系和 3 个学院的教师团队组成。这些部门包括工程学院内的：化学工程、机械工程和土木与环境工程；人文科学学院内：生物科学和化学；医学院内：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 名教员有一个共同目标，即提供一个多学科框架，让博士前学生接触生物技术的理论、实验和计算组成部分的广泛领域。入选该项目的学员是已按照所属院系或项目的常规招生程序被录取为博士前项目的研究生。特殊的非院系录取项目包括生物物理学项目和神经科学博士项目。程序。除了满足博士学位之外。根据其主要部门的要求，每位学员都必须参加生物技术研讨会系列、生物医学伦理研讨会、期刊俱乐部和年度工业生物技术研讨会。学员还完成一系列研究生水平的课程，包括生物化学、遗传学和生物技术。所有这些活动旨在为学员在小组中的互动提供一个跨学科的基础和论坛，超越重点的个人研究活动。此外，鼓励学员在其论文阅读委员会中包括两名或更多参与的教师。阅读委员会是在受训者任职初期成立的，其主要职能之一是确保来自与生物技术相关的多个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。旧金山湾区当地的生物科技产业为学员提供了智力和体力资源。每年春季举行的一年一度的工业生物技术研讨会向学员介绍和展示区域生物技术工业领域正在进行的科学和工程，并为他们提供接触大学周边人才的机会。在某些情况下，学员会在我们的工业合作伙伴提供的设施中进行一些异地研究，也可能得到工业导师的共同建议。此外，在大学研究工作和工业合作伙伴之间有足够的共同利益以保证这种安排的情况下，通常会向受训人员提供为期一个学术季度或三个月的实习机会。该博士前项目的主要目标是教导学员精通各种物理、化学、生物和计算研究技术，并提供一个跨越这 14 个部门或学科界限的支持性学习社区，这些部门或学科是生物技术企业的主要贡献者。通过这样做，我们的学员可以为工业界和学术界的生物技术职业做好更好的准备。

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.