GRADUATE TRAINING IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

生物技术研究生培训

• 批准号: 6943143
• 负责人: CHANNING R ROBERTSON
• 金额: $ 41.29万
• 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 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6943143
• 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.

描述：（由申请人提供）本申请寻求持续支持为期5年的7/01/01-6/30/06 NIH培训计划，旨在为博士前研究生提供生物技术跨学科教育经验。斯坦福大学的项目于1991年7月1日开始，目前的资助截止到2001年6月30日。它利用了来自牛津大学14个系和3个学院的教师团队。这些系包括工程学院的化学工程、机械工程和土木与环境工程；人文与科学学院：生物科学与化学；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、神经学、放射学和结构生物学。参与该培训计划的36名教员的共同目标是提供一个多学科框架，在这个框架内，博士生可以接触到生物技术的理论、实验和计算组成部分的广泛截面。本项目的受训者是已经被博士预科课程录取的研究生，按照他们所属的参与部门或项目的常规录取程序。特殊的非院系招生项目包括生物物理学项目和神经科学博士项目。除了满足其初级部门的博士学位要求外，每个受训者还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研讨会。学员还要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。所有这些活动都是为了提供一个跨学科的基础和论坛，让学员在小组中进行互动，而不仅仅是专注于个人研究活动。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。在受训者任期的早期就成立了阅读委员会，其主要职能之一是确保与生物技术有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门知识。旧金山湾区当地的生物技术产业为学员提供了智力和物质资源。每年春季举行的年度工业生物技术研讨会向受训者介绍并使他们接触到区域生物技术工业部门正在进行的科学和工程，并为他们提供接触大学周围人才的机会。在某些情况下，受训者在我们的工业合作伙伴提供的设施中进行一些非现场研究，也可能由工业导师共同建议。此外，如果大学的研究工作和工业伙伴之间有足够的共同利益，就有必要作出这样的安排，则向受训者提供实习机会，通常为期一个学期或三个月。该博士预科课程的主要目标是教学员熟练掌握各种物理、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个部门或学科的界限，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，我们的学员为在工业界和学术界从事生物技术职业做好了更好的准备。