Training Grant in Academic Nutrition

描述(由申请人提供)： 学术营养培训助学金汇集了哈佛公共卫生学院和哈佛医学院的智力和体力资源，促进了学员和教职员工之间的密切互动，包括30名讲师和11名辅导员。首席研究员沃尔特·威利特博士和联合首席研究员W·艾伦·沃克博士已经建立了强有力的博士后和博士后项目，我们现在正在寻求扩大这些项目。该培训计划已经成功地招募了一批优秀的申请者干部，其中包括许多对营养科学研究表现出智力潜力和献身精神的博士。被我们计划录取的候选人将接受当代营养的四个关键领域的培训：营养生物化学、人类/临床营养学、营养流行病学和公共卫生营养学。我们的总体目标是融合基础科学和应用科学的概念、方法和科学工具，使学员能够超越传统的专业界限，面对21世纪的营养科学挑战。这一培训计划既是为最近完成本科学位并进入正式博士课程的个人设计的，也是为将进入密集研究培训计划并可选择获得正式学位的医生和其他博士课程的毕业生设计的。提供的学位包括营养生物化学博士学位和DSC学位。营养流行病学或公共卫生营养学。对于医学博士研究生，我们提供了一个独特的硕士课程，用于临床研究方面的培训。无论走哪条路，所有学位候选人都必须成功完成涉及基本生化和分子概念的教学课程，以及定量科学方面的高级培训，包括流行病学和生物统计学。所有受训人员都参加要求苛刻的、由导师指导的营养科学研究，这些研究由处于各自领域前沿的科学家指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training Grant in Academic Nutrition brings together the intellectual and physical resources of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, fostering close interactions between trainees and faculty, including 30 preceptors and 11 resource faculty. The Principal Investigator, Dr Walter Willett, and Co-Principal Investigator, Dr W Allan Walker, have established strong and vigorous pre- and postdoctoral programs that we are now seeking to expand. The Training Program has successfully recruited an outstanding cadre of applicants including many MDs who demonstrate intellectual promise and dedicated commitment to nutritional science research. Candidates accepted into our program receive training in four key areas of contemporary nutrition: Nutritional Biochemistry, Human/Clinical Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Public Health Nutrition. Our overall goal is to incorporate concepts, approaches, and scientific tools from both basic and applied science so that trainees are able to transcend conventional specialty boundaries to face the challenges of nutritional sciences in the 21st century. This Training Program is designed both for individuals who have recently completed their undergraduate degree and are entering a formal doctoral program, and for physicians and graduates of other doctoral programs who will enter an intensive research training program with options to obtain formal degrees. The degrees offered are the PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry, and the DSc. in Nutritional Epidemiology or Public Health Nutrition. For MD fellows, we offer a unique Masters Program for training in clinical investigation. Regardless of track, all degree candidates must successfully complete didactic coursework involving both basic biochemical and molecular concepts and advanced training in quantitative sciences, including epidemiology and biostatistics. All trainees participate in demanding "hands-on" preceptor-guided nutritional science research guided by scientists who are at the "cutting edge" of their fields.