Predoctoral Training in the Neurobiology of Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议创建一个多学科 在老化的神经生物学博士前培训计划，解决了 博士培养和D. O./博士学生作为未来的研究人员在一个领域， 由于美国的老龄化，急需。培训计划将 从最近成立的老年痴呆症研究所 （IAADR）在北德克萨斯大学健康科学中心-沃思堡 （UNTHSC-FW），其成立的目的是加强和集中研究、培训和 在可预防的脑老化中的推广。在James W. Replikins，这个培训项目将招募优秀的博士。和D. O./博士 学生接受培训，包括严格的现有教学课程 以及新的培训活动，包括衰老的神经生物学课程， 一个衰老的神经生物学系列研讨会，一个衰老的神经生物学杂志俱乐部， 以及年度实习生座谈会。被提议的导师有着良好的记录 培养本科生、研究生和博士后研究员， 在衰老的神经生物学上得到了很好的资助和发表。培训 该计划将补充和加强已经出色的记录， 机构在博士前培训，特别是在招聘 少数民族进入博士前培训。最后，我们将创建一个包含10个组件的 监督我们的学员和培训计划的成功计划。 所设想的方案是联合国人类住区委员会-家庭福利部总体努力的一个重要部分 加强对艾滋病的病因、治疗和预防的研究和培训， 脑老化及其引发的疾病

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to create a multi-disciplinary pre-doctoral training program in the neurobiology of aging that addresses the training of Ph.D. and D.O./Ph.D. students as future researchers in an area of critical need due to the graying of America. The training program emanates from the recent creation of the Institute for Aging and Alzheimer's Research (IAADR) at the University of North Texas Health Science Center-Fort Worth (UNTHSC-FW), which was formed to enhance and focus research, training, and outreach in preventable brain aging. Under the direction of Dr. James W. Simpkins, this training program will recruit outstanding Ph.D. and D.O./Ph.D. students into training that includes a rigorous, existing didactic curriculum as well as new training activities, including a neurobiology of aging course, a neurobiology of aging seminar series, a neurobiology of aging journal club, and an annual Trainee Symposium. The proposed preceptors have a strong record of training undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and are well funded and well published in the neurobiology of aging. The training program will complement and enhance the already excellent record of the institution in pre-doctoral training, particularly in the recruitment of minorities into pre-doctoral training. Finally, we will create a 10-component program of monitoring the success of our trainees and the training program. The program envisioned is a vital part of an overall effort of the UNTHSC-FW to enhance research and training into the causes, treatments and prevention of brain aging and its consequential diseases.