CHOP Pediatric Scholars Program

描述(申请人提供)：CHOP建议建立一个由NICHD赞助的CHRCDA K12项目。我们的目标是通过识别和培训有前途的儿科教员成为成功的内科科学家，并鼓励他们解决对儿童健康和疾病至关重要的问题，增加在分子技术方面具有严格背景和技能的儿科专科医生的数量和效率。我们计划的候选人将是从我们的次级专业研究员中任命的CHAP教师，并通过全国搜索。每名候选人将从29名导师中挑选一名未来的导师，其中22名来自儿科，另外7名来自宾夕法尼亚大学的其他地方。CHOP CHRCDA的导师是根据以下标准挑选的：与儿童相关的领域的严谨科学；成功的研究互动和指导记录；强大的外部资金；以及计划平衡。儿科学者将获得不少于两年的资助，以进行正式研究申请中列出的研究。他们将随时获得一个全面的分子核心，并有足够的机会在正式和非正式的环境中与其他高级和初级调查人员交流想法。我们认为CHRCDA是CHRC的自然继承者，CHRC在催化产生有能力进行基础研究的内科科学家方面非常成功。在我们举办CHRC的10年中，我们从11个儿科亚专业中挑选了39名MAP学者。在这些人中，85%的人继续从事学术工作，72%的人继续将超过50%的时间用于研究，71%的人成功地获得了一项或多项NIH个人拨款，包括16项R01或R29奖。我们的CHRCDA将发扬这一传统，并发扬CHOP作为儿科学术机构的优势，拥有一批杰出的专科研究员、具有尖端研究项目的经验丰富的导师、得到良好支持和资源丰富的研究环境，以及久经考验的研究培训传统。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The CHOP proposes to establish an NICHD- sponsored CHRCDA K12 program. Our goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of subspecialty pediatricians with a rigorous background and skills in molecular techniques by identifying and training promising pediatric faculty to become successful physician-scientists and encouraging them to address questions of fundamental importance to health and disease in children. Candidates for our program will be CHOP faculty appointed from our subspecialty fellows and through national searches. Each candidate will identify a prospective mentor from a group of 29 mentors, 22 from the Department of Pediatrics, the other 7 from elsewhere at the University of Pennsylvania. CHOP CHRCDA mentors were chosen by the following criteria: rigorous science in areas germane to children; a record of successful research interactions and mentoring; strong extramural funding; and programmatic balance. Pediatric Scholars will be supported for no less than two years to conduct research as outlined in their formal research applications. They will have ready access to a comprehensive Molecular Core and ample opportunities to exchange ideas in formal and informal settings with other senior and junior investigators. We view the CHRCDA as a natural successor to our CHRC, which was extremely successful in catalyzing the production of physician-scientists capable of conducting fundamental research. During the 10 years that we held the CHRC, we selected 39 MAPS Scholars from 11 pediatric subspecialties. Of these, 85% have remained in academics, 72% continue to spend more than 50% of their time in research, and 71% have succeeded in obtaining one or more individual NIH grants, including 16 R01 or R29 awards. Our CHRCDA will build on this tradition and upon CHOP's strengths as a pediatric academic institution with an outstanding pool of subspecialty fellows, experienced mentors with cutting edge research programs, a well supported and resource rich research environment, and a proven tradition of research training.