TRAINING PROGRAM IN ORGANOGENESIS

描述(由申请人提供)：在展望生物医学科学中跨学科方法至关重要的未来时，重要的是确定战略，以帮助下一代科学家成功地驾驭日益复杂的研究格局，并在学科之间开辟新的道路。器官发生学就是这样一门复杂而新兴的学科。密歇根大学器官发生中心成立于1995年，旨在将基础、应用和临床科学家团结在一起，实现一个共同的目标：了解器官和组织形成和维持的基本机制，并利用这些知识创造持久的人造器官、改进的干细胞疗法和有效的器官移植系统，以纠正获得性和遗传性人类疾病。器官发生培训计划于九年前启动，是该中心教育使命的组成部分。它的目标是：a)在器官发生领域提供智力和技术培训；b)通过让受训者接触跨越临床、基础和应用科学之间界限的研究，促进跨学科思维。这些目标是通过鼓励研究培训的双导师结构和要求受训者参加几项具体的培训活动来实现的：器官发生学正式课程、每月研讨会系列、每月见习生会议、期刊俱乐部、国际研讨会和器官发生学生和研究员协会(OFSA)。学员还积极制定培训计划，提出新的倡议，如生物艺术学，一种艺术、科学和公共教育的新组合，以及相声，一个改善基础和临床学员和导师之间沟通的论坛，从而提供了一种有效的机制，招募优秀的医学博士研究员参加培训计划。 这一竞争性续签要求支持6个博士后培训名额和3个博士后培训名额(其中一个专门针对医学博士研究生)。受训者主要来自培训项目中列出的33名导师的实验室，他们都是高度认可的科学家。正式的竞争性申请需要经过遴选委员会的审查，才能被该项目接受。该计划由几个内部机制和外部顾问(杜克大学布里吉德·霍根博士)监督，以确保其对不断变化的研究环境的需求持续做出反应。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As one looks to a future in which interdisciplinary approaches in the biomedical sciences are crucial, it is important to identify strategies to help the next generation of scientists successfully navigate an increasingly complex research landscape and to forge new paths on the edges among disciplines. The field of organogenesis is one such complex and emerging discipline. The Center for Organogenesis at University of Michigan was formed in 1995 to unite basic, applied, and clinical scientists with a common goal: To understand the basic mechanisms by which organs and tissues are formed and maintained, and to use this knowledge to create long-lasting artificial organs, improved stem cell therapies, and effective organ transplantation systems that will correct acquired and genetic human diseases. The Training Program in Organogenesis, initiated nine years ago, is an integral part of the educational mission of the Center. Its goals are: a) to provide intellectual and technical training in the field of Organogenesis; and b) to promote interdisciplinary thinking by exposing trainees to research that crosses boundaries among the clinical, basic, and applied sciences. These goals are accomplished by encouraging a two-mentor structure for research training and requiring trainees to participate in several specific training activities: formal courses in Organogenesis, a Monthly Seminar series, Monthly Trainee Meeting, Journal Club, International Symposium, and the Organogenesis Students and Fellows Association (OFSA). Trainees also actively shape the training program, proposing new initiatives such as Bioartography, a novel combination of art, science, and public education and Crosstalk, a forum that improves communication between basic and clinical trainees and mentors thus provides an effective mechanism to recruit outstanding M.D. fellows to the training program. This competitive renewal requests support for six predoctoral and three postdoctoral training slots (one specifically targeted to an M.D. fellow). Trainees come primarily from the laboratories of the 33 listed mentors on the training program, all of whom are highly recognized scientists. Formal competitive applications, reviewed by a selection committee, are required for acceptance into the program. The program is monitored by several internal mechanisms and also by an External Advisor (Dr. Brigid Hogan, Duke University) to ensure its continued responsiveness to demands of an ever-changing research environment.