Training in Recovery of Function After CNS Injury

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份继续支持CNS可塑性和CNS损伤后功能恢复的机构培训补助金的申请。申请资助博士预科生4名，博士后4名，短期（3个月）研究员1名。该培训计划的长期目标是培养科学家和医生，使他们能够确定中枢神经系统损伤后功能恢复的机制，并确定和实施增强恢复的方法。这个应用程序汇集了华盛顿特区两个机构（乔治城大学和国家康复医院）的基础科学家和临床科学家。博士前受训者将从乔治城大学神经科学跨学科项目（一个基础广泛的、非专业的研究生项目，可获得神经科学博士学位）获得博士学位。一种针对中枢神经系统损伤后功能恢复的综合训练方案已被开发用于博士后前和博士后的训练。项目主任和培训教师是长期的导师和研究人员，项目主任在中枢神经系统损伤后功能恢复方面具有临床和基础科学经验。培训环境促进教师和学员的合作，多学科的研究努力。许多教员以前和现在都有合作；鼓励学生在具有互补研究兴趣的教师之间寻求共同指导。除了正式的课程和实验室研究轮转之外，pre- and - postdoctoral受训者还参加正在进行的系列研讨会，联合神经病学，神经外科，神经科学，全国专业会议，一个特别强调中枢神经系统可塑性，功能再生和恢复的期刊俱乐部，密集的实验室研究和写作和审稿培训，资助，并获得医学神经科学课程的指导教学机会。学员也有很多机会与来访的科学家互动，并在地方和国家会议上介绍他们的研究。由来自8个不同院系的21名经验丰富、资金充足的教师组成的团队将参与培训，他们具有丰富的培训记录，广泛的研究兴趣和与中枢神经系统损伤后功能可塑性和恢复相关的专业知识。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is an application for continued support of an Institutional Training Grant in CNS Plasticity and Recovery of Function after CNS Injury. The request is for support of four predoctoral and four postdoctoral trainees, and one short term (i.e. 3 month) fellow. The long-range goal of this training program is to prepare scientists and physicians who will be in a position to define the mechanisms underlying recovery of function following central nervous system injury and to identify and implement methods to enhance that recovery. This application brings together basic scientists and clinician scientists at two institutions in Washington, D.C. (Georgetown University and the National Rehabilitation Hospital). The predoctoral trainees will receive their Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Program in Neurosciences at Georgetown (a broad-based, non-departmental graduate program leading to a Ph.D. in Neuroscience). A comprehensive training program aimed at recovery of function after CNS injury has been developed for pre- and postdoctoral training. The Program Director and Training Faculty are long-time mentors and researchers and the Program Director has both clinical and basic science experience in recovery of function after CNS injury. The training environment fosters collaborative, multidisciplinary research efforts of both faculty and trainees. Many of the faculty have previous and ongoing collaborations; students are encouraged to seek co-mentorship between faculty with complementary research interests. In addition to formal coursework and laboratory research rotation, pre- and postdoctoral trainees participate in an ongoing seminar series, joint Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience grand rounds, national professional meetings, a journal club with special emphasis on CNS plasticity, regeneration and recovery of function, intensive laboratory research and training in writing and reviewing manuscripts, grantsmanship, and are provided mentored teaching opportunities in the Medical Neuroscience course. Trainees are also given many opportunities to interact with visiting scientists and to present their research at local and national meetings. An experienced and well-funded group of 21 faculty from 8 different departments with strong training records, a wide range of research interests and expertise relevant to plasticity and recovery of function after CNS injury will participate in training.