Neuroscience Training Program

神经科学培训计划

• 批准号: 7286661
• 负责人: David D GINTY
• 金额: $ 23.23万
• 依托单位: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-07-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7286661
• 关键词: Neurosciences; Training Programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Neuroscience Graduate Program, which was begun in 1983, has its headquarters in the Department of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Consisting of 85 faculty drawn from various departments across the University, it serves as the hub of a broad spectrum of efforts for the training of graduate students, encompassing molecular, cellular, developmental, systems, cognitive and computational neuroscience as well as neurobiology of disease. Each year, from a pool of ~200 applicants, we typically matriculate 10-12 Ph.D. candidates as well as one to four candidates for combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees (who are admitted through a separate process). Students enter the program with diverse undergraduate backgrounds ranging from computer science to biochemistry. In the first year they are required to take a year-long integrative lecture course with lab entitled "Neuroscience and Cognition" as well as a seminar on "Science, Ethics and Society". Research opportunities are presented to students through a Departmental Retreat, Lab Lunches (which feature work-in-progress) and a Mini-symposium series by Program Faculty specifically designed to help first-year students choose their research rotations. This information is used to help pick three 12-week lab rotations which are typically completed by the end of the first academic year, following which, a thesis lab is selected. By the end of the second year, students complete six additional elective courses, many of which are chosen from a list of 12 small seminar-style courses in Neuroscience specialties. Following completion of a Comprehensive Exam at the end of Year Two, students write and defend a Thesis Proposal which is written in the form of a Predoctoral NRSA. Each student is advised by two Prethesis Advisors in Years One and Two (at three month intervals) and an individualized Thesis Advisory Committee thereafter (at six month intervals). Thesis Advisory Committees make reports to the Graduate Program Steering Committee which carefully tracks the progress of each student in the program as well as setting overall program policy. At present, 70 students are enrolled in the Neuroscience Graduate program. The average time to complete the Ph.D. has been 5.1 years. Of the students who have graduated from our program 92% have remained in biomedical research and 85% have remained in academic biomedical research.

描述（由申请人提供）：神经科学研究生项目始于 1983 年，总部位于约翰·霍普金斯大学医学院神经科学系。该学院由来自大学各个系的 85 名教职人员组成，是研究生培训的广泛努力的中心，涵盖分子、细胞、发育、系统、认知和计算神经科学以及疾病神经生物学。每年，我们通常会从约 200 名申请者中录取 10-12 名博士生。候选人以及一到四名联合医学博士/博士学位候选人。学位（通过单独的程序录取）。进入该项目的学生具有从计算机科学到生物化学等不同的本科背景。第一年，他们需要参加为期一年的综合讲座课程，实验室题为“神经科学与认知”，以及“科学、伦理与社会”研讨会。通过部门静修、实验室午餐（以正在进行的工作）和项目教师专门设计的小型研讨会系列向学生提供研究机会，以帮助一年级学生选择他们的研究轮换。这些信息用于帮助选择三个为期 12 周的实验室轮换，这些轮换通常在第一学年结束时完成，随后选择一个论文实验室。到第二年年底，学生将完成六门额外的选修课程，其中许多课程是从神经科学专业的 12 门小型研讨会式课程列表中选择的。在第二年末完成综合考试后，学生将撰写并答辩以博士前 NRSA 形式撰写的论文提案。每个学生在第一年和第二年都会得到两名论文顾问的建议（每三个月一次），此后还有一个个性化的论文咨询委员会（每六个月一次）。论文咨询委员会向研究生项目指导委员会提交报告，该委员会仔细跟踪每个学生在项目中的进展情况并制定总体项目政策。目前，神经科学研究生项目有 70 名学生就读。完成博士学位的平均时间已经5.1年了。从我们项目毕业的学生中，92% 继续从事生物医学研究，85% 继续从事学术生物医学研究。