Nutrition Sciences and Health

描述(由申请人提供)： 这是一项由埃默里大学营养与健康科学(NHS)项目管理的培训补助金的竞争性延续提案。这笔培训补助金对1993年建立的NHS计划的稳定和发展至关重要。在两个资助周期(1996-01年和2002-06年)期间，基金资助了22名博士生；12名已完成博士学位，其余的仍在留校期间状态良好。这些学员获得了许多奖项和奖学金，在国内和国际会议上发表了他们的工作，并在被引用的期刊上发表了许多文章。大多数毕业生都在学术界、公共或私营部门找到了有前途的职位。 营养领域的复杂性使学生在营养研究方面的培训尤其具有挑战性，因为学生必须在关键专业领域获得深度，同时学习如何在许多学科之间发挥作用，而这些学科本身也在迅速变化。NHS项目就是这种跨学科培训的典范。NHS提供从基础科学到临床研究到公共卫生的严格跨学科培训，并为学生提供必要的技能，以调查营养与人类健康之间的关系，包括预防和控制营养问题以及国家和全球关注的相关疾病。NHS计划并不设在任何一个部门；相反，它的教职员工来自整个大学(主要来自医学院和公共卫生学院)和位于埃默里校园的两个机构，即疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)和美国癌症协会。 由于埃默里大学强调博士项目的增长，也因为NHS项目申请者的强烈需求，我们要求增加实习生的数量，从每年4人增加到6人。博士前培养计划包括核心课程和选修课、3个导师研究项目和学位论文研究。我们还要求在第2至第5年每年提供两个博士后实习生(共4名实习生，每个实习生在培训期间最多为期两年)，作为补助金的新增加。强大的研究环境为博士后候选人的研究和指导提供了许多机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competing continuation proposal for a training grant administered by the Nutrition and Health Sciences (NHS) program of Emory University. The training grant has been critical for stability and development of the NHS program, which was established in 1993. Over the duration of the two funding cycles (1996-01 and 2002-06), funds have supported 22 doctoral students; twelve have completed their PhD, while the rest are still in residence and in good standing. These trainees have won numerous awards and fellowships, have presented their work at national and international meetings, and have published many articles in refereed journals. Most graduates have gone on to promising positions in academia and in the public or private sector. The complexities of the field of nutrition make the training of students in nutrition research particularly challenging because students must acquire depth in key specialized areas while learning how to function at the interfaces among many disciplines that are, themselves, changing rapidly. The NHS program is a model for such interdisciplinary training. The NHS offers rigorous interdisciplinary training that spans the spectrum from basic sciences through clinical research to public health, and provides students with the necessary skills to investigate the relationship between nutrition and human health, including the prevention and control of nutritional problems and related diseases of national and global concern. The NHS program is not housed administratively in any one department; rather, its faculty come from across the university (primarily from departments in the schools of medicine and public health) and from two institutions located on the Emory campus, namely The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Cancer Society. As a result of the emphasis at Emory on growth of doctoral programs and also because of a strong demand from applicants to the NHS program, we are requesting an increase in the number of trainees, from four to six per year. The training program for predoctoral students consists of core and elective courses, 3 mentored research projects, and dissertation research. We are also requesting, as a new addition to the grant, two postdoctoral traineeships during each of years 2-5 (a total of 4 trainees, each for a maximum of two years over the training period). A strong research environment provides many opportunities for research and mentoring of postdoctoral candidates.