Training in Molecular, Cellular, and Chemical Biology

描述（申请人提供）：分子，细胞和化学生物学培训计划（MCCB）的使命是培养包括生物学和化学领域在内的跨学科研究领域的杰出青年科学家。MCCB培训计划目前是其第二年，从长期的生物化学培训计划发展而来。生物化学培训计划的历史跨越了大约45年，培养了数百名世界级的研究人员和科学家，被认为是该国最有效的培训计划之一，培养了生化科学前沿的研究人员。许多过去的受训者在研究生时期以及随后在学术界和工业界担任独立研究人员的领导职位时，对科学做出了杰出贡献。虽然生物化学项目包括了来自分子和细胞生物学（MCB）和化学和化学生物学（CCB）系的参与者，但它并没有试图将这两组学员之间的联系正式化。在过去的十年里，随着化学和生物学的学科越来越紧密地交织在一起，迫切需要一个真正跨学科的培训体验。为了响应生物和化学领域研究的更广泛和进步的方向，MCB和CCB部门于2001年联合创建了分子，细胞和化学生物学培训计划。这不仅是一个修订的方案，而且是对其前身的研究、课程、行政和培训内容的全面和有力的重组。MCCB的学员有MCB和CCB的课程要求，由两个系的教师组成的咨询委员会共同监督，并有许多项目赞助的机会与他们的同龄人和参与MCCB的教师互动。例如，化学系（CCB）在其130多年的历史中首次为其学员提供参加研究轮转的机会。学员对这些轮转的积极反应导致了前所未有的行动，要求所有CCB学生进行研究轮转。虽然新的MCCB项目运行的时间相对较短，但我们相信，这个新的化身将在培养新一代生物化学家方面延续其悠久的卓越历史。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the Training Program in Molecular, Cellular and Chemical Biology (MCCB) is to foster the development of outstanding young scientists in interdisciplinary research encompassing the fields of biology and chemistry. The MCCB training program is currently in its second year, having evolved from the long standing Training Program in Biochemistry. With a history spanning some 45 years and producing hundreds of world class researchers and scientists, the Training Program in Biochemistry had been regarded as among the most effective in the country, producing researchers at the forefront of the biochemical sciences. Many of its past trainees have made outstanding contributions to science both as graduate students and subsequently, in positions of leadership as independent investigators in academe and industry. While the Biochemistry Program has included participants from both the Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) and Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) Departments, it did not attempt to formalize connections between these two sets of trainees. As the disciplines of chemistry and biology have become increasingly interwoven in the last decade, an urgent need developed to move toward a truly interdisciplinary training experience. In response to the broader and progressive direction in research in the fields of biology and chemistry, the MCB and CCB departments joined together in 2001 to create the Training Program in Molecular, Cellular and Chemical Biology. This is not merely a revised program, but a comprehensive and robust reorganization of the research, curricular, administrative and training elements of its predecessor. Trainees in MCCB have course requirements in both MCB and CCB, are jointly overseen by an Advisory Committee comprised of faculty from both departments, and have numerous program-sponsored opportunities for interaction with their peers and the participating MCCB faculty. For instance, for the first time in its more than one hundred thirty year history, the Chemistry (CCB) department has offered its trainees the opportunity to participate in research rotations. The overwhelmingly positive response of the trainees to these rotations resulted in the unprecedented move to require research rotations of all CCB students. While the new MCCB program has been in operation for a relatively brief period of time, we believe this new incarnation will continue a long history of excellence in training a new generation of biochemists.