Training Program in Clinical Neuroengineering(RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）： 临床神经工程培训计划（CNTP）将培训个人使用工程神经科学接口的跨学科方法来解决临床研究问题。我们定义临床神经工程非常广泛，包括临床和应用方面：神经接口，神经电子学，神经机械系统，神经信息学，神经成像，神经修复，神经功能和性能，神经控制，神经组织再生，神经信号处理，神经建模和神经计算。该CNTP将是一个跨学科的计划，建立在现有的卓越跨越5个学院，同时为学员提供一套共同的跨学科的经验。 CNTP学员将进入生物或工程背景的程序，必须满足现有的博士学位的要求。威斯康星州大学的一个项目。这些研究生课程将提供优秀的学科，学员需要成为各自领域的未来领导者。实习生将进行他/她的博士研究项目主办的教员培训师从程序与论文委员会至少有一名教员从每个组成程序的广泛的学科领域：神经科学，工程/物理科学和临床实践的额外要求。这一过程将确保学员将有一个真正的跨学科的研究经验，广泛接触到一个以上的学科。一套共同的跨学科经验将区分CNTP学员从他们的同龄人;这些将包括临床神经工程为导向的辅修课程计划，在CNTP学生研讨会计划的参与。该培训将包括适当的临床接触，使他们能够开发尖端的工程技术，并将其与真实的世界临床应用中的领先神经科学发现相结合。学生将在各种临床，基础神经生物学和工程实验室获得实践经验。临床经验将包括目前的医学治疗疾病，如帕金森氏症，肌萎缩侧索硬化症，脊髓损伤，阿尔茨海默氏症，癫痫和周围神经损伤。CNTP学员的共同经验将确保所有学员，无论他们的主要博士学位。计划，将在神经科学和工程原理和临床问题所需的功能作为跨学科的科学家和工程师在21世纪世纪熟练。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Clinical Neuroengineering Training Program (CNTP) will train individuals to use inter-disciplinary approaches from the engineering-neuroscience interface to solve clinical research problems. We define clinical neuroengineering very broadly to encompass clinical and applied aspects of: neural interfacing, neuroelectronics, neuromechanical systems, neuroinformatics, neuroimaging, neuronal prosthetics, neural functions and performance, neural control, neural tissue regeneration, neural signal processing, neural modeling and neurocomputation. The CNTP will be a interdisciplinary program that builds on existing excellence across 5 colleges while providing trainees a common set of cross-disciplinary experiences. CNTP trainees will enter the program with biology or engineering backgrounds and must fulfill the requirements of an existing Ph.D. program at the University of Wisconsin. These graduate programs will provide the disciplinary excellence that trainees need to become future leaders in their respective fields. The trainee will conduct his/her PhD research on a project sponsored by a faculty trainer from the program with the additional requirement that the thesis committee have at least one faculty member from each of the broad subject areas that makeup the program: neuroscience, engineering/physical science and clinical practice. This process will ensure that the trainees will have a truly interdisciplinary research experience with broad exposure to more than one discipline. A common set of cross-disciplinary experiences will distinguish CNTP trainees from their peers; these will include a clinical neuroengineering-oriented minor course program, participation in a CNTP student seminar program. This training will incorporate appropriate clinical exposure and allow them to develop cutting edge engineering technology and incorporate it with leading neuroscience discoveries in real world clinical applications. Students will receive hands-on experience in a variety of clinical, basic neurobiology, and engineering labs. The clinical experiences will include current medical treatments for diseases such as Parkinson's, ALS, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's, epilepsy, and peripheral nerve injury. The common experiences of CNTP trainees will ensure that all trainees, regardless of their major Ph.D. program, will be conversant in the neuroscience and engineering principles and clinical questions required to function as cross-disciplinary scientists and engineers in the 21st Century.