Research Training in Natural Products and Environmental Health

描述（由申请人提供）：本资助申请中描述的项目是一项结构严谨的研究培训活动，旨在将20名少数民族学生送到坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆大学、肯尼亚埃格顿大学和尼日利亚贝宁大学，在那里他们将通过参与正在进行的、完善的天然产品和环境健康研究项目，接受生物医学研究方面的培训。该计划将为学生提供一个在促进不同思维方式的环境中从事生物医学研究的机会，扩展团队合作的概念，提供接触新的和独特的研究领域的机会，并促进全球科学合作，特别强调发展中国家的生物医学问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The program described in this grant application is a carefully structured research training activity that is designed to take a group of twenty minority students to the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, Egerton University in Kenya, and the University of Benin, in Nigeria, where they will receive training in biomedical research by participating in on-going and well established research programs in natural products and environmental health. This program will provide students an opportunity to engage in biomedical research in an environment that promotes different ways of thinking, expands the concept of team work, provides exposure to new and unique areas of research, and promotes global cooperation in science with a particular emphasis on biomedical issues of developing countries. New research skills will be developed and linkages will be established that will no doubt lead to future collaborations in biomedical science and other professional areas. The skills, knowledge, and experience gained will serve as an important stimulus for future work in these and related biomedical science areas. Indeed the experience will provide a platform for the discovery of new career paths.