Research Training in Natural Products and Environmental Health

描述（申请人提供）：本资助申请中描述的项目是一项精心设计的研究培训活动，旨在将20名少数民族学生带到坦桑尼亚的达累斯萨拉姆大学，肯尼亚的埃杰顿大学和尼日利亚的贝宁大学，在那里，他们将通过参加天然产品和环境健康方面正在进行的和完善的研究计划来接受生物医学研究方面的培训。该计划将为学生提供一个机会，在促进不同思维方式的环境中从事生物医学研究，扩大团队合作的概念，提供接触新的和独特的研究领域，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。 新的研究技能将得到发展，并将建立联系，这无疑将导致未来在生物医学科学和其他专业领域的合作。所获得的技能，知识和经验将作为在这些和相关的生物医学科学领域的未来工作的重要刺激。事实上，这种经验将为发现新的职业道路提供一个平台。

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.