Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry & Neuroscience

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案要求继续为加州大学圣地亚哥分校的NIMH提供资金，T32-MH18399，“生物精神病学和神经科学奖学金”。这个项目代表了加州大学圣迭戈分校心理健康研究培训的悠久传统。该计划的成功体现在其学员在出版物、主要奖项和后续资金方面的显著生产率。仅在最近的项目期间，学员就获得了五个NARSAD青年研究员奖、三个NIH K系列培训补助金和其他几个国家奖项。此外，所有最近毕业的项目都发表了首次发表的同行评议研究论文，报告了他们的团契工作，几乎所有人都继续在全职学术研究岗位上工作。对这类培训计划的需求是深远的。科学界和消息灵通的公众都希望并期待基础神经科学和遗传学方面的重大进展，如活着的人脑功能成像和基因组计划，将导致对精神障碍的理解和治疗方面的突破。然而，复杂的研究技术需要多年的培训才能掌握，而且缺乏能够使用这些方法来理解精神障碍的病因，并将基本发现转化为新疗法的研究人员，可能会阻碍其潜力的实现。尤其有问题的是，缺乏临床医生科学家，他们接受过必要的培训，走在生物精神病学的前沿，并将科学成果转化为新的治疗方法。在接下来的项目期间，该方案的具体目标是：1)利用具体的招聘战略，保持和改善方案受训人员的种族和学术多样性。2)通过促进精神科医生、临床心理学家和基础神经学家之间的动态组合来促进创新。3)提供对导师任务、研究项目和学员进度的系统监督，从进入项目之前开始，一直持续到整个培训过程。4)提供强大的研究性教学核心，但针对每个学员的特定需求量身定做要求。5)提供职业发展“生存技能”方面的持续教育和指导，这将促进受训者过渡到独立研究职业。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests continued NIMH funding for the University of California, San Diego "Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience", T32-MH18399. This program represents a long tradition in mental health research training at UCSD. The success of the program is demonstrated by the remarkable productivity of its trainees in terms of publications, major awards, and subsequent funding. In the most recent project period alone, trainees have received five NARSAD Young Investigator awards, three NIH K-series training grants, and several other national prizes. Furthermore, all recent program graduates have published first-authored peer-reviewed research papers reporting their Fellowship work, and nearly all continue to work in full-time academic research positions. The need for training programs of this kind is profound. Both the scientific community and the informed public hope and expect that major recent advances in basic neuroscience and genetics, such as functional imaging of the living human brain and the genome project, will lead to breakthroughs in the understanding and treatment of mental disorders. However, complex research technologies take years of training to master, and a lack of researchers who can use these methods to understand the etiology of psychiatric disorders, and transform basic findings into new therapies, could prevent their potential from being realized. Especially problematic is a lack of clinician-scientists who have the training necessary to work at the forefront of biological psychiatry and also translate scientific achievements into new treatments. In the coming project period, the specific goals of the program are: 1) Maintain and improve both the ethnic and the academic diversity of the program trainees using specific recruitment strategies. 2) Foster innovation by promoting exchange between a dynamic mix of psychiatric physicians, clinical psychologists and basic neuroscientists. 3) Provide systematic oversight of mentor assignments, research projects, and trainee progress beginning prior to program entry and continuing throughout training. 4) Provide a strong core of research didactics, yet tailor requirements to meet the specific needs of each trainee. 5) Provide continual education and mentorship in career development "survival skills" which will foster the trainees' transitions to independent research careers.