Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Program in Immunology

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的免疫学培训计划的目的是为学术界、工业界和政府研究实验室提供具有高度创造力和生产力的免疫学家，他们在免疫学方面接受过广泛培训，在其研究专业方面接受过良好培训，并在相关领域接受过教育。这一目标将通过让博士前学生遵循一套特定的课程来实现，作为罗切斯特医学中心（URMC）大学既定跨部门研究生培训环境中免疫学轨道的一部分。环境将由一个互动的免疫学教师致力于卓越的教学和合作研究，并致力于免疫学培训培育;学员及其导师的积极免疫学研究计划;结构化的讲座课程在基础和高级水平和辅助共同研讨会，一系列高级研讨会课程，一个研究进展中的研讨会系列和一个期刊俱乐部;一个活跃的系列研讨会，并通过催化一些受训人员。这将发生在一个部门与病毒学，微生物学和疫苗生物学，将有助于接受培训的广度强有力的补充计划。研究培训机会在各种各样的免疫学问题的范围内：B细胞生物学; T细胞生物学;炎症;肿瘤免疫;自身免疫;免疫进化;和神经免疫系统的相互作用将提供给前和博士后研究员由经验丰富，有才华的初级培训教师与强大的校外资金记录和合作的历史。他们将得到一批资源教师的帮助，这些教师将在智力和技术上为免疫学相关项目做出贡献。我们将继续加强我们已经成功的战略，以招募和培养少数民族和妇女学生，并为所有受训人员提供必要的技能，使他们能够成为独立的科学家，并对研究的道德行为表示赞赏。这些训练有素的科学家将提供下一代的研究人员和教师，以进一步推动基础科学和转化研究的进步，以改善这个国家的医疗保健。要求在5年内每年为8名博士前和1名博士后培训人员提供培训支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aims of the proposed Immunology Training Program is to provide academia, industry, and governmental research laboratories with highly creative and productive immunologists who are broadly trained in immunology, well trained in their research specialty and schooled in interrelated fields. This goal will be achieved by having the predoctoral students follow a defined set of program-specific courses as part of the Immunology Track set in the established interdepartmental graduate training milieu of the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). The environment will be fostered by an interactive Immunology faculty dedicated to excellence in teaching and collaborative research and committed to immunology training; active immunological research programs of trainees and their mentors; structured lecture courses at the basic and advanced levels and an adjunct co-seminar, a series of advanced level seminar courses, a research-in-progress seminar series and a journal club; an active seminar series, and by a catalytic number of trainees. This will occur within a department with strong complementary programs in virology, microbiology and vaccine biology that will contribute to the breadth of training received. Research training opportunities in a wide variety of immunological problems within the purview of: B cell biology; T cell biology; inflammation; tumor immunity; autoimmunity; evolution of immunity; and neural-immune system interactions will be offered to pre- and post-doctoral fellows by an experienced, talented primary training faculty with strong records of extramural funding and an established history of collaboration. They will be assisted by a cadre of resource faculty that will contribute intellectually and technically to immunologically relevant projects. We will continue to strengthen our already successful strategies to recruit and nurture minority and women students and to provide all of the trainees with the essential skills to become independent scientists with an appreciation for the ethical conduct of research. These trained scientists will provide the next generation of researchers and teachers to further the advances in basic science and translational studies needed to improve healthcare in this country. Training support is requested for 8 predoctoral and 1 postdoctoral trainee in each of 5 years.