Epilepsy Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）： 这份修订后的提交材料要求重新支持机构博士后培训计划，以便每年招募和教育四名受训人员，从事与神经生物学、合并症和人类癫痫治疗密切相关的研究领域的职业。拟议的培训将在来自五个部门的12名导师的实验室进行，并将包括特定于计划的课程和临床翻译实地考察，以及研讨会，讨论组和专题讨论会。该计划的前四年一直是有益的，因为八名计划毕业生都留在学术界：两名现在是终身教职的助理教授，一名是教师，两名是UCI部分独立职位的教师，两名正在寻求额外的博士后奖学金，以完成他们在癫痫研究方面的教育。到目前为止，总共招收了12名优秀的受训人员，包括两名代表人数不足的群体、一名医学博士和七名妇女。这些初步的结果数据，加上该计划的全面重组，增加了计划特定的课程和面向临床的实地考察，以及最近在神经外科部门的MD实习生池的可用性，将使该计划能够为博士后博士和MD提供结构化和培育培训环境，用于癫痫相关研究的职业生涯。虽然癫痫是第三常见的慢性脑部疾病，但它仍然相对不足，目前的项目是美国仅有的两个以癫痫为重点的博士后培训项目之一。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This revised submission requests renewed support for an Institutional Postdoctoral Training Program, to enable recruitment and education of four Trainees per year for careers in research areas germane to the neurobiology, co-morbidities and cure of human epilepsy. The proposed training will take place in the laboratories of 12 preceptors from five departments, and will include Program-specific courses and clinical-translational field trips, as well as seminars, discussion groups and symposia. The first four years of this Program have been rewarding, as the eight Program graduates all remain in Academia: Two are now Assistant Professors in the tenure track, one is a faculty instructor, two are faculty in partially-independent positions at UCI, and two are pursuing additional post-doctoral fellowships to round out their education in epilepsy research. Altogether, twelve excellent Trainees have been enrolled to date, including two of under-represented groups, one MD and seven women. These initial outcome data, together with the comprehensive restructuring of the Program, the addition of Program-specific courses and clinic-oriented field trips, and the recent availability of an MD trainee pool in the Department of Neurosurgery, will enable this Program to provide postdoctoral PhDs and MDs with a structured and nurturing training environment for careers in research relevant to epilepsy. Although epilepsy is the third most common chronic brain disorder, it remains relatively understudied, and the current Program is one of only two epilepsy-focused postdoctoral Training Programs in the U.S.