Training in Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases

描述（由申请人提供）：凯斯西储大学（CWRU）的地理医学和传染病培训计划为4名博士后提供严格的研究培训。或博士研究员每年。自1977年开始以来，该计划一直强调跨学科的研究培训，以了解和解决传染病问题，特别是由具有免疫学，遗传学，分子生物学，生物化学，流行病学，生物统计学，临床试验设计和临床结果互补专业知识的科学家共同指导，因为它们涉及感染的发病机制，传播和控制。项目教师包括来自10个部门和3个中心的28名导师，所有导师都位于CWRU校园和Louis B的健康科学综合体内。斯托克斯退伍军人管理局医疗中心。受训人员通过一个过程，包括在课程的参与，个人实验室研究会议和定期研讨会，并参加国家和国际会议的指导。所有导师都有独立的NIH或其他校外研究资金，并与CWRU的相关结构密切合作，促进传染病研究-NIH结核病研究单位，艾滋病研究中心，艾滋病临床试验单位，生物防御和新兴传染病研究的中西部地区卓越中心，以及抗菌素耐药性和流行病学中心。该方案的28名导师中有4名是妇女，2名是代表性不足的少数民族。该方案强调在美国和发展中国家具有重大健康意义的传染病-抗菌药物耐药性、肺结核、疟疾、艾滋病毒、慢性蠕虫感染，包括“被忽视的热带疾病”丝虫病和血吸虫病以及新出现的感染。一个独特的特点是有机会参加海外研究中心的研究，那里的项目导师正在进行NIH资助的项目，如乌干达，肯尼亚，巴布亚新几内亚，巴西和南非。美国学员还可以与参加CWRU福格蒂国际中心支持的乌干达和巴布亚新几内亚伙伴关系项目的外国合作者互动。22名博士后研究员在1998年至2008年期间完成了培训; 17名现在担任学术职务，已获得NIH或其他研究赠款或正在继续进行研究培训。该方案特别寻求从代表性不足的少数民族以及残疾人和弱势群体中招募受训人员。 相关性：地理医学和传染病培训计划将教育下一代科学家负责制定战略，以治疗和控制具有全球意义的感染，特别是结核病，艾滋病，疟疾，抗微生物药物耐药性，蠕虫病和可能在美国引入或传播的新感染。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases Training Program at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) provides rigorous research training for 4 post-doctoral M.D. or Ph.D. fellows per year. Since its beginning in 1977, the Program has emphasized interdisciplinary training in research to understand and solve infectious disease problems, particularly co-mentorship by scientists with complementary expertise in immunology, genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trial design and clinical outcomes as they relate to the pathogenesis, transmission and control of infection. Program faculty includes 28 mentors from 10 departments and 3 centers, all located within the health sciences complex on the CWRU campus and the Louis B. Stokes Veterans Administration Medical Center. Trainees are mentored by a process that includes participation in coursework, individual lab research meetings and regular seminars, and attending national and international meetings. All mentors have independent NIH or other extramural research funding, and work closely with related structures at CWRU that promote infectious diseases research -the NIH Tuberculosis Research Unit, Center for AIDS Research, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Midwest Regional Center of Excellence in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research, and the Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology. Four of the Program's 28 mentors are women, and 2 are an underrepresented minority. The Program emphasizes infectious diseases that have great health significance in the United States and the developing world - anti-bacterial drug resistance, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV, chronic worm infections that include the "Neglected Tropical Diseases" filariasis and schistosomiasis and emerging infections. A unique feature is the opportunity to participate in research at overseas sites where Program mentors have ongoing NIH-funded projects, e.g. Uganda, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Brazil and South Africa. U.S. trainees may also interact with foreign collaborators participating in CWRU Fogarty International Center-supported partnership programs in Uganda and Papua New Guinea. 22 postdoctoral fellows completed their training between 1998 and 2008; 17 now hold academic positions, have been awarded NIH or other research grants or are continuing with research training. The Program especially seeks to recruit trainees from underrepresented minorities as well as disabled and disadvantaged individuals. RELEVANCE: The Geographic Medicine and Infectious Disease Training Program will educate the next generation of scientists charged with developing strategies to treat and control infections of global significance, particularly TB, AIDS, malaria, antimicrobial drug resistance, worm diseases, and emerging infections that may be introduced or spread in the United States.