UIC Laboratory Animal Veterinary Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请由伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）提交，申请资金用于培训实验动物医学和转化研究方面的其他兽医。UIC有一个现有的培训计划，每年培养一名实验动物兽医。该提案将增加该计划的受训者人数，从而增加训练有素的实验动物兽医的数量，以支持协作生物医学研究计划。培训计划有两个方面，临床培训和研究培训。临床培训部分在该机构的核心动物设施生物资源实验室进行，该实验室容纳了校园使用的大多数动物。动物护理和使用项目庞大而复杂，占地超过131,000平方英尺。这里有91000多只动物，包括每天大约300只非人灵长类动物。转化研究培训部分在UIC个性化呼吸医学研究所进行，这是一个大型研究项目，由40多名科学家、博士后、研究生和拥有近20年培训未来科学家经验的研究技术人员组成。该计划在临床兽医学和转化研究方面具有广度和范围，提供密集和广泛的培训水平，并增加兽医的数量，以支持生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application is submitted by the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to request funding to train additional veterinarians in laboratory animal medicine and translational research. UIC has an existing training program that graduates one laboratory animal veterinarian per year. This proposal will increase the number of trainees admitted to the program, resulting in an increased number of highly-trained laboratory animal veterinarians to support collaborative biomedical research programs. There are two facets of the training program, clinical training and research training. The clinical training portion takes place at the institution's core animal facility, the Biologic Resources Laboratory, which houses the majority of animals used on campus. The animal care and use program is large and complex, encompassing over 131,000 sq. ft. of space and housing over 91,000 animals, including a daily census of approximately 300 nonhuman primates. The translational research training component occurs at UIC's Institute for Personalized Respiratory Medicine, a large research program staffed by over 40 scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and research technicians with almost 20 years experience training future scientists. The described program has the breadth and scope in both clinical veterinary medicine and translational research to provide an intensive and extensive level of training and increase the number of veterinarians available to support biomedical research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (provided by applicant): The purpose of the training program in laboratory animal medicine is to prepare veterinarians to support translational research in an academic setting. Given the nature of their training, laboratory animal veterinarians complement the effort to translate basic research quickly and efficiently into medical practice and thus, expand the positive impact on public health. The UIC program provides optimal training to graduates in the concepts, practice, and management of laboratory animal and biomedical research programs.