CHOP Pediatrics Scholars Program

描述（由申请人提供）：费城儿童医院（CHOP）提议继续nichd赞助的儿童健康研究职业发展奖（CHRCDA） K12培训计划。我们的目标是通过识别和培训有前途的儿科教师，使他们成为成功的内科科学家，从而增加具有严格分子技术背景和技能的亚专科儿科医生的数量和效率，并鼓励他们解决对儿童健康和疾病至关重要的问题。我们项目的候选人将主要是CHOP的初级教师，从我们的亚专业奖学金项目中任命，他们是通过全国范围内最优秀和最聪明的人才来确定的。每位候选人将从38位导师中确定一位未来的导师，其中34位来自CHOP（儿科，病理学，外科），4位来自宾夕法尼亚大学（Penn）。这些CHOP-CHRCDA导师的选择标准如下：在与儿科学密切相关的领域有严谨的科学研究，有成功指导和合作研究互动的记录，有良好的校外资助记录，以及项目平衡。一般来说，儿科学者将获得两年的支持，以进行其正式研究申请中概述的研究。他们将随时可以使用一系列全面的研究核心实验室，并且他们将有充分的机会在正式和非正式的环境中与高级和其他初级研究人员交换意见。我们认为CHRCDA是我们之前的儿童健康研究中心（CHRC）拨款的自然继承者：儿科科学分子方法（MAPS），这在催化能够进行基础独立研究的医师科学家的生产方面非常成功。在过去的14年里，我们已经从广泛的亚专业中确定并培训了47名儿科学者。CHOP-CHRCDA的延续将以MAPS资助的传统和CHRCDA的前四年为基础，利用CHOP作为儿科学术机构的巨大优势，拥有优秀的亚专业研究员，大量经验丰富的导师和前沿的研究项目。CHOP和宾夕法尼亚大学提供了一个非常全面、支持良好、资源密集的环境，以及培养基础和转化学术研究人员的良好记录。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) proposes to continue the NICHD-sponsored Child Health Research Career Development Award (CHRCDA) K12 Training Program. Our goal is to increase the number and effectiveness of subspecialty pediatricians with a rigorous background and skills in molecular techniques by identifying and training promising pediatric faculty to become successful physician-scientists, and to encourage them to address questions of fundamental importance to health and disease in children. Candidates for our program will be primarily CHOP junior faculty, appointed from our subspecialty fellowship programs, who are identified through national searches for the best and the brightest. Each candidate will identify a prospective mentor from a group of 38 mentors, 34 from CHOP (Pediatrics, Pathology, Surgery) and 4 from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). These CHOP-CHRCDA mentors were chosen by the following criteria: rigorous science in areas germaine to pediatrics, a record of successful mentoring and collaborative research interactions, strong record of extramural funding, and programmatic balance. In general, Pediatric Scholars will be supported for two years to conduct research as outlined in their formal research applications. They will have ready access to a comprehensive array of research core laboratories, and they will have ample opportunity to exchange ideas in both formal and informal settings with senior and other junior investigators. We view the CHRCDA as a natural successor to our prior Child Health Research Center (CHRC) grant: Molecular Approaches to Pediatric Science (MAPS), which was highly successful in catalyzing the production of physician-scientists capable of conducting fundamental, independent research. In the past 14 years, we have identified and trained 47 Pediatric Scholars from a wide range of subspecialties. This continuation of our CHOP-CHRCDA will build on the tradition of our MAPS grant and the first four years of our CHRCDA, taking advantage of the tremendous strengths of CHOP as an academic pediatric institution with an outstanding pool of subspecialty fellows, a large number of experienced mentors, and cutting edge research programs. CHOP and Penn provide a very comprehensive, well-supported and resource-intense environment, as well as a proven track record of training basic and translational academic investigators.