Predoctoral Interdepartmental Training Program in Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：神经科学的研究已经变得越来越跨学科：通过专注于一个狭窄的专业领域来理解神经系统是不可能的。犹他大学跨系神经科学项目提供的研究生教育的基本原则是学生从一个非常广泛的角度来看待问题。该方法包括应用分子生物学、电生理学、经典胚胎学和行为协议等多种技术。各种各样的技术被两种智力方法统一起来，这两种方法使犹他大学闻名于世：人类疾病的研究和遗传学领域的卓越传统。51名由NIH资助的培训教员是从犹他大学13个院系的76名神经科学家中挑选出来的，他们在神经科学的5个特定领域进行研究：分子神经生物学、细胞神经科学、发育、大脑和行为以及神经生物学。这五个领域反映了项目的广度，并为45名在读学生提供了特殊的机会。这份更新申请为神经科学跨部门项目的三名一年级和三名二年级博士生提供资助。上一个奖励期间的所有培训职位都已填补，本申请要求为同样数目的受训人员提供经费。由于优秀的神经科学培训项目，最近的毕业生已被安排在耶鲁大学，斯坦福大学，哈佛大学，马萨诸塞大学，加州大学圣地亚哥分校和加州大学旧金山分校的优秀博士后奖学金。毫无疑问，来自跨部门神经科学项目的学员将继续成为神经科学研究的未来领导者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research in the neurosciences has become increasingly interdisciplinary: it is not possible to understand the nervous system by focusing on a narrow area of expertise. The principle underlying the graduate education offered by the University of Utah Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program is that students approach a problem from a very broad perspective. The approach includes the application of a diversity of techniques that range across molecular biology, electrophysiology, classical embryology and behavioral protocols. The diverse techniques are unified by two intellectual approaches that have made the University of Utah famous: the study of human disease and a tradition of excellence in the field of genetics. Fifty one NIH- funded training faculty members, chosen from among 76 neuroscientists in 13 departments at the University of Utah, are aligned in five specific areas of research in neuroscience: Molecular Neurobiology, Cellular Neuroscience, Development, Brain and Behavior, and Neurobiology. These five areas reflect the breadth of the program and provide exceptional opportunities to the 45 current students. This renewal application requests funding for three first year and three second year Ph.D. students in the Interdepartmental Program in Neuroscience. All of the training positions in the previous award period were filled and funding for the same number of trainees is requested in the present application. Due to the outstanding neuroscience training program, recent graduates have been placed in excellent postdoctoral fellowships at Yale, Stanford, Harvard, U Mass, UCSD, and UCSF. There is no doubt that trainees from the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program will continue to become future leaders in neuroscience research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at the University of Utah has a long history of training exceptional neuroscientists. This nationally recognized program provides a rigorous two year curriculum that prepares students to be critical, ethical, and creative as they design experiments that will advance the understanding of the brain. The future scientists that emerge from the Neuroscience Program have the tools to determine molecular and genetic mechanisms of neuronal disease or to design translational applications leading to clinical trials. From epilepsy, to drug addition, to blindness, the future impact of Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program students trained in basic and translational neuroscience research will one day greatly improve the quality of life for millions of Americans.