Antecedants Sequelae of Childhood Onset Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份关于在德克萨斯大学西南医学中心（UTSW）建立儿童健康研究职业发展奖励计划的新提案，由儿科部门支持，George Lister为PI， Philip Shaul为TD。UTSW和儿科学部门的理想定位是提供环境、专门的导师、核心资源和有才华的临床科学家，他们将从这个奖项中受益匪浅，反过来，他们将成为下一代富有想象力的、独立的、成熟的研究人员，专注于对婴儿和儿童一生至关重要的疾病。我们的目标是：找到并匹配最有才华和最忠诚的未来儿科教师与最好的科学指导和研究环境，从而为我们的学者提供必要的工具和必要的基础，成为富有成效和创造性的科学家；提供时间、结构、财政支持和尽量减少干扰，以帮助鼓励他们采用新颖和富有想象力的策略来解决最重要和最复杂的医疗问题；并培养这些学者，以培养和加强对持久职业生涯至关重要的兴奋、坚韧和同伴互动。我们组织了这个职业发展项目，其总体主题是“儿童发病的前因后果”，有7个主题组成部分。在这些主题中研究的生物和病理生理过程对儿科学至关重要，它们利用了UTSW的现有优势，以及儿科学系导师和我们校园基础科学教师之间非常完善的研究和培训合作，它们代表了学校院长咨询委员会制定的最新战略计划中最优先考虑的领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a new proposal to establish a Child Health Research Career Development Award Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) under the aegis of the Department of Pediatrics with George Lister as PI and Philip Shaul as TD. UTSW and the Dept of Pediatrics are ideally positioned to provide the environment, the dedicated mentors, the core resources, and the stream of talented clinician-scientists that would benefit immeasurably from this award and would, in turn, become the next generation of imaginative, independent, and sophisticated investigators focused on the diseases of major importance to infants and children throughout their lifetimes. Our aims are: to identify and match the most talented and committed future pediatric faculty with the very best scientific mentorship and research environments on this campus, and thereby provide our Scholars with the requisite tools and needed foundation to become productive and creative scientists; to provide time, structure, financial support and minimal distraction to help encourage them to pursue novel and imaginative strategies to address the most important and perplexing medical problems; and to nurture these Scholars in order to foster and reinforce the excitement, fortitude, and peer interactions that are essential for a durable career. We have organized this Career Development Program with an overarching theme, Antecedents & Sequelae of Childhood Onset Diseases, with 7 thematic components. The biologic and pathophysiologic processes under study within these themes are of paramount importance to pediatrics, they capitalize on existing strengths at UTSW and very well established research and training collaborations existing between mentors in the Department of Pediatrics and the basic science faculty on our campus, and they represent areas of the highest priority in the newest strategic plan forged by the Dean's Advisory Committee at the school.