Translational Research Training Program in Gerontology and Geriatrics

描述(由申请人提供)：约翰霍普金斯大学医学院老年学和老年病学翻译研究培训计划的主要目标是教育和培训拥有医学和/或博士学位的合格个人，使其成为老年医学和老年学的独立研究人员。在奖学金培训结束时，候选人将为在大学医学中心老年病学部从事生物医学和临床衰老转化研究方面的学术生涯做好严格的准备。为了培养下一代的独立科学家和临床研究人员，他们将走在老龄化翻译研究的前沿，老年医学和老年病学部的培训包括开发特定技能集的核心课程，以及进一步发展这些技能集并传授学术翻译研究人员职业发展和生存技能的指导。为了实现研究培训计划的目标，研究员在约翰霍普金斯大学全职教员的指导下，通常与国家老龄研究所(NIA)的主要内部研究计划老年学研究中心(GRC)的高级工作人员合作，早期和广泛地参与实验室和临床翻译研究培训。这种受指导的研究经验包括与老年病学/老年学方案学院举行有组织的会议，并根据受训者的经历和兴趣进行监督研究项目，目的是制作一份或多份首创、同行评议的出版物和一份赠款申请，以支持进一步的研究。美国和世界上老年人的比例越来越高，这突显了培训未来老年学和老年病学研究人员的必要性。本申请是对该项目未来五年资金的申请，该项目的目标是培养未来的研究人员和学术领袖，他们将促进科学知识在学科和研究应用场所(人口研究；基础和临床科学；卫生保健政策和交付)之间的转化，以应对改善老年人健康的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective of the Translational Research Training Program in Gerontology and Geriatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is to educate and train qualified individuals with MD and/or PhD degrees to become independent investigators in geriatric medicine and gerontology. By the end of fellowship training, candidates are rigorously prepared for success in embarking on academic careers in biomedical and clinical translational research in aging within a geriatrics division of a university medical center. In order to train the next generation of independent scientists and clinical investigators who will be at the forefront of translational research on aging, the Division of Geriatric Medicine & Gerontology's training involves a core curriculum that develops specific skill sets, and mentoring that further develops those skill sets and imparts career development and survival skills for the academic translational researcher. To achieve the goals of the Research Training Program, fellows experience early and extensive involvement in laboratory and clinical translational research training under the tutelage of full-time faculty members at Johns Hopkins, often in collaboration with senior staff of the Gerontology Research Center (GRC), the major intramural research program of the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This mentored research experience includes structured meetings with Program Faculty in geriatrics/gerontology and a supervised research project tailored to the trainee's experiences and interests, with the goal of producing one or more first- authored, peer-reviewed publications and a grant application to support further research. The growing proportion of older adults in the United States and the world underlies the need to train future researchers in Gerontology and Geriatrics. This application is a request for the next five years of funding for this program, whose goal is to prepare the future researchers and academic leaders who will facilitate the translation of scientific knowledge between disciplines and venues of research application (population studies; basic and clinical science; health care policy and delivery) in order to meet the challenge of improving the health of the elderly.