Diabetes, Endocrine, and Metabolic Disease

描述（由申请人提供）：这是我们在糖尿病，内分泌学和代谢疾病的长期培训计划的竞争性更新。在最近的资助周期中，每年有4名博士后研究员获得资助。在9个不同实验室工作的11名受训人员得到了支助。该计划旨在容纳两个博士学位。科学家和医学博士或医学博士或哲学博士他们中的大多数是通过宾夕法尼亚大学内分泌学、糖尿病和代谢临床奖学金项目进入的。在过去4年中，由T32支持的不再接受培训的博士后学员中，有一人在默克公司担任教职，两人分别在宾夕法尼亚大学和长岛犹太/霍夫斯特拉大学担任初级教师职务，一人在学术环境中私人执业。在下一个期间，我们请求提供更多支助，再增加一名研究员。我们还要求，第一次，足够的资金，以支持三个博士前的学生在研究生院的第三年到第五年期间在该计划的领域工作。目前，在我们的培训师指导的实验室中，有29名学生正在攻读博士学位。论文，大部分集中在与这个T32的使命相关的问题上，并且没有得到培训赠款的支持。五个（26%）是代表性不足的少数民族。我们的24名培训教师在七个医学院部门有主要任命，包括14名教授，7名副教授和3名助理教授。培训教员中有六名妇女，一名非裔美国人。在过去的两个资助周期中，六名教师被从赠款中除名，十二名教师被任命为培训赠款。培训补助金教师带来了2细胞发育和功能，激素作用，生理学，糖尿病并发症，人类和模式生物遗传学，转录调控，以患者为导向的研究，流行病学和生物统计学的专业知识。该培训计划继续为那些致力于糖尿病，内分泌学和代谢研究的科学家提供极好的准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a competitive renewal for our longstanding Training Program in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases. During the most recent funding cycle, 4 postdoctoral fellows were supported each year. A total of 11 trainees working in 9 different labs have been supported. The program is designed to accommodate both Ph.D. scientists as well as physician scientists with M.D. or M.D, Ph.D. degrees, of whom most enter through the Penn Clinical Fellowship Program in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Of the postdoctoral trainees supported by this T32 during the last 4 years who are no longer in training, one has a staff position at Merck, two have junior faculty positions at University of Pennsylvania and Long Island Jewish/Hofstra University, respectively and one is in private practice in an academic environment. For the next period, we request additional support to add one more fellow. We also request, for the first time, sufficient funds to support three predoctoral students working in the areas of this program during their third through fifth years of graduate school. At present, there are in laboratories directed by our trainers 29 students working towards their Ph.D. theses, the majority focusing on problems relevant to the mission of this T32 and unsupported by a training grants. Five (26%) are underrepresented minorities. Our 24 training faculty have primary appointments in seven Medical School Departments and consist of 14 professors, 7 associate professors, and assistant 3 professors. Six members of the training faculty are woman and one is African-American. In the last two funding cycles, six faculty members have been removed from the grant and twelve have been appointed to the training grant. Training grant faculty bring to the program expertise in 2-cell development and function, hormone action, physiology, diabetic complications, genetics in humans and model organisms, transcriptional regulation, patient oriented research, epidemiology and biostatistics. This training program continues to provide superb preparation for those scientists committed to careers in research into diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism.