Training Program in Environmental Toxicology

描述(由申请人提供) 在过去的30年里，超过300名学生接受了这个项目的毒理学培训。硕士研究生18人，博士研究生102人，博士后139人，医学本科生(短期实习生)55人。这份提案中包含了为毒理学培训计划(TTP)额外提供五年资金的请求。为支持这一点，提供了关于招收和留住学生，包括少数群体研究员的详细情况。还包括过去十年来该计划的变化，包括课程的修改和现代化。由于持续不断的机构支持，TTP在过去十年中发生了变化，使培训现代化，改善招聘，精简和更新课程，增加参与教师的数量，并增加学生接触外部领导者和该领域的机会，并在药理学、毒理学和治疗学(DPTT)系招聘了18名教师，并计划在未来五年再招聘7名教师。此外，该计划还增加了来自其他基础科学系的教员以及一些临床研究人员，并开发了一个肝脏中心，以增加培训计划的翻译方面。因此，该项目的定位是保持其作为毒理学培训卓越中心的国际声誉。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) During the past 30 years, over 300 students have received instruction in the toxicological sciences Toxicology Training from this program. Among our trainees were 18 who received Master's degrees, 102 who received Ph.D. degrees, 139 postdoctoral fellow, and 55 medical students (short-term trainees). Contained in this proposal is a request for five additional years of funding for this Toxicology Training Program (TTP). In support of this, details are provided on recruiting and retaining students, including minority fellows. Also included are changes in the program over the past decade including modifications in and modernization of the curriculum. Thanks to continued institutional support, the past decade has witnessed changes in the TTP to modernize the training, to improve recruitment, to streamline and update courses, to increase the number of participating faculty, and to enhance student exposure to outside leaders and opportunities in the field, and the recruitment of 18 faculty in the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Therapeutics (DPTT), and with the plan to hire another seven faculty over the next five years. In addition, faculty from other basic science departments have been added to the program as well as a number of clinical researchers and the development of a Liver Center to increase the translational aspects of the training program. Therefore, the program is positioned to maintain its international reputation as a Center of Excellence for training in toxicology.