Biomedical-Behavioral Interface: Prevention and Developmental Sciences Training

描述(由申请人提供)：本次培训资助续期的重点是继续支持一项跨学科研究培训计划，该计划将行为科学和生物医学结合在一起，以横向主题强调广泛定义的预防和发展科学。博士前培训方案被称为行为-生物医学接口方案(BBIP)，通过NIGMS“行为与生物医学接口”倡议(PAR-06-503)获得了培训资助。BBIP从三个与行为科学密切相关的单位招收学员：流行病学、运动科学和心理学。许多行为科学教师导师正在研究与健康相关的研究问题，这些问题与预防科学、发展科学(从生命周期的角度出发)或两者都有联系，包括转化研究和动物模型。提供跨学科培训的是教师导师、实验室主持人和项目负责人，他们运用了广泛的学科，如生物科学、流行病学、运动科学、家庭和预防医学、遗传学、老年病学、环境健康科学、神经科学、药理学、生理学、预防科学、心理学和定量方法/生物统计学。BBIP旨在提供一个有凝聚力的综合课程，让学生感觉到联系在一起，并有足够的机会和场所与各系的许多项目教职员工和学生互动。所有BBIP学员完成遗传学、内分泌学、神经生物学/神经科学、负责任的研究行为、定量方法以及关于预防和发展科学中生物医学和行为研究的接口的综合研讨会，同时完成他们的学科课程要求。三次实验室轮换使学员接触到不同的研究方法和视角。学员和教职员工参加的研讨会反映了尖端的行为-生物医学接口，提供了与国内和国际声誉的特邀演讲者互动的机会。该计划包括促进有效的指导，强调专业-科学发展，以及在项目完成期间和之后对学员进行多维度的跟踪，以评估项目。该培训计划旨在培养精通生物医学科学的行为科学家的能力，以便更有效地为旨在了解和预防重大健康障碍和疾病的研究做出贡献，并在整个生命周期内促进积极的健康结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training-grant renewal focuses on continuation of support for a program of interdisciplinary research training that interfaces the behavioral and biomedical sciences, with a cross-cutting theme emphasizing prevention and developmental sciences broadly defined. The pre-doctoral training program, which is called the Behavioral-Biomedical Interface Program (BBIP), received training-grant support through the NIGMS "Interface of the Behavioral and Biomedical Sciences" initiative (PAR-06-503). BBIP draws trainees from three units that are heavily involved in the behavioral sciences: Epidemiology, Exercise Science, and Psychology. Many of the behavioral-sciences faculty mentors are working on health-related research problems that are linked to prevention science, the developmental sciences (broadly conceived from a lifespan perspective), or both, including translational research and animal models. Providing the cross-disciplinary training are faculty mentors, laboratory hosts, and program leaders who bring to bear a broad array of disciplines such as biological sciences, epidemiology, exercise science, family and preventive medicine, genetics, geriatrics, environmental health sciences, neuroscience, pharmacology, physiology, prevention science, psychology, and quantitative methods/biostatistics. BBIP is designed to provide a cohesive, integrated program where students feel connected and have adequate opportunities and venues for interacting with many program faculty and students across departments. All BBIP trainees complete coursework in genetics, endocrinology, neurobiology/neuroscience, responsible conduct of research, quantitative methods, and an integrative seminar on the interface of biomedical and behavioral research in prevention and developmental sciences, while also completing their disciplinary course requirements. Three laboratory rotations expose trainees to a variety of research methods and perspectives. Trainees and faculty are exposed to seminars that reflect cutting-edge behavioral-biomedical interface, affording opportunities to interact with invited speakers of national and international reputation. The plan includes promotion of effective mentoring, emphasis on professional- scientific development, and tracking of the trainees during and after program completion on multiple dimensions to evaluate the program. This training program is designed to build capacity with respect to behavioral scientists well versed in biomedical sciences to more effectively contribute to research aimed at understanding and preventing significant health disorders and conditions, and at promoting positive health outcomes throughout the lifespan.