Biomedical-Behavioral Interface: Prevention and Developmental Sciences Training

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训补助金的续期重点是继续支持一个跨学科研究培训项目，该项目将行为科学和生物医学科学结合起来，并强调广泛定义的预防和发展科学的交叉主题。博士前培训项目被称为行为-生物医学接口项目（BBIP），通过NIGMS“行为和生物医学科学接口”倡议（PAR-06-503）获得培训资助支持。BBIP从三个与行为科学密切相关的部门招收学员：流行病学、运动科学和心理学。许多行为科学教师的导师正在从事与预防科学、发展科学（从寿命角度广泛考虑）或两者相关的健康相关研究问题，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，他们带来了广泛的学科，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项目，让学生感受到联系，并有足够的机会和场所与跨部门的许多项目教师和学生进行互动。所有BBIP学员都要完成遗传学，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界面的综合研讨会的课程，同时还要完成他们的学科课程要求。三个实验室轮转使受训者接触到各种研究方法和观点。学员和教师将参加反映前沿行为生物医学界面的研讨会，并有机会与国内和国际知名的受邀演讲者进行互动。该计划包括促进有效的指导，强调专业科学发展，并从多个维度跟踪学员在项目完成期间和之后，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失调和状况的研究作出贡献，并在整个生命周期中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.