Biomedical-Behavioral Interface: Prevention and Developmental Sciences Training

描述（由申请人提供）：该培训补助金更新的重点是继续支持跨学科研究培训计划，该计划将行为科学和生物医学科学相结合，并以跨领域主题强调广泛定义的预防和发展科学。博士前培训计划，这是所谓的行为生物医学接口程序（BBIP），通过NIGMS的“行为和生物医学科学的接口”倡议（PAR-06-503）获得培训补助金的支持。BBIP吸引了来自行为科学领域的三个单位的学员：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预防科学，发展科学（从寿命的角度广泛构思）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。提供跨学科培训的教师导师，实验室主持人和项目负责人带来了广泛的学科，如生物科学，流行病学，运动科学，家庭和预防医学，遗传学，老年医学，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，让学生感到相互联系，并有足够的机会和场所与跨部门的许多课程教师和学生进行互动。所有BBIP学员完成遗传学，内分泌学，神经生物学/神经科学课程，负责任的研究行为，定量方法，以及预防和发展科学生物医学和行为研究界面的综合研讨会，同时也完成了他们的学科课程要求。三个实验室轮换暴露学员各种研究方法和观点。学员和教师接触到反映尖端行为生物医学界面的研讨会，提供与国家和国际声誉的受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，并在方案完成期间和之后从多个方面跟踪受训人员，以评估方案。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，以更有效地促进旨在了解和预防重大健康疾病和状况的研究，并促进整个生命周期的积极健康成果。

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.