Training Grant in Academic Nutrition

说明（由申请人提供）：学术营养培训补助金汇集了哈佛大学公共卫生学院和哈佛医学院的智力和体力资源，促进了受训者与教师之间的密切互动，其中包括31名导师和8名资源教师。首席研究员Walter Willett博士和联合首席研究员W Allan Walker博士已经建立了强大而充满活力的博士前和博士后项目，我们现在正在寻求扩大一个额外的博士前名额。该培训计划成功招募了一批优秀的申请人，其中包括许多具有智力潜力并致力于营养科学研究的医学博士。我们的课程提供四个关键领域的培训：营养生物化学、人类/临床营养学、营养流行病学和公共卫生营养学。我们的总体目标是将基础科学和应用科学的概念、方法和科学工具结合起来，使学员能够超越传统的专业界限。该培训计划既适用于最近完成本科学位并进入正式博士课程的个人，也适用于医生和其他博士课程的毕业生，他们将进入一个密集的研究培训计划，并有获得正式学位的选择。提供的学位是营养生物化学博士学位和营养流行病学或公共卫生营养学硕士学位。对于医学博士研究员，我们提供独特的临床研究硕士课程。无论如何，所有学位候选人都必须成功完成教学课程，包括基本的生物化学和分子概念以及定量科学的高级培训，包括流行病学和生物统计学。所有的受训者都要参加由各自领域“最前沿”的科学家指导的、由导师指导的、要求苛刻的“动手”营养科学研究。这个项目的毕业生已经建立了良好的出版记录和成功获得资助。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Training Grant in Academic Nutrition brings together the intellectual and physical resources of the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, fostering close interactions between trainees and faculty, including 31 preceptors and 8 resource faculty. The Principal Investigator, Dr Walter Willett, and Co-Principal Investigator, Dr W Allan Walker, have established strong and vigorous pre- and postdoctoral programs that we are now seeking to expand with one additional predoctoral slot. The Training Program has successfully recruited an outstanding cadre of applicants including many MDs who demonstrate intellectual promise and dedicated commitment to nutritional science research. Our program provides training in four key areas: Nutritional Biochemistry, Human/Clinical Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, and Public Health Nutrition. Our overall goal is to incorporate concepts, approaches, and scientific tools from both basic and applied science so that trainees are able to transcend conventional specialty boundaries. This Training Program is designed both for individuals who have recently completed their undergraduate degree and are entering a formal doctoral program, and for physicians and graduates of other doctoral programs who will enter an intensive research training program with options to obtain formal degrees. The degrees offered are the PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry, and the DSc in Nutritional Epidemiology or Public Health Nutrition. For MD fellows, we offer a unique Masters Program in clinical investigation. Regardless of track, all degree candidates must successfully complete didactic coursework involving both basic biochemical and molecular concepts and advanced training in quantitative sciences, including epidemiology and biostatistics. All trainees participate in demanding "hands-on" preceptor-guided nutritional science research guided by scientists who are at the "cutting edge" of their fields. Graduates of this program have established a strong record of publication and success in obtaining grants.