Training Grant in Academic Nutrition

描述(申请人提供)：学术营养培训助学金汇集了哈佛公共卫生学院和哈佛医学院的智力和体力资源，促进了学员和教职员工之间的密切互动，包括31名讲师和8名辅导员。首席研究员沃尔特·威利特博士和联合首席研究员W·艾伦·沃克博士已经建立了强有力的博士后和博士后项目，我们现在正在寻求通过增加一个博士后名额来扩大这些项目。该培训计划已经成功地招募了一批优秀的申请者干部，其中包括许多对营养科学研究表现出智力潜力和献身精神的博士。我们的计划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。我们的总体目标是融合基础科学和应用科学的概念、方法和科学工具，使受训者能够超越传统的专业界限。这一培训计划既是为最近完成本科学位并进入正式博士课程的个人设计的，也是为将进入密集研究培训计划并可选择获得正式学位的医生和其他博士课程的毕业生设计的。提供的学位包括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博士学位。对于医学博士研究生，我们提供独特的临床研究硕士课程。无论走哪条路，所有学位候选人都必须成功完成涉及基本生化和分子概念的教学课程，以及定量科学方面的高级培训，包括流行病学和生物统计学。所有受训人员都参加要求苛刻的、由导师指导的营养科学研究，这些研究由处于各自领域前沿的科学家指导。该项目的毕业生已经建立了良好的出版和成功获得资助的记录。

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.