Interdisciplinary Training Program in Hearing Research

描述（由申请人提供）：理解听力机制和治疗听力障碍的进展需要听力研究领域内多个学科的综合努力。加州尔湾大学（UCI）的听力研究中心（Center for Hearing Research，简称CERI）将开展一项跨学科培训计划，该计划将利用UCI听力研究的广度和深度，培养跨多个学科的新科学家，以及深入其中的一个学科。18个培训教师横跨五个学院（生物科学，工程，医学，物理科学和社会科学）的九个部门，研究兴趣涵盖广泛的层次（基因，分子，细胞，系统，行为）和实验方法（细胞和分子生物学，神经生理学，心理声学，计算，人类成像）。因此，联合国大学有能力提供跨学科的培训。我们请求支持四名博士前学生和四名博士后研究人员，包括耳鼻喉科和神经病学的住院医师。培训计划的教学核心是听觉神经科学课程，涵盖了从细胞到心理声学，从耳蜗到皮层的听觉系统，以及基础和临床方面。鼓励跨学科互动的培训计划的强制性特征是参与学术研究活动（学术研究中心的任务是促进跨学科研究），要求研究自己以外的学科，以及基础和临床科学家之间的定期会议。对博士前和博士后学员的正常支助期为两年（住院医生为一年）。博士前学员通常在研究生学习的第二年进入该计划，并要求参加一门关于赠款写作的课程，并提交NRSA提案以成功完成该计划。该项目由项目主任和执行委员会管理，将培养学员在跨学科听力研究领域追求成功职业所需的智力、技术和专业技能。 公共卫生相关性：为了充分了解我们的听力，并设计有效的听力缺陷治疗方法，需要多个学科的知识，如生物学，医学和工程学。该计划将培养初级科学家成为一个学科的专家，并熟悉几个学科，以便他们能够将多个学科的工具和技术集中在要解决的问题上。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Progress towards understanding mechanisms of hearing, and the treatment of hearing deficits, requires an integrated effort from multiple disciplines within the field of hearing research. The Center for Hearing Research (CHR) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) will mount an interdisciplinary training program that will take advantage of the breadth and depth of hearing research at UCI to train new scientists broadly across multiple disciplines, as well as deeply in one. The 18 training faculty in CHR span nine departments in five Schools (Biological Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences) with research interests that cover a broad range of levels (genes, molecules, cells, systems, behavior) and experimental approaches (cellular and molecular biology, neurophysiology, psychoacoustics, computation, human imaging). Thus, CHR is well-positioned to offer interdisciplinary training. We request support for four predoctoral students and four postdoctoral researchers including medical residents from Otolaryngology and Neurology. The didactic core of the training program is a course in Auditory Neuroscience, which covers the auditory system from cells to psychoacoustics, the cochlea to the cortex, and both basic and clinical aspects. Mandatory features of the training program that encourage interdisciplinary interactions are participation in CHR activities (CHR's mandate is to promote interdisciplinary research), required study of a discipline outside one's own, and regular meetings among basic and clinical scientists. The normal period of support is two years for both pre- and post-doctoral trainees (one year for residents). Predoctoral trainees normally enter the program in their second year of graduate study, and are required to take a course on grant writing and submit an NRSA proposal to successfully complete the program. The program is managed by the Program Director and an Executive Committee, and will foster trainees' intellectual, technical and professional skills needed to pursue successful careers in interdisciplinary hearing research. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: To fully understand how we hear, and design effective treatments for hearing deficits, requires knowledge of multiple disciplines, such as biology, medicine and engineering. This program will train junior scientists to be experts in one discipline and familiar with several, so that they are able to focus the tools and techniques of multiple disciplines on the problems to be solved.