Developing Research Careers in the Hearing Sciences

发展听力科学研究事业

• 批准号: 8266589
• 负责人: LINDA J. HOOD
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8266589
• 关键词: Address; Aging; Animal Model; Animals; Area; Audiology; Auditory; Basic Science; Caliber; Childhood; Clinical; Cochlear Implants; Communities; Data Analyses; Development; Educational process of instructing; Enrollment; Environment; Faculty; Future; Goals; Grant; Health; Hearing; Human; Inherited; Institution; Instruction; Journals; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Motion Perception; National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders; Noise; Physiology; Public Health; Publications; Research; Research Personnel; Research Support; Research Training; Science; Societies; Speech; Students; Stuttering; Time; Traineeship; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Visit; Work; base; career; experience; hearing impairment; human subject; interdisciplinary collaboration; interest; lectures; meetings; multisensory; pre-doctoral; programs; relating to nervous system; research study; skills; speech recognition

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Research Training Program is proposed to provide experience in auditory and vestibular research to predoctoral students who are enrolled in clinically based audiology degree (Au.D.) programs at Vanderbilt University and other institutions. The long-term goal is to develop interest in pursuing a career in hearing research. This objective addresses current concern about decreasing numbers of students with background and interest in audiology pursuing research careers in hearing science. Short-term full-time research support is requested for six predoctoral (Au.D.) students per year for each of the five years of the grant. Trainees will have opportunities to obtain research experience in the research laboratories of thirteen preceptors in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt University. Each trainee will work primarily in one laboratory on a specific project, but will also have opportunities to learn about research in other research laboratories through visits to labs, journal meetings, lectures, and interaction with trainees and students in those labs. Trainees will meet regularly as a group to receive formal instruction related to responsible conduct in research and to discuss research experiences. Areas of research in the laboratories at Vanderbilt span basic science and translational research in animal and human subjects and address topics including cochlear and neural physiology in development and aging, hereditary hearing loss, spatial localization, motion perception, directional hearing and amplification, pediatric audiology, speech recognition in noise, cochlear implants, vestibular function, auditory neural and multisensory cortical function in humans and animal models, and cortical function in stuttering. The full-time research traineeship will allow a student to experience aspects of developing a research study, collecting and analyzing data, and presenting the results of their research in informal and formal environments. Strengths of the proposed traineeship program are the standing of the Vanderbilt Au.D. program in the academic community, the high caliber of the students, preceptors who teach in and are familiar with the Vanderbilt Au.D. program and background of Au.D. students, the variety of research programs, and the commitment of the faculty and institution demonstrated by activities to maximize the benefit of the NIH-NIDCD supported research training. The research environment is excellent with state-of-the-art laboratories and numerous interdisciplinary collaborations. Trainees will complete their short-term experience by submitting their research for presentation at a national meeting that emphasizes science and participating in publication of the research. Researchers with clinical backgrounds who develop research skills and careers are well suited to identify and solve public health problems. The proposed program will provide a focused research experience for students training in clinical audiology with the goal of developing interest in pursuing a research career i hearing and/or vestibular science. This will benefit society by insuring a strong future for research related to hearing health. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Researchers with clinical backgrounds who develop research skills and careers are well suited to identify and solve public health problems. The proposed short-term research training program will provide a focused research experience for clinical audiology students with the goal of developing interest in pursuing a research career focused on hearing and/or balance. This will benefit society by insuring a strong future for research related to hearing health.

描述（由申请人提供）：一个研究培训计划，建议提供在听觉和前庭研究的经验，谁是在临床基础的听力学学位（Au. D.）注册的博士前学生。在范德比尔特大学和其他机构的课程。长期目标是培养对听力研究事业的兴趣。这一目标解决了目前关注的听力学背景和兴趣的学生人数减少，追求听力科学的研究事业。短期全职研究支持要求六个predoctoral（Au.D.）学生每年的补助金的五年。学员将有机会在范德比尔特大学听力和言语科学系的十三位导师的研究实验室获得研究经验。每个受训者将主要在一个实验室从事一个特定项目， 但也将有机会通过参观实验室，期刊会议，讲座以及与这些实验室的学员和学生互动来了解其他研究实验室的研究。受训人员将作为一个小组定期开会，接受与负责任的研究行为有关的正式指导，并讨论研究经验。范德比尔特实验室的研究领域涵盖动物和人类受试者的基础科学和转化研究，并涉及以下主题：发育和衰老中的耳蜗和神经生理学，遗传性听力损失，空间定位，运动感知，定向听力和放大，儿科听力学，噪声中的语音识别，人工耳蜗植入，前庭功能，人类和动物模型中的听觉神经和多感觉皮质功能，以及口吃中的皮质功能。全职研究实习将允许学生体验开发研究，收集和分析数据，并在非正式和正式环境中展示其研究结果的各个方面。拟议中的培训计划的优势是范德比尔特澳大利亚国防部的地位。计划在学术界，高素质的学生，导师谁教，并熟悉范德比尔特澳大利亚。项目背景学生，研究项目的多样性，以及教师和机构的承诺，通过活动证明，以最大限度地发挥NIH-NIDCD支持的研究培训的好处。研究环境非常好，拥有最先进的实验室和众多跨学科合作。受训者将通过提交研究报告在一个强调科学的全国会议上发表和参与研究报告的出版来完成他们的短期经验。具有临床背景的研究人员，他们发展研究技能和职业，非常适合识别和解决公共卫生问题。该计划将为临床听力学培训的学生提供重点研究经验，目标是培养对听力和/或前庭科学研究事业的兴趣。这将通过确保与听力健康相关的研究的强大未来而造福社会。 公共卫生关系：具有临床背景的研究人员，他们发展研究技能和职业，非常适合识别和解决公共卫生问题。拟议的短期研究培训计划将为临床听力学学生提供重点研究经验，目标是培养他们对听力和/或平衡研究事业的兴趣。这将通过确保与听力健康相关的研究的强大未来而造福社会。