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）：研究培训计划旨在为在范德比尔特大学和其他机构注册临床听力学学位（aud）课程的博士生提供听觉和前庭研究经验。长期目标是培养对从事听力研究的兴趣。这一目标解决了目前对听力学背景和兴趣的学生从事听力科学研究的人数减少的问题。在5年的资助期内，每年有6名博士预科（Au.D）学生获得短期全职研究支持。受训者将有机会在范德比尔特大学听力和语言科学系的13位导师的研究实验室中获得研究经验。每个实习生将主要在一个实验室从事一个特定的项目，