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)：一个研究培训计划被提出，以提供在听觉和前庭研究方面的经验给那些在临床基础上的听力学学位(8月)注册的博士前学生。范德比尔特大学和其他机构的课程。长期目标是培养从事听力研究事业的兴趣。这一目标解决了目前越来越多的有背景和对听力学感兴趣的学生寻求听力科学研究事业的问题。要求为6名博士前(8月)提供短期全日制研究支持。在五年助学金的每一年中，每年为学生提供助学金。受训人员将有机会在范德比尔特大学听力和言语科学系的13名教官的研究实验室获得研究经验。每个受训人员将主要在一个实验室从事一个特定的项目， 但也将有机会通过访问实验室、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。受训者将作为一个小组定期会面，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。Vanderbilt实验室的研究领域涵盖动物和人类对象的基础科学和翻译研究，主题包括发育和衰老中的耳蜗学和神经生理学、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、噪音中的语音识别、人工耳蜗植入、前庭功能、人类和动物模型的听觉神经和多感觉皮质功能，以及口吃的皮质功能。全日制研究实习生将允许学生体验发展研究性学习、收集和分析数据以及在非正式和正式环境中展示他们的研究结果的各个方面。拟议的实习生计划的优势是范德比尔特Au.D.计划在学术界的地位，学生的高水平，在Vanderbilt Au.D.计划和Au.D.学生背景下授课并熟悉该计划的导师，各种研究计划，以及通过活动最大限度地发挥NIH-NIDCD支持的研究培训的好处，展示了教职员工和机构的承诺。研究环境非常好，拥有最先进的实验室和许多跨学科的合作。学员将完成他们的短期经验，提交他们的研究报告，在一个强调科学的全国会议上发表，并参与研究成果的出版。具有临床背景并发展研究技能和职业生涯的研究人员非常适合识别和解决公共卫生问题。拟议的课程将为临床听力学培训的学生提供有针对性的研究经验，目的是培养学生对从事听力和/或前庭科学研究事业的兴趣。这将使社会受益，因为它将确保与听力健康相关的研究有一个强劲的未来。 与公共卫生相关：具有临床背景并发展研究技能和职业的研究人员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有针对性的研究经验，目标是培养学生对从事专注于听力和/或平衡的研究职业的兴趣。这将使社会受益，因为它将确保与听力健康相关的研究有一个强劲的未来。