The Childrens Nutrition Research Center Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：儿童营养研究中心培训计划的目标是为医学博士和博士研究员提供教学结构和指导，这些研究员致力于在怀孕，哺乳期，婴儿期到青春期的营养广泛领域的学术事业，包括从基础，转化和临床研究到循证医学的范围。该项目将提供重点和纪律，以发展一个优秀的培训计划，不仅是由该基金支持的博士后研究员，也包括从事我们研究事业的CNRC研究员。我们的优势在于中国核研究中心的智力和物力资源。CNRC是最大的独立中心，其主要任务是儿科营养。它拥有68名教职员工，专注于广泛的营养研究，从饮食需求和代谢的分子调节到营养状况的表观遗传结果。此外，贝勒医学院和全国最大的儿科部门之一提供成熟的、同行评审资助的研究人员，他们具有广泛的学科专业知识和指导记录，以及优秀的研究资源、项目和设施。培训计划将：1)促进受训者个人教学和研究培训计划的发展，2)提供津贴以保护计划的时间，3)提供明确的课程和广泛的教育机会，4)确保积极，成功和持续的导师匹配，5)提供CNRC和BCM的资源以促进受训者的研究活动。该计划有20名活跃和成功的临床和基础科学研究者作为导师。现有的大型研讨会、系列研讨会、期刊俱乐部和其他学习机会将为该计划的教学核心提供框架。在过去的15年里，我们成功地使用这种方法指导了K12儿童健康研究中心资助的儿科教师的研究培训，培养了66名医师调查员的职业发展，其中82%的人仍然留在学术医学领域，这反映了我们对培训年轻科学家的承诺。T32的资金将有助于维持我们的培训计划，培养聪明而积极的营养科学家，他们将有助于改善当前和下一代儿童的健康和护理。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the Children's Nutrition Research Center Training Program is to provide the didactic structure and mentoring for M.D. and Ph.D. fellows who are committed to academic careers in the broad area of nutrition during pregnancy, lactation, and infancy through adolescence, which includes the spectrum from basic, translational and clinical research to evidence-based medicine. This program will provide the focus and discipline to develop an outstanding training program for not only the postdoctoral fellows supported by this grant but also the rest of the CNRC fellows who are engaged in our research enterprise. Our strength lies in the intellectual and physical resources available in the CNRC. The CNRC is the largest free-standing center whose primary mission is pediatric nutrition. It has a faculty of 68 individuals focused on a broad spectrum of nutritional research from dietary requirements and molecular regulation of metabolism, to epigenetic outcomes of nutritional conditions. In addition, Baylor College of Medicine and one of the largest Departments of Pediatrics in the country provide established, peer-review funded investigators with broad disciplinary expertise and a track record of mentoring, and excellent research resources, programs and facilities. The training plan will: 1) facilitate the development of the trainees' individual didactic and research training programs, 2) provide stipends to protect time for the program, 3) provide a well-defined curriculum and broad education opportunities, 4) ensure positive, successful and sustained mentor matches, and 5) make available the resources of the CNRC and BCM to facilitate trainees' research activities. The proposed program has 20 active and successful clinical and basic science investigators as mentors. The existing grand rounds, seminar series, journal club and other learning opportunities will provide the framework for the didactic core of the program. Over the last 15 years we have successfully used this approach to mentored research training for the pediatric faculty in the K12 Child Health Research Center grant, which has fostered the career development of 66 physician investigators, 82% of whom remain in academic medicine, and reflects our commitment to the training of young scientists. The funding of this T32 will help sustain our training program for bright and motivated nutritional scientists who will be instrumental in improving the health and care of the current and next generation of children.