Yale Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Training Grant for Diabetes Research

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议发展一个跨学科的培训项目，以培养生物工程师成为糖尿病领域的独立研究人员。该计划的长期目标是促进与糖尿病相关的跨学科研究的生物医学工程师的职业发展。该项目将以耶鲁大学在培养生物医学工程师方面的丰富经验为基础，并将与世界领先的糖尿病研究项目相结合。该申请要求每年5名博士后（医学博士，博士或医学博士/博士）研究员的博士后津贴。这一要求基于以下几个因素：1)对致力于研究糖尿病的生物工程科学家的持续迫切需求。2)我们的跨学科培训师资提供了更多的机会。3)具有工程背景的住院医师数量增加。4)高质量的生物医学工程师申请耶鲁博士后项目。我们在跨学科培训方面的经验表明，研究员需要三年或三年以上的研究培训来培养独立研究所需的技能。我们相信，一个专门致力于向工程师介绍糖尿病的前沿、跨学科研究的项目，将导致科学家的发展，他们准备在糖尿病领域建立有影响力的研究项目。该项目将有几个关键组成部分：(1)招募对糖尿病感兴趣的生物工程博士后。(2)为研究员匹配优秀的研究导师。(3)研究员与共同导师共同参与生物工程和糖尿病研究项目。(4)参与核心教学研究课程。(5)批判性和严格的学者和项目评估。(6)建立职业指导项目。在加入该项目期间，博士后将有80%的时间专门用于研究，并将提供3年的支持。这个项目的重点将放在生物工程培训上，

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose the development of an interdisciplinary training program to prepare bioengineers for careers as independent researchers in diabetes. The long-term goal of this program is to foster the career development of biomedical engineers in interdisciplinary research related to diabetes. This program will build on Yale's considerable experience in the training of biomedical engineers, which will be coupled with world-leading programs in diabetes research. This application requests postdoctoral stipends for five postdoctoral (MD, PhD, or MD/PhD) fellows per year. This request is based on several factors: 1) The ongoing critical need for bioengineering scientists dedicated to studying diabetes. 2) The expanded opportunities afforded by our interdisciplinary training faculty. 3) The increase in the number of medical residents with engineering backgrounds. 4) The high quality of biomedical engineers applying to Yale postdoctoral programs. Our experience in interdisciplinary training indicates that three or more years of research training are needed for fellows to develop the skills needed for independent research. We believe a program specifically dedicated to introducing engineers to cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research in diabetes will lead to the development of scientists ready to build impactful research programs in diabetes. This program will have several key components: (1) Recruitment of bioengineering postdoctoral fellows with interests in diabetes. (2) Matching fellows with superb research mentors. (3) Participation of fellows in research projects with co-mentors in bioengineering and diabetes research. (4) Participation in a core didactic research curriculum. (5) Critical and rigorous scholar and program evaluation. (6) Establishment of a career guidance program. While enrolled in the program, postdoctoral fellows will have 80% of their time specifically dedicated to research, and support will be provided for 3 years. The focus of this program will be on bioengineering training, which has been identified as an area where diabetes scientists are greatly needed. To achieve these goals, we will take advantage of several established programs at Yale specifically designed for training in diabetes. Potential mentors have good NIH support and a proven record of training fellows in diabetes or biomedical engineering. Please see the required T32-related supporting tables. Table 1 lists participating departments; Table 2 lists mentors and rank; Table 3 lists mentor department training programs; Table 4 lists mentor grant support; Table 5 lists mentor trainees over the past 10 years; Table 8 lists post- doctoral applicants for fellowships over the past 5 years. It is anticipated that this program will lead to the training of exceptional bioengineers, who will embark on promising careers focusing on interdisciplinary diabetes research.