UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in BIoengineering

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案旨在确保培训补助金津贴和相关的支持学生在头两年在UCSF/UCB联合研究生组在生物工程（JBBG）。在过去的25年里，JBBG已经向221名学生颁发了生物工程博士学位，其中86名学生获得了NIH培训补助金。这种津贴是独特的JGGB结构的支柱，它要求学生在头两年获得财政支持。这最初两年的准备包括工程和生物医学科学的密集课程工作，以及三个实验室轮换，对于学生选择适当的论文研究课题至关重要。在以后的一年里，学生通过他们的研究导师获得财政支持。JGGB连接了两个具有互补优势的加州大学校园：UCSF是领先的健康科学机构，加州大学伯克利分校的工程学院是物理科学的全国领导者。提供给学生的培训环境的广度和深度是一个比一个部门可以提供更大的订单。25个系的170多名教师参加了JGGB。他们的实验室包括一系列最先进的设施。学术和智力环境促进物理和生命科学之间的无缝互动，并培养学生解决复杂的生物学问题，重点是转化研究，这是很有必要的。JGGB已经建立了这种整合的记录，合作机会的广度是该计划的结构，让学生花两年时间专注于各种实验室轮换和课程工作的原因之一，然后再致力于他们的论文项目。随着UCSF和UCB生物工程研究和教育计划的扩大，培养研究生的能力有所增加，学生人数从148人增加到173人。这种培训补助金是向学生提供的一揽子支助的一个关键组成部分，因此，它对确保学生在目前的竞争环境中茁壮成长变得越来越重要。由于合格的申请人远远超过了可以进入JGGB的学生人数，我们要求在下一个资助周期将名额从目前建议的17名学生增加到25名。生物工程师整合不同领域原理的独特能力，从而跨越基础科学进步和临床应用之间的差距，使在这一领域受过培训的个人处于推进转化研究议程的关键点，这一议程最近被NIH内的新组织所强调。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal aims to secure training grant stipends and associated support for students during their first two years in the UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering (JBBG). Over the past 25 years, the JBBG has awarded Ph.D.s in Bioengineering to 221 students, with 86 of these receiving stipends from this NIH Training Grant Award. Such stipends are the backbone for the unique JGGB structure, which requires that students have financial support during their first two years. These initial two years of preparation include intensive course work in engineering and the biomedical sciences, as well as three laboratory rotations, are essential to the students in selecting appropriate dissertation research topics. In later year the students receive financial support through their research mentor. The JGGB bridges two University of California campuses that possess complementary strengths: UCSF is a leading Health Sciences institution and UC Berkeley's Engineering School is a national leader in the physical sciences. The breadth and depth of the training environment offered to students is of an order larger than a single department could provide. Over 170 faculty based in 25 departments participate in the JGGB. Their laboratories include an array of state-of-the art facilities. An academic and intellectual environment fosters seamless interaction between physical and life sciences and that trains students to solve complex biological problems with an emphasis on translational research is in high demand. The JGGB has an established record of such integration, and the breadth of opportunity for collaboration is one of the reasons that the program is structured to have students spend two years concentrating on a variety of laboratory rotations and course work prior to committing to their dissertation project. With the recent expansion of Bioengineering research and educational programs at UCSF and UCB, the capacity for training graduate students has increased and the size of the student body has grown from 148 to 173. This training grant is a critical component of the support package that students are offered, and it has therefore become increasingly important for ensuring that they flourish in the present competitive environment. Because qualified applicants far exceed the number of students that can be admitted into the JGGB, we are requesting an increase in the number of slots during the next funding cycle from the current recommended level of 17 to 25 students. The unique ability for bioengineers to integrate principles from diverse fields and thereby span the gap between advances in basic science and clinical utilization places individuals trained in this field at a critical point in advancing a translational research agenda that has been recently highlighted by new organizations within the NIH.