Forsyth Postdoctoral Training in Oral Health Research

描述（由申请人提供）：博士后培训是福赛斯研究所的主要机构优势。在我们的T32博士后培训计划的NRSA支持的更新中，我们将通过从（a）牙医，有或没有博士，寻求获得合作，多学科研究培训的人才库中培养一批忠诚，训练有素和有竞争力的研究人员，（基础、转化或临床）适用于口腔和颅面疾病，条件和疾病和（B）博士谁希望在口腔健康研究，将利用最新的科学和合作策略的发展事业。学员将在生物矿化，牙周病学，免疫学，分子遗传学，细胞因子生物学和发展与再生生物学中心，临床和转化生物学中心以及应用分子光医学实验室的20名资金充足和出版导师中找到主要研究家园。为了强调协作和多学科方法，学员将与三个重点领域（结构生物学/生物矿化;宿主生物膜界面，临床和转化研究）中的一个（或多个）更紧密地联系在一起。该计划将由一个指导委员会指导，由丹尼尔史密斯博士（项目主任）和托马斯货车戴克博士（项目联合主任）领导。外部审查将由Jeffrey Ebersole博士（肯塔基州大学）和Robert Quivey博士（罗切斯特大学）组成的外部咨询委员会提供。博士后培训计划将为七名学员提供三年的指导研究支持。虽然重点放在研究部分，学员将有一些选修和非选修的机会，除了他们的板凳/临床研究部分。这些机会将根据个人的需求和方案量身定制。所有学员的课程都将包括奖学金、助学金写作技巧、成功的教学和演示以及科学研究的完整性。将有机会指导新兴的高中和牙科学生科学家。计划实施一个系统的方案，审查受训者的进展情况，以及非正式和正式的受训者反馈（当前和培训后）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Postdoctoral training is a major institutional strength at the Forsyth Institute. In this NRSA-supported renewal of our T32 postdoctoral training program, we will build on that strength by developing a diverse group of committed, highly trained and competitive investigators from a pool of (a) dentists, with or without the PhD, who seek to obtain collaborative, multidisciplinary research training (basic, translational, or clinical) applicable to oral and craniofacial diseases, conditions and disorders and (b) PhD's who desire to develop careers in oral health research that will take advantage of the most current scientific and collaborative strategies. Trainees will find principal research homes with one of 20 well-funded and published mentors in Departments of Biomineralization, Periodontology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics, Cytokine Biology and the Center of Development and Regenerative Biology, Center for Clinical and Translational Biology, and the Laboratory of Applied Molecular Photomedicine. To emphasize collaborative and multidisciplinary approaches, trainees will be more strongly associated with one (or more) of three Focus Areas (Structural Biology/Biomineralization; Host-Biofilm Interface, and Clinical and Translational Research). The program will be guided by a Steering Committee, led by Dr. Daniel Smith (Program Director) and Dr. Thomas Van Dyke (Program Co-Director). External review will be provided by an External Advisory Committee of Drs. Jeffrey Ebersole (University of Kentucky) and Robert Quivey (University of Rochester). The postdoctoral training program will provide support for seven trainees with three years each of mentored research. Although strong emphasis is placed on the research component, trainees will have a number of elective and non-elective opportunities apart from their bench/clinical research component. These opportunities will be tailored to the individual's needs and programs. Tutorials and seminars in grantsmanship, grant writing skills, successful teaching and presentation, and integrity in scientific research will be part of all trainees' programs. There will be opportunities for mentoring emerging high school and dental student scientists. A systematic program of application to the program and review of trainees' progress is planned, as is informal and formal trainee feedback (current and post-program).