Pre-doctoral training in Molecular Biology

描述(由申请人提供)：科罗拉多大学丹佛安舒茨医学院分子生物学课程的目标是培养优秀的研究科学家和院士，他们将成为所选领域和学科的未来领导者。为了实现这一目标，我们精心挑选了高素质的学生，这些学生具有良好的学业成绩，并表现出对研究的能力、承诺和热情。培训计划是灵活的，高度以学生为导向，以满足个人需求，但同时有严格的课程，设定高标准和非常好的组织。分子生物学是一个5-6年的课程，第一年致力于挑战性的课程工作和实验室轮换，第二年致力于研究假说的发展，其余几年在培训教师导师和论文委员会的指导下完成论文研究项目。为了进一步发展研究技能，课程的所有阶段的学生都会参加额外的项目具体活动，包括每周一次的研讨会系列、圆桌讨论、年度迷你课程和我们的静修。我们的课程非常强调发展批判性和创造性的独立思维、科学沟通技能和专业/负责任的行为。该计划的一个重要优势是其来自11个不同部门的杰出和高度互动的教师，他们深深地致力于研究生教育和该计划。最近新的初级和高级教员的加入增加了我们项目的多学科方面，与人类健康相关的研究更具代表性，在干细胞、人类病原体、免疫、发育、辐射生物学和蛋白质动力学等领域提供了新的培训机会。我们的计划和伞式招生计划的合作确保了大量、高质量和多样化的申请者和学生被录取。我们项目的培训成功体现在我们的学生获得了高质量的博士后、教师和行业职位。鉴于加强的招生计划和我们培养高素质学生的能力，我们要求将这项培训补助金支持的学生职位从每年5个增加到6个。相关性：美国生物医学和分子生物学研究的未来取决于高质量、充满激情的博士科学家的培训，他们已经学会了批判性和独立思考。我们的计划有力地促进了具有批判性思维、敬业的研究人员的发展，他们能够有效地沟通，并理解他们的研究对人类健康的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Molecular Biology Program at the University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus is to train outstanding research scientists and academicians who will become future leaders in their chosen fields and disciplines. To accomplish this goal we carefully select high quality students with strong academic records and a demonstrated aptitude, commitment and passion for research. The training program is flexible and highly student orientated to meet individual needs, but at the same time has a rigorous curriculum, sets high standards and is very well organized. Molecular Biology is designed as a 5-6 year program with the first year devoted to challenging course work and laboratory rotations, the second year to the development of a research hypothesis, and the remaining years to completion of the thesis research project under the guidance of a training faculty mentor and thesis committee. To further develop research skills, students at all stages of the curriculum participate in additional program specific activities including a weekly seminar series, roundtable discussions, the annual mini-courses and our retreat. Our curriculum strongly emphasizes the development of critical and creative independent thinking, scientific communication skills, and professional/responsible conduct. A significant strength of the program is its outstanding and highly interactive faculty from 11 different departments who are deeply committed to graduate education and to the Program. The recent infusion of new junior and senior faculty has increased the multi-disciplinary aspects of our program, with a greater representation of research with human health relevance, providing new training opportunities in areas such as stem cells, human pathogens, immunity, development, radiation biology, and protein dynamics. Cooperation between our Program and the umbrella recruitment has ensured large, high quality and diverse applicant pools and students admitted. The training success of our program is evident in the high quality postdoctoral, faculty and industry positions obtained by our students. Given the strengthened recruitment programs and our demonstrated ability to train high quality students, we are requesting an increase in student positions to be supported by this training grant from 5 to 6/yr. RELEVANCE: The future of biomedical and molecular biological research in the U.S. is dependent on the training of high quality, passionate PhD scientists who have learned to think critically and independently. Our program strongly fosters the development of critically minded, dedicated researchers who can communicate effectively and who appreciate the human health implications of their studies.