Translational Research Skills Development Core (TRSDC): Training Future Generati

传统的研究生和医学课程为研究人员提供特定于项目的背景、培训和科学专业知识，但它们未能为学生提供成功将基础科学发现转化为临床结果所需的知识广度和跨学科理解。在这些项目中接受培训的翻译调查人员历来通过从事“团队科学”来汇集翻译项目所需的科学专业知识，从而克服了这一点。在生物医学科学研究不断变化的趋势的启发下，为了鼓励年轻教师参与翻译团队项目，美国国立卫生研究院修订了教师终身制标准，承认团队的重要性和贡献。 2006年的《科学》。尽管有这样的适应，但许多个别机构在采纳这些政策方面进展缓慢，因此年轻教员往往存在冲突，原因是团队科学的成功标准与传统学术终身教职职业道路上评估他们的标准之间存在矛盾。 让事情变得更复杂的是，最近的美国劳工统计数据显示，尽管生物医学领域在过去10年中获得的博士数量翻了一番，但基于终身教职的教师职位数量保持不变。最近基于行业的药物发现部门的裁员以及联邦和州资金的减少进一步加剧了这一令人担忧的趋势。不可避免的是，简单的供需规律使获得和维持终身教职职位变得更具竞争力(也更难)。 这些矛盾和压力的顶峰正在对学术环境中的翻译研究产生负面影响。DTMI-CTHD相信，这里描述的广谱培训将更好地培养翻译科学家在当前市场上竞争，培养成功的学术研究生涯，并最终允许参与者促进翻译研究，并以各种身份为翻译研究社区做出贡献。

Traditional graduate and medical programs provide researchers with program-specific background, training, and scientific expertise, but they fail to provide students with the breadth of knowledge and interdisciplinary understanding required to successfully translate basic science discoveries into clinical outcomes. Translational investigators trained within these programs have historically overcome this by engaging in "team science" to assemble the scientific expertise needed for a translational project. Inspired by changing trends in the conduct of biomedical science research, and in efforts to encourage young faculty to participate in translational team projects, the NIH revised its criteria for faculty tenure to acknowledge the importance and contributions of team science in 2006. Despite this adaptation, many individual institutions have been slow to adopt these policies and thus young faculty are often conflicted due to contradictions between the metrics of success in team science and those by which they are evaluated in the traditional academic tenure career path. To complicate the matter, recent U.S. labor statistics indicate that while the number of PhDs granted over the past 10 years has doubled in the biomedical fields, the number of tenure-based faculty positions has remained constant. This concerning trend is further exacerbated by recent layoffs in industry-based drug discovery departments and decreases in federal and state funding. Inevitably, the simple laws of supply and demand are making it more competitive (and difficult) to secure and maintain academic tenure positions. The culmination of these contradictions and pressures is negatively impacting translational research in the academic environment. The DTMI-CTHD believes that the broad spectrum training delineated herein would better prepare translational scientists to compete in the current market, foster successful academic research careers, and ultimately allow participants to facilitate translational research and contribute to the translational research community in a variety of capacities.