Harvard Systems Biology Graduate Program

哈佛系统生物学研究生项目

• 批准号: 8793892
• 负责人: Timothy J Mitchison
• 金额: $ 27.37万
• 依托单位: HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8793892
• 关键词: Systems Biology; programs

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests expanded support for a pioneering predoctoral training program in systems biology. The Harvard Ph.D. Program in Systems Biology attracts unusually adventurous and analytically confident graduate students, with a demonstrated determination to cross disciplines. Our central goal is to help these students identify biological questions to which an interdisciplinary approach can provide uniquely satisfying answers, and to prepare them to identify and address such questions independently in their future careers. The Program draws on the intellectual and practical resources of the entire Harvard scientific community to help students develop a broad, rigorous and creative approach to solving challenging problems in biology and medicine. A two-part Preliminary Qualifying Exam is central to our approach. Part 1 requires the student to propose a quantitative, computational, or theoretical approach to solving a biological problem. This tests the student's ability to conceive, articulate, and exercise quantitative and theoretical ideas and methods as applied to questions in biology. This section of the exam demands creativity and thoughtful analysis of what theory and computation can offer, as well as general knowledge about biology. Part 2 evaluates the student's plan for dissertation research and understanding of experimental logic and methods. Our students enter the Program with a wide variety of backgrounds. Students may take any of a range of science courses offered by Harvard or MIT (through cross-registration). The first year student faculty advisors work with entering students individually to help them determine which courses will best complement their existing training, and to help them to identify potential rotation labs. Five courses on different aspects of systems biology are offered by Program faculty. In addition all students are required to take a course on communication that culminates in writing a fellowship proposal, and a course on biomedical research ethics. Our program aims to educate students in the current state of the art in systems biology, and to encourage them to reach higher, expanding the use of systems biology approaches in biology and medicine. Our students have published many high-quality papers on systems ranging from bacterial pathogens to humans. An average student graduating from the program will have published 3.5 papers, of which 2 are first-author papers. We believe that the students we attract and the mentoring that we give them are both outstanding, and that we have the ability to recruit additional exciting students into the Program who could benefit greatly from the opportunities we can offer them. We are therefore requesting an increase from 6 training slots to 8 for this funding cycle. Students will be funded in their first and second year of graduae studies.

 描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求扩大对系统生物学领域开创性博士前培训计划的支持。哈佛大学博士系统生物学项目吸引了异常富有冒险精神和分析自信的研究生，他们表现出跨学科的决心。我们的中心目标是帮助这些学生识别生物学问题，跨学科方法可以提供独特的令人满意的答案，并让他们做好准备在未来的职业生涯中独立识别和解决这些问题。该项目利用整个哈佛科学界的智力和实践资源，帮助学生开发一种广泛、严格和创造性的方法来解决生物学和医学领域的挑战性问题。分为两部分的初步资格考试是我们方法的核心。第 1 部分要求学生提出解决生物学问题的定量、计算或理论方法。这测试了学生构思、表达和练习应用于生物学问题的定量和理论思想和方法的能力。考试的这一部分要求对理论和计算可以提供的内容进行创造性和深思熟虑的分析，以及生物学的常识。第 2 部分评估学生的论文研究计划以及对实验逻辑和方法的理解。我们的学生具有各种各样的背景。学生可以选修哈佛大学或麻省理工学院提供的一系列科学课程（通过交叉注册）。第一年的学生教师顾问与新生一起工作，帮助他们确定哪些课程最能补充他们现有的培训，并帮助他们确定潜在的轮换实验室。项目教师提供了关于系统生物学不同方面的五门课程。此外，所有学生都必须参加一门沟通课程，最终撰写一份奖学金申请书，以及一门生物医学研究伦理课程。我们的项目旨在教育学生了解系统生物学的最新技术，并鼓励他们达到更高的水平，扩大系统生物学方法在生物学和医学中的应用。我们的学生发表了许多关于从细菌病原体到人类系统的高质量论文。该项目毕业的学生平均发表论文3.5篇，其中第一作者论文2篇。我们相信，我们吸引的学生和我们为他们提供的指导都是出色的，并且我们有能力招募更多令人兴奋的学生加入该计划，他们可以从中受益匪浅 我们可以为他们提供的机会。因此，我们请求将本资助周期的培训名额从 6 个增加到 8 个。学生将在研究生第一年和第二年获得资助。