K12 Career Development Program: Omics of Pediatric Lung Diseases in DC

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议在乔治华盛顿大学医学与健康科学学院（GW）综合系统生物学（ISB）系的基础上建立儿科肺部疾病组学的K12职业发展计划，并与华盛顿特区儿童国家医学中心（CNMC）的遗传医学研究中心（GenMed）完全相称（ISB/GenMed）（见www.gwumc.edu/isbweb）。组学是研究健康和疾病生物学的系统生物学方法，也是“个性化医学”出现的潜在支柱。提供肺部疾病组学的职业发展支持对医生/科学家和博士科学家来说都是及时和非常重要的。一个基本的问题是，利用多层次组学数据源的系统生物学方法是非常多学科的，需要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a K12 Career Development Program on Omics of Pediatric Lung Diseases DC based within the Department of Integrative Systems Biology (ISB), George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GW), and fully commensurate with the Center for Genetic Medicine Research (GenMed) at Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington DC (ISB/GenMed) (see www.gwumc.edu/isbweb). Omics is a systems biology approach to biology in health and disease, and an underlying lynch pin for the emergence of 'personalized medicine'. Providing career development support in omics of lung diseases is timely and highly important for both physician/scientists and PhD scientists A fundamental problem is that systems biology approaches utilizing multi-level omics data sources are exceptionally multi-disciplinary, requiring the lung researcher to have working expertise in many areas of academic endeavor that were, previously, considered distinct (aka 'siloed'). The key challenge for K12 omics career development programs is to break down traditional siloes in academic medicine, providing a large research tool box to the Scholar that ranges from epigenomics, to bioinformatics of next-generation sequence data, to phenotype/environment interactions. Our K12 program responds to this need by providing time for Scholars to: 1) take coursework in omics and systems biology relevant to their research; 2) learn state-of-the art laboratory methodology in genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics; 3) develop preliminary data under the supervision of a Lead Mentor and Mentoring Team that will lead to submission of an independent NIH grant application; and 4) learn to effectively translate their accomplishments to the improvement of pediatric lung diseases. In order to accomplish their goals the K12 Scholars will spend at least 75% effort honing these skills over a 1-3 year period of time, depending on past experience and topic area. During this period each of the above goals is addressed in a systematic fashion including participation in a core curriculum in research methodology and biostatistics and performance of increasingly independent research in the laboratory of a Lead Mentor. Our proposed K12 program draws 11 Lead Mentors and 16 secondary Mentors from the ISB/GenMed roster who will function as a Mentoring Team in four Affinity areas: Genetics and Genomics; Proteomics; Bioinformatics, and Clinical and Pre-Clinical Phenotyping. The administrative structure of the K12 includes two Co-Principal Investigators with complementary expertise in omics and lung biology/diseases who will serve as Program Director and Career Development Director, respectively, a Director of Minority Recruitment, and internal and external advisory committees. We propose to select and train a total of 2-4 K12 Scholars during a 5 year grant period.