Training grant in Pharmacological Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：斯托尼布鲁克大学分子和细胞药理学研究生培训项目培养博士。学生在细胞和分子生物学的广泛领域的职业生涯在学术界，政府和工业。该计划是基于在纽约州立大学石溪分校医学院药理科学系，但有一个跨部门的教师，包括64名潜在的导师，其中35人来自其他大学部门或附近的冷泉港实验室和布鲁克海文国家实验室。学生在第一年学习生物化学，计算和细胞生物学，生理学和分子遗传学课程，第二年学习药理学和选修课程。课程包括神经药理学（包括信号转导），药物设计和DNA损伤，修复和致癌的高级课程。已招聘教员参加培训方案，以加强这些领域。培训环境包括一系列积极的研讨会和参加研究专题讨论会和小型课程。培训还包括药理学本科专业课程的经验教学。一年级学生参加三个实验室轮换，以准备他们在培训计划学院的任何实验室进行论文研究。培养博士119名。学生在其37年的历史，并有31名目前的学员。该方案中有7名代表性不足的少数民族学生和2名贫困学生，这证明了招收少数民族申请人的努力是成功的。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Graduate Training Program in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology at Stony Brook University trains Ph.D. students in the broad area of cell and molecular biology for careers in academia, government and industry. The Program is based in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences in the School of Medicine at SUNY-Stony Brook, but has an interdepartmental faculty including 64 potential mentors, 35 of whom are from other University Departments or the nearby Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratories. Students take courses in biochemistry, computational and cell biology, physiology and molecular genetics in the first year, with pharmacology and elective courses in the second year. The curriculum includes advanced courses in Neuropharmacology (including signal transduction), in Drug Design and DNA Damage, Repair and Carcinogenesis. Faculty members have been recruited to the Training Program to strengthen these areas. The training environment includes an active seminar series and participation in research symposia and minicourses. Training also involves experience teaching in courses offered to undergraduate majors in pharmacology. First year students participate in three laboratory rotations to prepare them to undertake dissertation research in any of the laboratories of the Training Program Faculty. The Training Program has trained 119 Ph.D. students in its 37-year history, and has 31 current trainees. The presence of seven underrepresented minority and 2 underprivileged students in the Program attests to a successful effort to recruit minority applicants.