Training Grant on the Biology of Aging

衰老生物学培训补助金

• 批准号: 8842567
• 负责人: PETER J HORNSBY
• 金额: $ 68.06万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-05-01 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8842567
• 关键词: Biology of Aging; Grant; Training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program represents a 5-year continuation of an institutional training grant in the biology of aging, which was encompasses diverse investigators from 7 academic departments at UT Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA). We request funds to support 10 predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral trainees. The impending avalanche of elderly in the US combined with major recent advances in understanding fundamental mechanisms of aging has created a substantial demand for researchers trained to investigate means of delaying and relieving the ailments of an aging population. UTHSCSA is a premier research institution in the biology of aging, with the largest faculty in the country whose research is devoted primarily to the basic biology of aging. The primary goal of the proposed Training Program is to intellectually prepare both graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for careers as leaders in basic biological research in aging. The Training Program involves 26 faculty members (16 men, 10 women) and takes advantage of the synergies created by intensely collaborative personnel, the unique resources available from our Nathan Shock Center of Excellence in the Biology of Aging and the institutional commitment to, and expanding resources of, the Barshop Institute itself. Trainees will be chosen competitively based on academic excellence, their interest in aging research, and motivation for careers in research. The main activity of each trainee is the development of their faculty- supervised research project, which because of the extensive collaboration among our faculty tends to result surprisingly often in co-mentorships. Trainees have thrived with dual mentorships to the point that we have now institutionalized it as an obligatory feature of our training program Another key component is to require broad knowledge in the biology of aging acquired in our biology of aging course such that trainees' can place their research in an appropriate scientific context. In addition to this formal didactic training, we require trainees to attend the weekly Aging Research Journal Club and present at, as well as attend, our weekly Barshop Institute seminar series and annual trainee retreat. Training in grant writing skills resulting in an F- seris grant proposal for individual NRSAs are accomplished by all trainees within the first 18 months of entering our training program.

描述(由申请人提供)：建议的项目是衰老生物学机构培训拨款的5年延续，包括来自德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校健康科学中心(UTHSCSA)7个学术部门的不同研究人员。我们申请资助10名博士后和6名博士后学员。美国即将出现的老年人雪崩，加上最近在了解老龄化基本机制方面取得的重大进展，对研究人员产生了巨大的需求，这些研究人员接受过培训，研究延缓和缓解老龄化人口疾病的方法。UTHSCSA是一家顶尖的衰老生物学研究机构，拥有全国最大的教师队伍，其研究主要致力于衰老的基础生物学。拟议的培训计划的主要目标是为研究生和博士后研究员作为衰老基础生物学研究的领导者的职业生涯做好智力准备。该培训计划涉及26名教职员工(16名男性，10名女性)，并利用了高度协作的人员创造的协同效应、我们的内森老龄生物学卓越中心提供的独特资源，以及对Barshop Institute本身的机构承诺和不断扩大的资源。受训者将根据学术成就、他们对老龄化研究的兴趣以及对研究职业的动机进行竞争性选择。每个实习生的主要活动是开发他们在教职员工指导下的研究项目，由于我们教职员工之间的广泛合作，该项目往往会出人意料地经常产生共同指导的结果。学员在双重导师的指导下茁壮成长，以至于我们现在已经将其制度化，作为我们培训计划的一个强制性特征，另一个关键组成部分是要求在我们的衰老生物学课程中获得关于衰老生物学的广泛知识，以便学员能够将他们的研究置于适当的科学背景下。除了这种正式的教学培训外，我们还要求学员参加每周一次的老龄化研究期刊俱乐部，并出席我们每周一次的Barshop Institute系列研讨会和年度学员静修。所有受训者在参加我们的培训计划的前18个月内，都要完成赠款撰写技能的培训，从而为个别NRSA提出F-SERIS赠款建议。