Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：跨学科生物医学成像培训计划将准备博士前学员成为生物体水平，生物医学成像研究的领导者。由工程师、物理学家、生物学家和临床医生组成的多学科团队 需要推进生物医学成像，特别是随着体内细胞和分子成像的出现。我们将培养下一代跨学科的生物医学成像科学家和工程师，他们将为这些团队做出贡献并领导这些团队。我们的培训计划将建立在持续的，重大的机构，州，联邦和商业投资的教师和成像基础设施。培训补助金将使学生成为正在进行的跨学科/多学科研究项目的中心。学员将使用成像研究病例中心的成像设施，其中包括最先进的临床和小动物成像系统，沿着指导教师的实验室。博士前学员将来自生物医学工程和物理学的高评价部门，这两个部门在生物医学成像方面都有着悠久的培训历史。学员将开展研究项目，结合成像技术与生物医学研究。每个学员将有两个或两个以上的导师代表成像技术和成像的生物/临床应用。我们的教育计划包括一系列成像课程，包括专注于成像物理，图像分析和重建的课程，以及细胞和分子成像和纳米医学（纳米治疗和成像剂），这是一门专门为纳米治疗诊断学跨学科培训而设计的新课程。我们将在指定的成像时间内通过一系列多样化的活动促进跨学科研究的文化。培训资金主要用于招收一年级研究生，这是我们机构的一个重大需求。我们的T32使我们能够增加对妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的招聘。总的来说，与博士后相比，它有助于使研究生具有成本效益，并确保在这一急需领域对国内博士进行培训。在不到四年的时间里，我们的T32计划已经成功地培养了四名毕业生，他们都有着模范的培训记录，并朝着成功的方向发展。其他学员正在通过该计划，专注于令人兴奋的跨学科成像研究，并具有出色的研究生产力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Imaging Training Program will prepare predoctoral trainees to become leaders in organism-level, biomedical imaging research. Multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, physicists, biologists, and clinicians are required to advance biomedical imaging, especially with the advent of in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. We will create the next generation of interdisciplinary biomedical imaging scientists and engineers who will contribute to and lead such teams. Our training program will build upon continuing, significant institutional, state, federal, and commercial investment in faculty and imaging infrastructure. A training grant award will place students squarely in the center of on-going interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary research programs. Trainees will use imaging facilities in the Case Center for Imaging Research which includes state-of- the-art clinical and small animal imaging systems, along with labs of mentoring faculty. Predoctoral trainees will be from the highly-rated departments of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, both of which have a long history of training in biomedical imaging. Trainees will conduct research projects combining enabling technologies in imaging with biomedical research. Each trainee will have two or more mentors representing both imaging technology and biological/clinical applications of imaging. Our educational program includes a portfolio of imaging courses, including ones focusing on imaging physics, image analysis, and reconstruction, as well as Cellular and Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (Nanosized Therapeutics and Imaging Agents), a new course specially designed for interdisciplinary training in nanoparticle theranostics. We will promote a culture of inter- disciplinary research in a series of diverse activities during a designated Imaging Hour. Training funds are mostly used to recruit first year graduate students, a significant need at our institution. Our T32 has enabled us to increase recruitment of women and under-represented minorities. In general, it has helped make graduate students cost effective as compared to post docs and ensured training of domestic PhD's in this area of critical need. In less than four years, our T32 program has already successfully trained four graduates, all with exemplary training records and with a trajectory towards success. Other trainees are moving through the program focusing on exciting interdisciplinary imaging research and with excellent research productivity.