Training in Hearing and Communication Neuroscience

描述（由申请人提供）：南加州大学（USC）和House研究所（HRI）共同为博士前、博士后和医学家学者建立了一个研究培训计划：南加州大学/HRI听力和通信神经科学（HCN）培训计划。该项目汇集了广泛的科学家，以加强跨学科的交流，并提供了提供研究培训机会的优势，将基础科学与转化研究和临床听力应用联系起来。该项目旨在加强HRI科学家与南加州大学多恩斯夫文理学院、凯克医学院和维特比工程学院的科学家之间的研究和培训互动。该项目结合了南加州大学和HRI在听力和语音交流基础方面的杰出研究人员的优势，南加州大学神经科学，心理学和语言学研究生课程的资源，以及HRI在临床耳科方面的卓越专业知识。这一提议的基本原理是让博士前、博士后和医生-科学家的受训者在一个高度互动和多学科的培训经历中，从细胞生物学到认知神经科学和语言学，不受传统部门障碍的束缚，积极促进他们作为独立科学家的发展。在资助的前四年，我们每年都成功地填补了所有的博士生和博士后学者。其中一名博士后学者是一名内科科学家，他也完成了众议院神经病学临床奖学金计划。博士前受训者通常在研究生培训的第二年加入该计划，而参与该计划的博士后受训者的资历水平各不相同。所有受训者都将接受听力和通信神经科学各方面的多学科培训，以及为他们在独立资助的研究、教育和工业领域的职业生涯做好准备的实用技能。能够使受训者直接接触基础科学的前沿研究以及正在进行的临床研究和应用是该计划的主要优势。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Southern California (USC) and the House Research Institute (HRI) together have established a research training program for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and physician-scientist scholars: the USC/HRI Hearing and Communication Neuroscience (HCN) Training Program. The program brings together a broad spectrum of scientists to enhance inter-disciplinary communication, and offers the advantage of providing research training opportunities that bridge basic science with translational research and clinical hearing applications. The program serves to reinforce research and training interactions between scientists at HRI with scientists in the Dornsife College of Letters Arts & Sciences, the Keck School of Medicine, and the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC. The program combines the strengths of an outstanding group of researchers focused on basic aspects of hearing and vocal communication at both USC and HRI, the resources of USC graduate programs in Neuroscience, Psychology, and Linguistics, and the expertise in clinical otologic excellence of HRI. The rationale of this proposal is to engage predoctoral, postdoctoral, and physician- scientist trainees in a highly interactive and multi-disciplinary training experienc ranging from cell biology to cognitive neuroscience and linguistics that is unfettered by conventional departmental barriers, and actively facilitates their development as independent scientists. We have successfully filled all positions with predoctoral and postdoctoral scholars every year during the first four years of the grant. One of the postdoctoral scholars was a physician-scientist who also completed the House Neurotology Clinical Fellowship Program. Predoctoral trainees typically join the program during the second year of their graduate training, whereas the level of seniority of post-doctoral trainees participating in the program varies. All trainees receive multi-disciplinary training in all aspects of hearing and communication neuroscience, as well as practical skills that will prepare them for careers in independently-funded research, education, and industry. The ability to expose trainees directly to both cutting-edge research in basic science as well as ongoing clinical research and applications is a major strength of the program.