Training Program in Neuroscience

神经科学培训计划

• 批准号: 9069985
• 负责人: Eric Klann
• 金额: $ 37.27万
• 依托单位: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9069985
• 关键词: Neurosciences; Training Programs

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this competing renewal application, we request funds to continue support for an integrated, multidisciplinary, neuroscience training program at New York University, one that prepares trainees for the intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of modern neuroscience research. Historically, two neuroscience graduate programs existed in parallel at NYU. However, with substantial support from the University over the past seven years, we have reached a new phase of program integration that seamlessly merges neuroscience graduate education at NYU and offers far greater breadth and depth of training than each program offered individually. Our program, which includes 81 training faculty, combines the strengths in systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience from the Washington Square-based Center for Neural Science with those in cellular, molecular, developmental, translational, and clinical neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine campus, and it serves as the foundation for the extensive neuroscience community at NYU. Our graduate program is highly competitive at the national level, proven by our success during the previous funding period in recruiting outstanding graduate students as well as a number of new junior and senior faculty. Since our last submission, the Medical School also recruited Richard Tsien to establish the NYU Neuroscience Institute, which has created even greater enthusiasm around the neuroscience program here at NYU. The specific goals of our neuroscience training program are: (1) To provide a rigorous, high-quality, and broad-based graduate education in neuroscience within the context of an interactive, collegial, and cutting-edge research environment; (2) To increase the number of high caliber students that apply to and participate in the program, including active recruitment of underrepresented minorities; (3) To provide students with guidance of a rigorous mentoring system that ushers students through a series of milestones to a doctoral degree typically in 5-6 years; (4) To train students in necessary professional skills, including critical reading, grant writing, oral presentation, leadership, management, and networking; (5) To encourage a broad perspective on the field of neuroscience that encompasses basic, translational, and clinical research; and (6) To prepare students for the variety of scientific career opportunities that will be available to them after graduate school. We request funding for 12 predoctoral students in their first and second years. The increase in slots over the previous funding period is amply justified by the large increase in faculty and student populations. Through our newly integrated graduate program, we provide trainees with a vast and rich intellectual environment, as well as the resources and experience, to confidently pursue their own scientific interests and become independent scientific leaders, who will make future breakthroughs in basic, translational, and clinical neuroscience.

 描述（由申请人提供）：在这一竞争性更新申请中，我们请求资金继续支持纽约大学的综合、多学科、神经科学培训项目，该项目旨在帮助学员为现代神经科学研究的紧密协作和跨学科性质做好准备。从历史上看，纽约大学同时存在两个神经科学研究生项目。然而，在过去七年里，在大学的大力支持下，我们已经进入了项目整合的新阶段，无缝地融合了纽约大学的神经科学研究生教育，并提供比单独提供的每个项目更大的培训广度和深度。我们的项目包括 81 名培训教师，将华盛顿广场神经科学中心的系统、认知和计算神经科学优势与纽约大学医学院校园的细胞、分子、发育、转化和临床神经科学优势相结合，并为纽约大学广泛的神经科学界奠定了基础。我们的研究生项目在全国范围内具有很强的竞争力，这从我们在上一个资助期间成功招募优秀研究生以及一批新的初级和高级教师就可以看出。自从我们上次提交以来，医学院还聘请了理查德·钱（Richard Tsien）建立了纽约大学神经科学研究所，这为纽约大学的神经科学项目创造了更大的热情。我们的神经科学培训计划的具体目标是：（1）在互动、学院和前沿的研究环境中提供严谨、高质量和基础广泛的神经科学研究生教育； (2) 增加申请和参与该计划的高素质学生数量，包括积极招募代表性不足的少数族裔； (3) 为学生提供严格的导师体系指导，引导学生通常在5-6年内完成一系列取得博士学位的里程碑； (4) 培养学生必要的专业技能，包括批判性阅读、资助写作、口头陈述、领导力、管理和人际网络； (5) 鼓励对神经科学领域的广泛视野，包括基础、转化和临床研究； (6) 让学生为研究生毕业后可获得的各种科学职业机会做好准备。我们请求为 12 名博士前学生第一年和第二年提供资助。教师和学生人数的大幅增加充分证明了上一资助期间名额的增加是合理的。通过我们新整合的研究生项目，我们为学员提供广阔而丰富的智力环境以及资源和经验，让他们自信地追求自己的科学兴趣，成为独立的科学领导者，他们将在基础、转化和临床神经科学领域取得未来的突破。