Biotechnology Training Grant

 描述(由申请者提供)：弗吉尼亚大学生物技术培训计划(BTP)现已进入第15个年头，现已发展成为一个高度互动的博士生社区，从每年5月的竞赛中有选择地挑选出来，该竞赛面向全校所有理工系的博士生。正在接受培训(15名)或毕业(47名)的BTP学生平均本科生平均GPA为3.70，目前包括2名少数族裔和1名经济困难学生，由6个不同的系招待。在UVA BTP存在的过程中，学员和毕业生(19% 他们获得了多个奖项，经历了来自38个不同公司的51个不同的外部职位，毕业后受雇于工业(22个)、学术界(14个；包括4个助理教授和1个助理教授)、政府(3个)、医药(5个)或基金会(1个)。一位是公司总裁，两位是葛兰素史克和安进的董事，另一位是NSF的副主任。自2005年以来，已有75篇第一作者论文发表在影响因子高达24的期刊上。学员直接负责BTP的计划功能，包括：BTP研讨会和研讨会、BTP关爱日、BTP工业问答小组和BTP公司之旅。指导我们的学员是一个高度参与、合作和资金充足的教职员工，由来自15个部门的42人组成。机构支持对我们的成功至关重要，包括帮助外部研究和研讨会资助的研究副总裁，以及由工程学院资助的额外培训时段。我们认为BTP的使命有三个方面：(I)最重要的是将我们的学生培养成杰出的科学家，他们最终将在生物技术的不同专业职位上为社会做出贡献，(Ii)通过我们的外部奖学金计划提供有意义的工业科学经验，以及(Iii)通过定期的BTP期刊俱乐部/数据会议、研讨会和研讨会促进不同学科的BTP学生之间的科学协同。在接下来的竞争更新中，我们认为，在这些领域中的每一个领域都取得了成功，从而帮助培养了新一代年轻科学家，他们以分析的头脑和广泛的现代技术应对新的科学挑战。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Biotechnology Training Program (BTP) at UVA, now in its 15th year, has developed into a highly interactive community of PhD trainees drawn selectively from an annual May competition open to PhD students from all science and engineering departments university-wide. BTP students in training (15) or graduated (47) entered with an average undergraduate GPA of 3.70, currently include 2 minorities and 1 financially disadvantaged, and are hosted by 6 different departments. Over the course of the existence of the UVA BTP, trainees and graduates (19% minority or disadvantaged) have received multiple awards, experienced 51 different externships from 38 different companies, and after graduation are now employed in industry (22), academia (14; including 4 Ass't and 1 Assoc Professors), government (3), medicine (5), or foundation (1). One is a company president, two are Directors at GSK and Amgen, and another is an NSF Deputy Director. Since '05, 75 first author articles have been published in journals with impact factors as high as 24. Trainees have taken direct responsibility for programmatic features of the BTP including: BTP Symposia and Seminars, BTP Day of Caring, BTP Industrial Q&A Panels and BTP company tours. Mentoring our trainees is a highly engaged, collaborative and well-funded faculty of 42 individuals from 15 departments. Institutional support has been essential for our success, including Vice President for Research in help with externship and Symposia funding, and an additional training slot funded by the School of Engineering. We view the BTP's mission as threefold: (i) most importantly to train our students to be exceptional scientists who will ultimately contribute to society in diverse professional positions in biotechnology, (ii) to provide a meaningful experience in industrial science via our externship program, and (iii) to promote scientific synergy among BTP students of different disciplines through regular BTP Journal Clubs/Data Sessions, Seminars and Symposia. We argue in the following competitive renewal that success in each of these areas has been achieved, thereby helping to develop a new generation of young scientists who approach new scientific challenges with analytical minds and an extensive array of modern technologies.