University of Iowa Institutional Training Program in Oral Health Research

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的目的是建立在25年的研究培训成功的基础上，为爱荷华大学的牙科和颅面健康研究提供各种补充培训机会，培养一批牙科学者，他们的研究技能将满足21世纪口腔健康研究的挑战。目标是：1)提供优秀的跨学科教学培训；2)提供严谨的研究指导经验，包括持续的审查和批评；3)培养口腔健康研究领域的博士后。拟议的计划主要关注牙科毕业生，但认识到基础科学家也在口腔健康研究中发挥重要作用；因此，它也将为非牙医提供培训机会。R90的组成部分反映了非公民牙医在我们的口腔健康研究项目中越来越重要的作用，并将继续发挥作用。提供培训的研究领域反映了牙科学院、健康科学学院和爱荷华大学其他学院的优势，涵盖了从生物材料和组织工程到口腔粘膜疾病、从龋齿和氟化物研究到颅面遗传学和卫生服务研究的整个转化谱。具体来说，我们建议为牙医和非牙医提供培训，以攻读口腔科学博士学位（或跨学科遗传学项目，或分子和细胞生物学项目，视情况而定），或攻读博士后培训。此外，还将有机会获得由该大学临床和转化科学研究所（CTSA）主持的转化和临床研究证书。来自不同学科的35名经验丰富、才华横溢的项目教师为学员提供指导。培训将由经验丰富的主任和副主任监督，并由学院领导团队协助。将设立内部和外部咨询委员会以及招聘和多元化委员会，协助招聘和支持代表性不足的少数群体。总而言之，该项目将富有成效、资金充足的导师、博士生和博士后学员聚集在一个环境中，该环境具有强大的机构承诺，致力于发展杰出的跨学科研究培训，在相关学科中有良好的培训机构记录，以及优秀的教育和研究设施。结果将是口腔健康研究人员队伍的发展，配备在各自学科的前沿发挥作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This purpose of this application, building on 25 years of research training success, is to provide a variety of complementary training opportunities in dental and craniofacial health research at the U. of Iowa to develop a cohort of dental scholars whose research skills will meet the challenges of oral health research for the 21st century. The aims are to: 1) provide outstanding interdisciplinary didactic training; 2) provide rigorous research mentoring experiences involving ongoing review and critique; and 3) prepare post-doctoral trainees for academic careers in oral health research. The proposed program has a major focus on dental graduates, but recognizes that basic scientists also play important roles in oral health research; thus, it will also offer training opportunities for non-dentists. An R90 component reflects the increasingly important role that non-citizen dentists have, and will continue to have, in our oral health research programs. The research areas in which training is offered reflect the strengths of the College of Dentistry, the health science colleges, and other colleges at the University of Iowa, and range across the full translational spectrum from biomaterials and tissue engineering to oral mucosal disease and from caries and fluoride research to craniofacial genetics and Health Services Research. Specifically, we propose to offer training for dentists and non-dentists to pursue a PhD in Oral Sciences (or in the interdisciplinary Genetics Program, or in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, as appropriate), or to pursue post-doctoral training. In addition, there will be an opportunity to obtain a Certificate in Translational and Clinical Investigation under the auspices of the University's Institute for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CTSA). A group of 35 experienced and talented program faculty from a variety of disciplines is available to mentor trainees. Training will be supervised by an experienced Director and Associate Director, assisted by a Faculty Leadership team. There will be internal and external advisory committees and a Committee on Recruitment and Diversity to assist with recruitment and support of under- represented minorities. In summary, the program brings together productive, well-funded mentors, with pre- and post- doctoral trainees in an environment with strong institutional commitment to developing outstanding interdisciplinary research training, a fine institutional record of training in relevant disciplines, and excellent educational and research facilities. The outcome will be the development of a cadre of oral health researchers equipped to function at the cutting edge of their disciplines.