Graduate Training for Rationally Designed, Integrative Biomaterials - GT BioMAT

描述（由申请人提供）：生物材料显著影响成千上万人的生活质量，从其在隐形眼镜到深部脑刺激器中的作用可见一斑。在这 竞争性的更新应用程序，我们建议继续一个程序，是由优秀的培训教师，优秀的，富有成效的学生，以及协作和培育环境锚定。在过去的五年里，GTBioMAT培训计划的重点是整合三个重要的技能集，这对培养生物材料科学和工程领域的未来领导者至关重要：1）合成和表征新材料的能力，其设计是由对基础临床和基础科学问题的理解驱动的; 2）功能化和应用这些材料的能力，使得它们适当地集成到livig系统中; 3）培养学员的领导能力，使他们通过创新和研究引领下一代生物材料科学与工程研究。我们吸引了一批强大而多样化的学员参加该计划，他们在出版物，演讲和他们在校园中担任的领导角色中取得了很大的进步。我们的培训计划的关键优势是：1）培训教师的最高群体，具有研究兴趣，专业知识，年龄，级别，性别的出色多样性 和种族，跨越多个部门在格鲁吉亚技术和埃默里; 2）一个优秀的和多样化的学生池感兴趣的生物材料研究来自美国各地的最好的机构绘制; 3）一个独特的核心课程序列，旨在提供上下文相关的，技能的合理设计和合成聚合物材料; 4）临床faclty在学生培训的多个层次的整合（从论文委员会导师午餐会）; 5）一个独特的，创新的和成功的研究生领导计划的学员，其影响延伸到校园更广泛。我们相信，我们的培训计划的目标是利用格鲁吉亚理工学院和埃默里医学院现存的独特优势和环境，培养下一代生物材料科学家，他们领导和贡献独特的技能，从合成新材料到自我意识和以积极的方式影响世界。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biomaterials significantly impact the quality of life of thousands of people as evident from their role in contact lenses to deep brain stimulators. In this competitive renewal application, we propose the continuation of a program that is anchored by excellent training faculty, outstanding, productive students, and a collaborative and nurturing environment. Over the past five years, the GTBioMAT training program has focused on integrating three important skill sets that are critical to training the future leaders in Biomaterals science and engineering: 1) the ability to synthesize and characterize new materials whose design is driven by an understanding of the underlying clinical and basic science issues; 2) the ability to functionalize and apply these materials such that they integrate appropriately into livig systems; and 3) develop leadership skills in the trainees such that they lead the next generation of Biomaterials Science and Engineering research through their innovation and research. We have attracted a strong and diverse set of trainees to the program who are making excellent progress as evident from their publications, presentations and the leadership roles they are assuming on campus. The critical strengths of our training program are: 1) An superlative group of training faculty, with an excellent diversity by research interest, expertise, age, rank, gender and race that spans multiple departments at Georgia Tech and Emory; 2) An outstanding and diverse student pool interested in Biomaterials research drawn from the best institutions across the United States; 3) A unique core course sequence designed to provide contextually-relevant, skills for the rational design and synthesis of polymeric materials; 4) Integration of clinical faclty at multiple levels of student training (from thesis committees to mentor luncheons); 5) A unique, innovative and successful graduate leadership program for trainees whose impact extends to the campus more broadly. We believe that our training program is on target to leverage the unique strengths and environment extant at Georgia Tech and Emory School of Medicine to train the next generation of Biomaterials scientists who lead and contribute with unique skills that range from synthesizing new materials to being self-aware and influencing the world in a positive manner.