Graduate Training for Rationally Designed, Integrative Biomaterials - GT BioMAT

描述(申请人提供)：生物材料显著影响成千上万人的生活质量，从它们在隐形眼镜和大脑深部刺激器中的作用可见一斑。在这 对于竞争性续签申请，我们建议继续实施一项以优秀的培训教师、杰出的、富有成效的学生以及协作和培养环境为基础的计划。在过去的五年中，GTBioMAT培训计划侧重于整合对培训未来生物材料科学和工程领域的领导者至关重要的三项重要技能：1)合成和表征新材料的能力，这些材料的设计是基于对潜在的临床和基础科学问题的理解；2)使这些材料功能化和应用以使它们适当地集成到Livig系统中的能力；以及3)培养学员的领导技能，使他们能够通过创新和研究领导下一代生物材料科学和工程研究。我们已经吸引了一批强大和多样化的实习生参加该项目，他们的出版物、演示文稿和他们在校园中扮演的领导角色都证明了他们取得了出色的进步。我们的培训计划的关键优势是：1)一批最优秀的培训教师，他们在研究兴趣、专业知识、年龄、级别、性别等方面都具有极好的多样性 2)一个对生物材料研究感兴趣的优秀和多样化的学生群体，来自美国最好的机构；3)一个独特的核心课程序列，旨在提供与背景相关的技能，用于合理设计和合成聚合物材料；4)在多个学生培训级别(从论文委员会到导师午餐会)整合临床事实；5)为受训者提供独特、创新和成功的研究生领导力计划，其影响延伸到更广泛的校园。我们相信，我们的培训计划的目标是利用佐治亚理工学院和埃默里医学院现有的独特优势和环境，培养下一代生物材料科学家，他们以独特的技能领导和贡献，从合成新材料到自我意识，并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.