Carver College of Medicine Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program (CNS-TP)

项目摘要 脑疾病，如阿尔茨海默氏病、神经胶质瘤、帕金森氏病和肌萎缩侧索硬化症， 硬化症威胁着数百万患者及其家人的生命。尽管经过几十年的研究 花费数十亿美元，这些和其他脑部疾病严重缺乏诊断工具，有效的疾病- 修改治疗，适当的对症治疗，甚至明确的机械原因。 在基础科学知识取得令人难以置信的进步的情况下，这些失败尤其突出。因此 临床医生迫切需要参与人类大脑疾病的基础研究， 非常适合于发现新的治疗方法。爱荷华州大学临床神经科学家培训 该计划旨在成为培养优秀神经病学和神经外科学的更有效途径 基础研究的住院医师，目标是增加继续从事基础研究的受训人员的比例。 作为生产性临床科学家的长期职业生涯。

PROJECT SUMMARY Brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, glioma, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis devastate the lives of millions of patients and their families. Despite decades of research costing billions of dollars, these and other brain diseases sorely lack diagnostic tools, effective disease- modifying therapies, adequate symptomatic managements, or even well-defined mechanistic causes. These failures stand out particularly in light of incredible advances in basic scientific knowledge. Thus there is a critical need for clinicians to be involved in basic research on human brain disease since they are well suited to identify new treatments. The University of Iowa Clinical Neuroscientist Training Program is designed as a more efficient pathway to train outstanding neurology and neurosurgery residents in basic research, with the goal of increasing the percentage of trainees who continue in a long career as productive clinician-scientists.