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

项目总结 阿尔茨海默病、神经胶质瘤、帕金森氏病和肌萎缩侧索硬化症等脑疾病 硬化症摧毁了数百万患者及其家人的生活。尽管进行了数十年的研究 这些和其他脑部疾病耗资数十亿美元，严重缺乏诊断工具，有效的疾病- 修改疗法，适当的对症处理，甚至明确的机械性原因。 鉴于基础科学知识取得了令人难以置信的进步，这些失败尤为突出。因此， 临床医生迫切需要参与人类大脑疾病的基础研究，因为他们 非常适合于发现新的治疗方法。爱荷华大学临床神经科学家培训 该计划旨在为培养优秀的神经学和神经外科提供更有效的途径 基础研究的住院医师，目标是增加继续在基础研究中学习的学员的比例 作为多产的临床医生和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.