TRAINING PROGRAM IN ION CHANNEL AND TRANSPORTER BIOLOGY

描述（改编自申请人提供的摘要）：离子通道和 转运蛋白是一种普遍存在的分子， 生理功能，为许多类型的药理学提供靶点 因子，并由基因编码，可遗传疾病的基础 影响神经系统和其他组织该提案描述了一个新的 离子通道和转运蛋白生物学培训计划，将努力 为博士前和博士后提供多学科研究培训 基础科学家和物理学家。这个高度集中的培训项目 将涉及18个NIH资助的导师在7个不同的学术部门， 范德比尔特大学，在离子通道方面有很好的成就记录 和运输领域，并致力于培养学生和 博士后根据研究专业知识的广度， 培训教师，学员可以预期获得经验，在一个或多个 以下学科：生理学，药理学，神经科学，分子 结构生物学和遗传学。博士生将在 从申请研究生课程的国家申请人中招募， 我们的跨学科研究生和医学科学家培训计划。 额外的博士前学生可能会出现从我们的医学学者计划， 范德比尔特医学院的一个创新研究休假项目。 博士后培训生将从申请人中挑选 to preceptor导师laboratories实验室as well as physicianscientist物理学家applicants申请人from various各种 范德比尔特大学医学中心的临床培训项目。在 除了密集的研究经验，无论是博士前和博士后 学员将有严格的教学课程要求，并有正式的 辅导和职业指导。培训计划的目标是发展 基础科学家和医学科学家， 离子通道和转运体生物学的生物医学研究，特别是在 与人类健康和疾病直接相关。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted From The Abstract Provided By Applicant): Ion channels and transporter proteins are ubiquitous molecules that serve a variety of important physiological functions, provide targets for many types of pharmacological agents, and are encoded by genes that can be the basis for inherited diseases affecting the nervous system and other tissues. This proposal describes a new Training Program in Ion Channel and Transporter Biology that will strive to provide multidisciplinary research training for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral basic scientists and physicianscientists. This highly focused training program will involve 18 NIH-funded mentors in 7 different academic departments at Vanderbilt University with strong records of accomplishments in the ion channel and transporter field, and with a deep commitment to training students and postdoctoral fellows. Based on the breadth of research expertise of the training faculty, trainees can be expected to gain experiences in one or more of the following disciplines: physiology, pharmacology, neuroscience, molecular biology, structural biology, and genetics. Pre-doctoral students will be recruited from a national pool of applicants who apply for graduate studies in our Interdisciplinary Graduate and Medical Scientist Training Programs. Additional pre-doctoral students may emerge from our Medical Scholars Program, an innovative research leave program in the Vanderbilt Medical School. Post-doctoral trainees will be selected from the pool of applicants that apply to preceptor laboratories as well as physicianscientist applicants from various clinical training programs at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. In addition to intensive research experiences, both pre-doctoral and post-doctoral trainees will have rigorous didactic course requirements, and have formal mentoring and career guidance. The goal of the training program is to develop basic scientists and physicianscientists with strong commitments to academic biomedical research in ion channel and transporter biology especially in areas with direct relevance to human health and disease.