Educational Component

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Overview: Developing a robust biodefense research program will require the interactions of scientist and clinicians of diverse research interests. Focused education of students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty to increase their understanding of the human immunology, microbial pathogenesis, and vaccine development will be a critical component of such a program if it is to be sustained. This educational program will utilize several approaches to achieve this goal, including the development of program for technical training of students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty, the use of existing relevant courses and seminar series, the development of a new seminar series focused on Human Immunology and Biodefense, the development of visiting scientist program, and a mechanism to review these activities every six months. The heart of the Education Program will be structured around the proposed Technical Research Resource Development projects and the Research Projects (Table 1, above). Training will be provided to participants in our Cooperative Center, including graduate and post-doctoral trainees, faculty members and laboratory staff, in the course of pursuing all research activities related to these projects. We will also make these opportunities for learning innovative new methods for the analysis of the human immune response available to trainees and faculty from any Stanford laboratory, or from laboratories participating in other Cooperative Centers for Translational Research on Human Immunology and Biodefense. This opportunity will be publicized by an announcement through a distribution list of investigators at all center, to be obtained from the NIAID Program Officer. Each of the laboratories involved will be asked to identify one or two individuals who will be involved in the training for a particular technique. Although the potential time commitment involved in such training may vary, depending on the particular technique's popularity (e.g., currently there is a great interest in MHC tetramer-related technologies), we anticipate that the this time will constitute nor more than 10% of their total working hours per year. In most cases training will be carried out by highly experienced research technicians, rather than students or post-doctoral fellows, to avoid potential interference with educational or research pursuits. Any internal requests for this training and their scheduling will be evaluated on a weekly basis, and scheduled quickly, typically within a two week period. Outside requests will be scheduled within a month. This longer lead time will be necessary to be certain that there are no time conflicts with internal trainees. Depending on the technique, the maximum time involved in training is estimated as 8-10 hours.