Nutrition Sciences and Health

这是一项竞争性的继续提供培训补助金的提案，由营养和健康部管理。 科学（NHS）埃默里大学计划。培训补助金对稳定至关重要， NHS计划于1993年成立。在两次融资期间， 在1996- 2001年和2002- 2006年两个周期，基金资助了22名博士生; 12名博士生完成了学业。 博士，而其余的仍然在居住和良好的信誉。这些受训人员获得了无数奖项 和研究金，在国家和国际会议上介绍了他们的工作，并出版了许多 在referred期刊上发表的文章。大多数毕业生都在学术界和社会上找到了有前途的职位。 公共或私营部门。 营养学领域的复杂性使得营养学研究学生的培养尤为重要。 具有挑战性，因为学生必须在关键专业领域获得深度，同时学习如何在 许多学科之间的接口本身也在迅速变化。NHS计划是一个模型 这样的跨学科培训。NHS提供严格的跨学科培训， 从基础科学到临床研究再到公共卫生，并为学生提供必要的 调查营养与人类健康之间关系的技能，包括预防和控制 国家和全球关注的营养问题和相关疾病。NHS计划并不包括 行政上在任何一个部门;相反，它的教师来自整个大学（主要来自 医学和公共卫生学院的部门）和位于埃默里的两个机构 校园，即疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）和美国癌症协会。 由于埃默里大学强调博士课程的增长，也因为强大的 为了满足申请人对NHS计划的需求，我们要求增加学员人数， 每年四到六次博士前学生的培训计划包括核心课程和选修课程， 指导研究项目和论文研究。我们还要求，作为一个新的补充， 补助金，在第2-5年的每一年两个博士后培训（共4名学员，每人最多 两年的培训时间）。强大的研究环境提供了许多研究机会 和博士后候选人的指导。

This is a competing continuation proposal for a training grant administered by the Nutrition and Health Sciences (NHS) program of Emory University. The training grant has been critical for stability and development of the NHS program, which was established in 1993. Over the duration of the two funding cycles (1996-01 and 2002-06), funds have supported 22 doctoral students; twelve have completed their PhD, while the rest are still in residence and in good standing. These trainees have won numerous awards and fellowships, have presented their work at national and international meetings, and have published many articles in refereed journals. Most graduates have gone on to promising positions in academia and in the public or private sector. The complexities of the field of nutrition make the training of students in nutrition research particularly challenging because students must acquire depth in key specialized areas while learning how to function at the interfaces among many disciplines that are, themselves, changing rapidly. The NHS program is a model for such interdisciplinary training. The NHS offers rigorous interdisciplinary training that spans the spectrum from basic sciences through clinical research to public health, and provides students with the necessary skills to investigate the relationship between nutrition and human health, including the prevention and control of nutritional problems and related diseases of national and global concern. The NHS program is not housed administratively in any one department; rather, its faculty come from across the university (primarily from departments in the schools of medicine and public health) and from two institutions located on the Emory campus, namely The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Cancer Society. As a result of the emphasis at Emory on growth of doctoral programs and also because of a strong demand from applicants to the NHS program, we are requesting an increase in the number of trainees, from four to six per year. The training program for predoctoral students consists of core and elective courses, 3 mentored research projects, and dissertation research. We are also requesting, as a new addition to the grant, two postdoctoral traineeships during each of years 2-5 (a total of 4 trainees, each for a maximum of two years over the training period). A strong research environment provides many opportunities for research and mentoring of postdoctoral candidates.