21st-Century Imaging Sciences: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Training

成像科学持续进步的关键是将传统上离散的 研究。例如，观察活细胞中细胞器和大分子复合体的进展 需要与成像活体动物的新方法相结合；在 产生新型显像剂的硅化学需要与新的选择方法相结合 并使用模拟人类疾病的转基因动物模型。要实现潜力， 分子、细胞、活体动物和人类成像的不断发展的范例为21世纪的骨干提供了 科学家必须接受培训，并将化学、生物学、工程学、物理学和 数学必须要学好。 华盛顿大学的成像科学界，因为它的广度，多样性和 资金的深度，处于一个极好的地位，通过吸引和 培养下一代成像科学家。我们建议设计课程和开发机会，以 在本科生和学生的学术生涯中最具成熟期的阶段 读研究生的几年。及早录取学生是必要的，以培养广泛的学术基础 包括物理科学、生命科学和工程学。影像科学本科生之路将 被开发出来。三年级和四年级的学生将有机会参加 与成像相关的化学、物理学、计算机科学、工程学和分子细胞生物学 并在成像科学实验室获得深入的研究经验。为 博士研究生，我们建议创建一个影像科学研究生通道，该通道将可用于 生物医学、物理和定量科学、心理学和工程学的学生。我们 预计研究生课程将在2008年成熟为正式的研究生课程，届时我们 优化了课程设置，建立了跨学科培训管理机制 在文理学院、医学院、工程与应用学院有导师的学生 科学。我们设想，一名完成了成像科学途径培训的研究生 或研究生课程将开阔他们的视野，并打开新的研究机会 跨学科科学的新时代。 [相关研究所：NIBIB、NIGMS、NCI.NINDS、NHLBJ]

Critical to continued progress in imaging sciences is the integration of traditionally discrete lines of research. For example, advances in observing organelles and macromolecular complexes in living cells need to be integrated with new methodological approachesto imaging live animals; advances in siochemistry that produce novel imaging agents need to be integrated with new approaches to selective cellular delivery and employ transgenic animal models simulating human diseases. To realize the potential that evolving paradigms of molecular, cellular, live animal and human imaging offer, a cadre of 21st-century scientists must be trainedand a revolutionary synthesis of chemistry, biology, engineering, physics and mathematics must be achieved. The imaging science community at Washington University, because of its breadth, diversity and depth of funding, is in an excellent position to foster the development of a new approach by attracting and training next-generation imaging scientists. We propose to devise curricula and develop opportunities that reach out to students at the most formative stages of their academic careersin their undergraduate and graduate years. Early accessto students is imperative to develop a broadly-basedacademic foundation in both the physical and life sciences, and in engineering. An Undergraduate Imaging Sciences Pathway will be developed. Students in their junior and senior years will have the opportunity to take courses in chemistry, physics, computer science, engineering and molecular cell biology as they relate to imaging sciences, and to gain in-depth research experience in laboratories of imaging sciencesfaculty. For predoctoral students, we propose to create a Graduate Imaging Sciences Pathway that will be available to students in the biomedical sciences, physical and quantitative sciences, psychology, and engineering. We anticipate that the Graduate Pathway program will mature into a formal graduate program in 2008, when we have optimized the curriculum and developed the administrative mechanisms for interdisciplinary training of students having mentors in the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering and Applied Sciences. We envision that a graduate student who has completed training in the Imaging Sciences Pathway or graduate program will be poised to broaden their horizons and open new opportunities for research in the new age of interdisciplinary science. [Relevant Institutes: NIBIB, NIGMS, NCI.NINDS, NHLBJ]