Training in Hearing & Communication Neuroscience

描述(由申请者提供)：南加州大学神经科学研究生项目(DSC NGP)和内耳研究所(HEI)共同提议为博士后、博士后和研究生医生-科学家学者建立一个独特的研究培训计划：南加州大学/HEI听力和沟通神经科学培训计划。该计划汇集了广泛的科学家，以加强跨学科交流，并提供了独特的优势，提供了研究培训机会，将基础科学与临床听力和通信应用联系起来。该计划将进一步巩固文学艺术与科学学院、凯克医学院、南加州大学维特比工程学院和高等院校科学家之间的研究和培训互动。该计划将结合一批专注于听力和交流基本方面的杰出研究人员的优势，南加州大学神经科学和高等学校研究生计划的资源，以及高等学校在临床耳科卓越方面的专业知识。这项建议的基本原理是让博士后、博士后和医生-科学家实习生参加从细胞生物学到认知神经科学和语言学的高度互动和多学科的培训体验，不受传统系障碍的束缚，并积极促进他们作为独立科学家的发展。我们建议每年四名博士后和两名博士后，为任何一名学者提供最多两年的支持。其中一名博士后学者可以是从高等学校临床研究奖学金或南加州大学耳鼻咽喉科住院医师计划招募的内科科学家。博士后实习生通常将在研究生培训的第二年加入该项目，而参加该项目的博士后实习生的资历水平将有所不同。所有受训人员将接受与听力和通信相关的研究和实践技能的所有方面的培训，这将为他们在独立资助的研究、教育和工业领域的职业生涯做好准备。能够让学员直接接触基础科学的尖端研究以及正在进行的临床研究和应用，这是该计划的一个主要和独特的优势。 相关性：这项建议侧重于与人类言语和语言障碍以及沟通障碍直接相关的研究和培训。这一培训计划将帮助培养一支科学家队伍，以解决与听力和声音交流有关的基本问题。这些人不仅将促进我们对广泛的听觉-声音沟通障碍的生物和行为基础的理解，而且还将产生创新的诊断和治疗应用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Southern California Neuroscience Graduate Program (DSC NGP) and the House Ear Institute (HEI) together propose to establish a unique research training program for predoctoral, postdoctoral, and postgraduate physician-scientist scholars: the USC/HEI Hearing and Communication Neuroscience Training Program. The program brings together a broad spectrum of scientists to enhance inter-disciplinary communication, and offers the unique advantage of providing research training opportunities that bridge basic science with clinical hearing and communications applications. The program will further solidify the research and training interactions between scientists in the College of Letters Arts & Sciences, the Keck School of Medicine, the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC, and HEI. The program will combine the strengths of an outstanding group of researchers focused on basic aspects of hearing and communication, the resources of the USC Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the HEI, and the expertise in clinical otologic excellence of the HEI. The rationale of this proposal is to engage predoctoral, postdoctoral, and physician-scientist trainees in a highly interactive and multidisciplinary training experience ranging from cell biology to cognitive neuroscience and linguistics that is unfettered by conventional departmental barriers, and actively facilitates their development as independent scientists. We propose four predoctoral and two postdoctoral scholars per year for a maximum of two years support for any one scholar. One of the postdoctoral scholars can be a physician-scientist recruited from the HEI Clinical Research Fellowship or the USC Otolaryngology Residency Program. Pre-doctoral trainees will typically join the program during the second year of their graduate training, whereas the level of seniority of post-doctoral trainees participating in the program will vary. All trainees will receive training in all aspects of hearing- and communication-related research and practical skills that will prepare them for careers in independently-funded research, education, and industry. The ability to expose trainees directly to both cutting-edge research in basic science as well as ongoing clinical research and applications is a major and unique strength of the program. RELEVANCE: This proposal focuses on research and training that are directly relevant to speech and language disorders and communication disabilities in humans. This training program will help prepare a cadre of scientists to address fundamental questions pertaining to hearing and vocal communication. These individuals will not only advance our understanding of biologic and behavioral bases of a broad spectrum of auditory-vocal communication disorders, but will also generate innovative diagnostic and therapeutic applications.