Interdisciplinary Training in Nutritional and Population Health Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求支持哥伦比亚大学医学中心（CMEC）的一个新的跨学科博士后培训计划。该计划将由人类营养研究所（IHN）和流行病学系（EPI）领导，并由Debra Wolgemuth博士（IHN）和Ezra Susser博士（EPI）共同指导。拟议的导师是资金充足，出版良好的研究人员在培训硕士和博士前学生和博士后研究员相当丰富的经验。该培训计划的一个主要主题是培训具有翻译技能的研究人员，这些技能适用于定义生命周期早期营养素和营养对生命后期健康结果的影响。拟议的计划将利用这两个合作伙伴的独特优势，在CNOC相关的这一主题：i）在营养和代谢生物学的基础研究在IHN，和ii）在EPI的人口健康科学。该计划的目标是通过补充学科的教学和研究经验，为基础科学（通常是营养科学），医学或人口健康科学（通常是流行病学）的博士或同等学位的研究科学家提供博士后培训。在至少两年的培训期间，候选人将在每个领域的导师和共同导师的指导下，在互补学科中进行课程工作和伴随的研究项目。作为培训的一部分，学员将有机会获得补充学科的硕士学位。受训人员将保留其原有的基础科学或人口健康科学的学科重点，但他们在补充学科的培训将有助于从事跨学科研究，这需要来自两个领域的合作伙伴，并将使这种跨学科研究更加有效。因此，该计划的学员将为进入转化研究环境做好独特的准备，在这种环境中，桥接学科是提高人类健康的前沿研究的基本要求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for a new, interdisciplinary post-doctoral training program at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The program will be led by the Institute of Human Nutrition (IHN) and the Department of Epidemiology (EPI), and will be co-directed by Dr. Debra Wolgemuth (IHN) and Dr. Ezra Susser (EPI). The proposed mentors are well-funded and well-published investigators with considerable experience in training Masters and predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. A major theme of this training program is to train investigators with translational skills applicable to defining the effects of nutrients and nutrition early in the lifecycle on health outcomes later in life. The proposed program will capitalize on the unique strengths of these two partners within CUMC relevant to this theme: i) basic research in nutritional and metabolic biology in the IHN, and ii) population health science in EPI. The goal of the program is to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists with doctorate or equivalent degrees in a basic science (usually nutritional science), medicine, or in a population health science (usually epidemiology) through didactic and research experience in the complementary discipline. During the minimum two-year training period, the candidates will pursue course work and concomitant research projects in the complementary discipline under the direction of a mentor and co-mentor from each field. The trainees will have the opportunity to obtain an MS degree in the complementary discipline as part of their training. The trainees will retain their original disciplinary focus in basic science or population health science, but their training in the complementary discipline will facilitate engagement in interdisciplinary research which requires partners from both fields, and will make this interdisciplinary research much more effective. Thus trainees of the program will be uniquely prepared to enter translational research environments where bridging disciplines is an essential requirement for cutting edge research to enhance human health.