UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering

项目摘要 该提案旨在确保为学生提供培训补助金和相关支持 在他们的头两年在加州大学旧金山分校/加州大学伯克利分校生物工程研究生课程。 在过去的31年里，生物工程专业共培养了357名博士 学生这种支持是UCSF/UC Berkeley独特结构的支柱，该结构 要求学生在头两年有经济支持。最初的两个 多年的准备工作包括工程和生物医学方面的密集课程 科学，以及三个实验室轮换，是必不可少的学生在选择 适当的论文研究课题。在以后的一年里，学生们得到了经济上的支持。 通过他们的研究导师 UCSF/UC Berkeley生物工程计划将两所领先的大学联系在一起， 拥有互补优势的加州校园：UCSF是领先的健康 科学机构和加州大学伯克利分校的工程学院是全国领先的物理 以理工科为重为学生提供的培训环境的广度和深度是一个 比一个部门所能提供的要多。我们的教师是基于在22个部门 超过两个校区和他们的实验室包括一系列最先进的设施。 学术和智力环境促进物理和物理之间的无缝互动， 生命科学，培养学生解决复杂的生物学问题，重点是 翻译研究的需求量很大。UCSF/UC Berkeley研究生课程 生物工程在这种整合方面有着既定的记录， 合作的原因之一，该计划的结构，让学生花 两年专注于各种实验室轮换和课程工作之前，承诺 他们的论文项目 随着加州大学旧金山分校最近生物工程研究和教育项目的扩大， 和加州大学伯克利分校，培养研究生的能力有所增加， 学生人数已增至176人。这项培训补助金是支助的一个重要组成部分， 学生提供的一揽子计划，因此，它变得越来越重要， 确保他们在当前的竞争环境中蓬勃发展。因为有资格 申请人远远超过可以进入该计划的学生人数，我们是 要求在下一个供资周期增加目前的 推荐17名学生。生物工程师整合原理的独特能力 从而跨越了基础科学和临床医学之间的差距 利用将在这一领域受过训练的个人置于推进翻译的关键点。 研究议程，最近已经强调了新的组织在美国国立卫生研究院。

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT This proposal aims to secure training grant stipends and associated support for students during their first two years in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Bioengineering. Over the past 31 years, the program in bioengineering has graduated a total of 357 Ph.D students. This support is the backbone for the unique UCSF/UC Berkeley structure, which requires that students have financial support during their first two years. These initial two years of preparation include intensive course work in engineering and the biomedical sciences, as well as three laboratory rotations, are essential to the students in selecting appropriate dissertation research topics. In later year the students receive financial support through their research mentor. The UCSF/UC Berkeley Program in Bioengineering bridges two leading University of California campuses that possess complementary strengths: UCSF is a leading Health Sciences institution and UC Berkeley’s Engineering School is a national leader in the physical sciences. The breadth and depth of the training environment offered to students is of an order larger than a single department could provide. Our faculty are based in 22 departments over two campuses and their laboratories include an array of state-of-the art facilities. An academic and intellectual environment fosters seamless interaction between physical and life sciences and that trains students to solve complex biological problems with an emphasis on translational research is in high demand. The UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Program in Bioengineering has an established record of such integration, and the breadth of opportunity for collaboration is one of the reasons that the program is structured to have students spend two years concentrating on a variety of laboratory rotations and course work prior to committing to their dissertation project. With the recent expansion of Bioengineering research and educational programs at UCSF and UC Berkeley, the capacity for training graduate students has increased and the size of the student body has grown to 176. This training grant is a critical component of the support package that students are offered, and it has therefore become increasingly important for ensuring that they flourish in the present competitive environment. Because qualified applicants far exceed the number of students that can be admitted into the program, we are requesting an increase in the number of slots during the next funding cycle from the current recommended level of 17 students. The unique ability for bioengineers to integrate principles from diverse fields and thereby span the gap between advances in basic science and clinical utilization places individuals trained in this field at a critical point in advancing a translational research agenda that has been recently highlighted by new organizations within the NIH.