Comparative Biomedical Sciences Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：根据国家科学院的记录，并由国家卫生研究院国家研究资源中心优先考虑，在当代研究方面接受过充分培训的毕业兽医严重短缺。特别是，兽医需要通过跨学科研究、动物建模、生物安全、食品安全和公共政策为重要的公共卫生问题做出贡献。需要受过假说科学培训并熟悉尖端技术的兽医，以填补学术界和工业界的现有空缺，并在21世纪的兽医研究和指导中发挥领导作用。这笔培训赠款的目的是提供所需资源，以招聘和支持培训优秀的毕业兽医，他们将受益于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的集体研究企业。优秀的名册包括25名同意在拟议的计划中担任培训者的研究科学家。培训人员的研究重点有两个主要领域：1)传染病和免疫学；2)生理过程的细胞和分子调节。培训师名单包括在兽医学院、医学与公共卫生学院和农业与生命科学学院拥有终身教职的教师。三名训练员是灵长类中心的成员。所有培训者在校外研究资助、同行评审出版物以及培训研究生和博士后研究人员方面都有出色的记录。据推测，大多数学员将攻读比较生物医学研究生课程的博士学位。所有培训人员都是比较生物医学研究生项目和其他校园研究培训项目的成员。在25名培训师中，有13人同时获得了工商管理硕士和博士学位，因此，我们将为我们的培训计划招募的学生提供杰出的榜样。我们希望这个项目将为学员提供批判性思维、理论背景、现代实验室工具和沟通技能，以满足学术界和工业界的迫切需求，并在兽医研究方面担任领导职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As documented by the National Academies, and prioritized by the National Center of Research Resources of the NIH, there is a severe shortage of graduate veterinarians with adequate training in contemporary research. In particular, there is a need for veterinarians to contribute to important public health issues through interdisciplinary research, animal modeling, biosecurity, food safety, and public policy. Veterinarians trained in hypothesis-based science, and familiar with cutting-edge technologies, are needed to fill existing vacancies in academia and industry, and to assume leadership roles in veterinary research and instruction in the 21st century. The purpose of this training grant is to provide resources needed to recruit and support the training of outstanding graduate veterinarians who will benefit from the collective research enterprise at UW- Madison. An outstanding roster includes 25 research scientists who have agreed to be Trainers in the proposed program. There are two major areas of research focus among the Trainers: 1) Infectious Diseases and Immunology; and 2) Cellular and Molecular Regulation of Physiological Processes. The list of Trainers includes faculty whose tenure home is in the School of Veterinary Medicine, the School of Medicine and Public Health, and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Three trainers are members of the Primate Center. All trainers have outstanding records of extramural research funding, peer-reviewed publications, and training graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. It is assumed that most trainees will pursue the Ph.D. in the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program. All Trainers are members of the Comparative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, and other campus research training programs. Thirteen of the 25 Trainers have earned both the D.V.M. and Ph.D. degrees, and as such, provide outstanding role models for the students we will recruit to our training program. We expect that this program will provide trainees with the critical thinking, theoretical background, contemporary laboratory tools, and communication skills needed to address pressing needs in academia and industry, and assume leadership positions in veterinary research.