Pre-and Postdoctoral Training in the Rheumatic Diseases

描述（由申请人提供）：2002-2011年国家骨与关节十年计划设想在医生、卫生专业人员、患者和社区之间开展一系列活动，共同努力促进风湿性疾病治疗、预防措施和治愈方法的研究和开发。这是在人们越来越担心新培训的学术科学家人数不足的时候发生的，他们有能力取得重大进展并承担领导作用。因此，风湿病和临床免疫遗传学奖学金培训计划代表了德克萨斯大学休斯顿健康科学中心和德克萨斯儿童医院学术部门的杰出教师的合作努力，为优秀的学术预科和博士后研究员提供风湿病、遗传学和健康服务研究方面的强化基础或临床研究培训。一个富有成效的和合作的小组的高级科学家和医生科学家与互补的利益和表现出的承诺，导师和培训将担任导师教师两个博士前和四个博士后研究员。教师实验室提供流变学，遗传学和分子生物学的重要领域的研究经验。该计划提供基础和最先进学科的培训和教学指导，包括分子遗传学，生物化学，转基因技术，免疫学，基因组学和流行病学。受训人员还将受益于得克萨斯州医疗中心的大量资源和该地区大量的高危或受影响患者。在这个程序的所有申请人必须有一个坚定的承诺，在学术调查的职业生涯和培训计划的目标。所有受训人员都必须参加有关研究方法、实验设计、研究诚信和道德的具体课程，并鼓励不同背景的受训人员参加。因此，该计划将有助于新一代的学术风湿病学家，以解决风湿病，遗传学和健康服务研究中的挑战性问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The National Bone and Joint Decade, 2002-2011, envisions a series of initiatives among physicians, health professionals, patients, and communities, working together to promote research and development into therapies, preventative measures, and cures for the rheumatic diseases. This comes at a time when there is a growing concern that the number of newly trained academic scientists equipped to make major advances and to assume leadership roles will be inadequate. Accordingly, the Fellowship Training Program in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunogenetics represents a cooperative effort of accomplished faculty from the academic components of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Texas Children's Hospital to provide to outstanding, academically pre-and postdoctoral fellows intensive basic or clinical research training in rheumatology, genetics and health services research. A productive and collaborative group of senior scientists and physician-scientists with complementary interests and a demonstrated commitment to mentorship and training will serve as mentoring faculty to two predoctoral and four postdoctoral fellows. The faculty laboratories offer research experience in important areas of rheumatology, genetics and molecular biology. The program provides training and didactic instruction in fundamental and state-of-the-art disciplines, including molecular genetics, biochemistry, transgenic technologies, immunology, genomics and epidemiology. The trainees will also profit from the substantial resources of the Texas Medical Center and the enormous population of at-risk or affected patients in the area. All applicants in this program must have a firm commitment to a career in academic investigation and to the goals of the Training Program. All trainees will be required to attend specific courses addressing research methodology, experimental design, research integrity and ethics, and representation by trainees from diverse backgrounds will be encouraged. Thus this Program will contribute to a new generation of academic rheumatologists equipped to address challenging problems in rheumatology, genetics and health services research.