Pre-and Postdoctoral Training in the Rheumatic Diseases

描述(由申请者提供)：2002-2011年国家骨与关节十年设想了一系列倡议，在医生、卫生专业人员、患者和社区之间共同努力，促进风湿病的治疗、预防措施和治疗方面的研究和开发。与此同时，人们越来越担心，新培训的有能力取得重大进展并承担领导角色的学术科学家的数量将不足。因此，风湿学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优秀教师的合作努力，为杰出的、学术上的博士后和博士后研究员提供风湿学、遗传学和卫生服务研究方面的强化基础或临床研究培训。一个由资深科学家和内科科学家组成的富有成效和协作的小组具有互补的兴趣，并表现出对指导和培训的承诺，将作为指导教师，指导两名博士后研究员和四名博士后研究员。学院实验室提供风湿学、遗传学和分子生物学等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德克萨斯医疗中心的大量资源和该地区大量的高危或受影响的患者。该项目的所有申请者都必须坚定地致力于学术研究的事业和培训项目的目标。所有受训人员将被要求参加涉及研究方法、实验设计、研究诚信和道德的具体课程，并将鼓励来自不同背景的受训人员进行陈述。因此，该计划将有助于培养新一代学术风湿病专家，以解决风湿学、遗传学和卫生服务研究中具有挑战性的问题。

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.