Biology of Aging and Age-Related Diseases Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求继续支持威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（UW）于1991年发起的培训计划。该申请基于西澳大学在老龄化研究方面的卓越资源，包括来自西澳大学校园多个部门、学院和研究所的25位广受认可的教师导师。他们致力于为每位博士预科生（n=4，至少一个职位来支持医学博士/博士生）和博士后实习生（n=4）提供出色的培训经验。该计划的主要目标是选择有才华和专注的学员，在完成NIA支持的培训后，将在基础生物学或衰老转化研究方面追求成功的学术生涯。由NIA资助超过15年，目前的培训计划继续在其使命中脱颖而出，并朝着有利的方向发展。2005年5月，Asthana博士接管了该项目的领导，并与NIH路线图倡议一致，加强了受训者对转化和临床研究的访问，同时保持其主要关注衰老生物学研究。此外，针对项目最后一次竞争性审查中包含的意见，Asthana博士对项目进行了额外的改革，包括修订导师名单、加大对少数族裔学员的招募力度、改进正式的学员选拔流程、大力执行与参加研讨会和其他教育活动有关的政策、建立正式的流程来评估导师、学员和整个项目。并成立咨询委员会。此外，所有受训者继续被要求完成关于负责任的研究行为的课程。总的来说，目前的竞争更新申请是一个非常成功的t32培训计划，旨在利用西澳大学在老龄化研究方面的优势和学术优势，为博士生和博士后提供世界一流的跨学科培训，帮助他们在学术生涯中脱颖而出。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continued support for a Training Program initiated at the University of Wisconsin- Madison (UW) in 1991. The application builds upon the remarkable resources of the UW in aging research, and includes 25 widely acknowledged faculty mentors from several departments, schools and institutes from across the UW campus. They are committed to providing each predoctoral (n=4, at least one position to support MD/PhD student) and postdoctoral trainee (n=4) with an outstanding training experience. The major objective of the program is to select talented and focused trainees who, following completion of their NIA- supported training, will pursue successful academic careers in either the basic biology or translational research in aging. Funded by the NIA for over 15 years, the present Training Program continues to excel in its missions and evolve in a favorable direction. In May 2005, Dr. Asthana took over the leadership of the program and, consistent with the NIH Roadmap Initiative, enhanced access of trainees to translational and clinical research, while maintaining its major focus on the biology of aging research. Additionally, in response to comments included in the last competing review of the program, Dr. Asthana instituted additional programmatic changes, including revision of the mentors list, enhanced efforts to recruit minority trainees, improvement of a formal trainee selection process, vigorous enforcement of policies related to attendance in seminars and other educational activities, institution of a formal process to evaluate the mentors, trainees and the program as a whole, and creation of an Advisory Committee. Additionally, all trainees continue to be mandated to complete a course on Responsible Conduct of Research. Overall, the present competing renewal application of a highly successful T 32 Training Program proposes to build upon its strengths and academic excellence of UW in aging research, and provide world class interdisciplinary training to both predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows, helping them excel in their academic careers.