Pre- and Postdoctoral Training Program in Immunology

描述（由申请人提供）：免疫学培训计划的目的是为学术界，工业界和政府研究实验室提供具有高度创造性和生产力的免疫学家，他们在免疫学方面受过广泛的培训，在其研究专业方面受过良好的培训，并在相关领域受过教育。这一目标将通过让博士前学生在罗切斯特大学医学中心（URMC）建立的跨部门研究生培训环境中遵循一套明确的特定项目课程作为免疫学课程的一部分来实现。环境将由互动式免疫学教师培养，致力于卓越的教学和合作研究，并致力于免疫学培训；学员及其导师积极开展免疫学研究项目；有组织的基础和高级讲座课程、一个附属的联合研讨会、一系列高级研讨会课程、一个正在进行的系列研讨会和一个杂志社；一个积极的研讨会系列，由数量惊人的学员组成。这将在一个具有病毒学、微生物学和疫苗生物学强有力的补充项目的部门内进行，这将有助于所接受培训的广度。在广泛的免疫学问题范围内的研究培训机会：B细胞生物学；T细胞生物学；炎症;肿瘤免疫;自身免疫;免疫进化；神经免疫系统相互作用将由经验丰富、才华横溢的初级培训教师提供给博士后和博士后研究员，这些教师拥有良好的校外资助记录和已建立的合作历史。他们将得到一群资源教员的协助，这些教员将在智力和技术上为免疫学相关项目作出贡献。我们会继续加强已取得成功的策略，招募和培养少数族裔和女性学生，并为所有学员提供必要的技能，使他们成为独立的科学家，并对研究的道德行为表示赞赏。这些训练有素的科学家将提供下一代的研究人员和教师，进一步推动基础科学和转化研究的进步，以改善这个国家的医疗保健。每5年培养8名博士预科生和1名博士后。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aims of the proposed Immunology Training Program is to provide academia, industry, and governmental research laboratories with highly creative and productive immunologists who are broadly trained in immunology, well trained in their research specialty and schooled in interrelated fields. This goal will be achieved by having the predoctoral students follow a defined set of program-specific courses as part of the Immunology Track set in the established interdepartmental graduate training milieu of the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC). The environment will be fostered by an interactive Immunology faculty dedicated to excellence in teaching and collaborative research and committed to immunology training; active immunological research programs of trainees and their mentors; structured lecture courses at the basic and advanced levels and an adjunct co-seminar, a series of advanced level seminar courses, a research-in-progress seminar series and a journal club; an active seminar series, and by a catalytic number of trainees. This will occur within a department with strong complementary programs in virology, microbiology and vaccine biology that will contribute to the breadth of training received. Research training opportunities in a wide variety of immunological problems within the purview of: B cell biology; T cell biology; inflammation; tumor immunity; autoimmunity; evolution of immunity; and neural-immune system interactions will be offered to pre- and post-doctoral fellows by an experienced, talented primary training faculty with strong records of extramural funding and an established history of collaboration. They will be assisted by a cadre of resource faculty that will contribute intellectually and technically to immunologically relevant projects. We will continue to strengthen our already successful strategies to recruit and nurture minority and women students and to provide all of the trainees with the essential skills to become independent scientists with an appreciation for the ethical conduct of research. These trained scientists will provide the next generation of researchers and teachers to further the advances in basic science and translational studies needed to improve healthcare in this country. Training support is requested for 8 predoctoral and 1 postdoctoral trainee in each of 5 years.