The Stanford Training Program in ELSI Research

 描述(由申请者提供)：我们对斯坦福大学拟议的研究培训计划的愿景是培养独立的ELSI学者，他们能够从广泛的概念框架和方法中，对遗传学和基因组学的伦理、法律、社会或政策影响进行严格的研究。拟议的计划将建立在作为ELSI研究卓越中心的ELSI研究培训十年历史上发展起来的合作、课程和经验的基础上。目前，斯坦福大学没有其他类似的培训项目，它将是美国为数不多的几个跨学科培训项目之一。计划：多学科交叉，为期3年的博士后和2年的博士后培训。将在5年内培训3名博士后和5名博士后研究员，任何时候最多培训5名博士后研究员。实习生：来自不同背景的博士和博士生，包括遗传学、生物科学和工程学、信息学、哲学、卫生服务研究和社会科学。导师：多导师模式，根据学员的个人需求和兴趣而量身定做。受训者被指派一名主要导师，负责学员计划的全面发展，并根据特定的职业、研究方法和主题领域的需求，指派二级导师。项目主任：Mildred Cho博士是遗传学和伦理学研究整合中心(CIRGE)ELSI研究培训项目的经验丰富的主任，CIRGE是由NHGRI资助的斯坦福ELSI研究卓越中心。计划教员：来自10个初级系的30名计划教员，代表进行ELSI相关研究的医学院、人文科学学院、法律学院和工程学院。学院核心成员Sandra Lee，PhD，David Magnus，PhD，Hank Greely，JD和Kelly Ormond，MS是经验丰富的培训项目导师和主任，他们的同事目前已经在ELSI培训、研究和伦理咨询活动中与项目主任Mildred Cho博士合作。教育计划：针对每个学员的个性化培训计划，包括生物伦理学和人类遗传学的核心课程，以及针对特定计划的ELSI研讨会，为拟议计划和其他培训计划的教职员工和受训人员提供丰富的跨学科互动。斯坦福大学的选修课种类繁多。还包括研究伦理咨询和临床伦理咨询的实践培训。研究计划：由受训者指导的研究将汇集来自不同学科的教师，通过实证或规范研究来确定和解决重要的和新的ELSI问题。学员有许多机会进行研究，作为正在进行的ELSI项目的一部分，以及开发新的想法，在专业会议上展示他们的研究成果，并在同行评议的期刊上发表文章。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our vision for the proposed research training program at Stanford University is to create independent ELSI scholars who can conduct rigorous research on ethical, legal, social or policy implications of genetics and genomics, drawing from a wide range of conceptual frameworks and methods. The proposed program will build on collaborations, curricula and experience developed over a ten-year history of ELSI research training as a Center for Excellence in ELSI Research. There is currently no other training program like this at Stanford University, and would represent one of a handful of such interdisciplinary programs in the country. Program: Multi- and interdisciplinary 3-year postdoctoral and 2-year predoctoral training. 3 postdoctoral and 5 predoctoral fellows will be trained over a 5-year period, with a maximum of 5 fellows at any given time. Trainees: PhDs and PhD candidates recruited from diverse backgrounds, including genetics, biological sciences and engineering, informatics, philosophy, health services research and social sciences. Mentors: Multiple mentorship model, tailored to individual trainee needs and interests. Trainees are assigned a primary mentor responsible for overall development of the trainee's plans, and secondary mentors assigned based on specific career, research methods, and topic area needs. Program Director: Mildred Cho, PhD is an experienced director of the ELSI research training program component of the Center for Integration of Research on Genetics and Ethics (CIRGE), the NHGRI-funded Center for Excellence in ELSI Research at Stanford. Program Faculty: 30 Program Faculty from 10 primary departments, representing Schools of Medicine, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Engineering who conduct ELSI-relevant research. Core Faculty members Sandra Lee, PhD, David Magnus, PhD, Hank Greely, JD and Kelly Ormond, MS are experienced mentors and directors of training programs in their own right, and colleagues who already currently collaborate with the Program Director Mildred Cho, PhD on ELSI training, research, and ethics consultation activities. Education Program: Individualized training program for each trainee that includes core courses in bioethics, and human genetics, as well as program-specific ELSI seminars, providing rich interdisciplinary interaction with faculty and trainees from the proposed program as well as from other training programs. Elective courses are available from a wide range of offerings at Stanford University. Practicum training in research ethics consultation and clinical ethics consultation is also included. Research Program: Mentored research by trainees will bring together faculty from diverse disciplines to identify and address important and novel ELSI issues through empirical or normative research. Trainees have numerous opportunities to conduct research as part of ongoing ELSI projects as well as to develop new ideas, and to present their research at professional meetings and publish in peer-reviewed journals.