RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

波士顿儿童医院的发育内分泌学和代谢学培训补助金旨在 每年资助4名博士后研究员从事研究培训， 从事学术儿科内分泌学。学员进入该计划与医学博士，医学博士/博士或 偶尔博士学位，并从高素质的儿科内分泌学研究员中选出， 儿童医院31名培训人员包括15名儿科内分泌医生-科学家（包括12名 医学博士/博士），12名其他学科的医生科学家，4名博士科学家。儿童医院是主要的 培训地点，沿着与马萨诸塞州总医院的实验室，贝斯以色列女执事医疗 中心，布里格姆妇女医院，乔斯林糖尿病中心。研究重点的主要领域 这项培训补助金包括糖尿病、肥胖症 神经内分泌学、骨骼健康、内分泌干扰物、干细胞生物学、生物信息学和离子转运。 培训包括教学课程，包括定量方法和研究的道德行为， 以及一段密集的个人指导研究时期。预期的平均培训时间为两年 年在过去15年中，29名学员完成了T32补助金的培训，除2人外，其余均为 学术儿科机构的教师（1名教授，15名助理教授），2名在工业界，1名在 FDA。其中，9个有独立的NIH K奖，2个有一个或多个R 01。的纪录 出版是强大的。该计划利用了培训教师的科学专业知识的广度 在内分泌科，以及在更大的波士顿儿童医院社区， 哈佛周围的环境。 本案无关有一个合格的儿科医生，科学家，包括儿科内分泌学家， 今天的美国，在儿科治疗的科学突破的潜力的时候， 像肥胖和糖尿病这样的疾病是很好的。这些疾病对我们未来的健康是一个巨大的威胁。 国的孩子。我们希望我们的计划通过激发高度专业人士的早期职业生涯来满足这一需求。 一群积极的儿科内分泌学学员沉浸在一个严格和刺激的学习中， 环境

This training grant in developmental endocrinology and metabolism at Boston Children's Hospital intends to provide funding for 4 postdoctoral fellows per year to engage in research training leading to independent careers in academic pediatric endocrinology. Trainees enter the program with either the MD, MD/PhD or occasionally the PhD degree, and are selected from highly qualified pediatric endocrinology fellows at Children's Hospital. The 31 trainers include 15 pediatric endocrine physician-scientists (including 12 MD/PhDs), 12 physician-scientists of other disciplines, and 4 PhD scientists. Children's Hospital is the major training site, along with laboratories at Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Joslin Diabetes Center. The major areas of research emphasis in this training grant include clinical, translational and basic laboratory research in diabetes mellitus, obesity, neuroendocrinology, bone health, endocrine disruptors, stem cell biology, bioinformatics, and ion transport. Training consists of didactic courses, including in quantitative methods and the ethical conduct of research, and an intensive period of individually mentored research. The intended average duration of training is two years. Of the 29 trainees during the past 15 years who have completed training on this T32 grant, all but 2 are faculty in academic pediatric institutions (1 Professor, 15 Assistant Professors), 2 are in industry, and one is at the FDA. Of these, 9 have had independent NIH K awards, and 2 have one or more R01s. Their record of publication is strong. This program takes advantage of the breadth of scientific expertise of the training faculty within the Division of Endocrinology, as well as in the larger Boston Children's Hospital community and surrounding Harvard environment. Relevance. There is a great shortage of qualified pediatrician-scientists, including pediatric endocrinologists, in the United States today, at a time when the potential for scientific breakthroughs in the treatment of pediatric diseases like obesity and diabetes is great. These diseases are a great threat to the future health of our nation's children. We hope that our program addresses this need by inspiring the early careers of a highly motivated group of pediatric endocrinology trainees immersed in a rigorous and stimulating learning environment.